Puffverse secures $3 million in funding to assist transfer to Ronin

At the moment based mostly on BNB, the Puffverse universe is migrating its NFT characters and forthcoming recreation portfolio to Sky Mavis’ Ronin community. Alongside information of the transfer, the workforce has additionally introduced its raised $3 million in funding.

In a strategic transfer aiming to onboard extra web3 gamers, Puffverse has unveiled plans to launch its video games on Ronin, beginning with multiplayer royale occasion recreation PuffGo.

With a spread of themes and gameplay modes, PuffGo additionally options UGC capabilities, which lets customers craft their very own recreation maps. Sooner or later, the broader imaginative and prescient is to permit customers to create their very own metaverses. This may additional be enhanced by the mixing of AIGC (Synthetic Intelligence-Generated Content material), which lets customers management the AI instrument through textual content instructions.

“Transferring Puffverse to the Ronin blockchain was a strategic choice rooted in our dedication to creating our 3D universe extra accessible to each web2 and web3 customers. Our Puff characters’ compatibility with the beloved Axie group makes this migration a pure match. We’ve been impressed by Ronin’s assist throughout advertising and marketing, operations, and person acquisition and may’t wait to see the following stage of progress for Puffverse,” commented Puffverse co-founder and COO Lya L.

Certainly, the collaboration between Ronin developer Sky Mavis’ and Puffverse goes one step additional. Together with information of the migration, Puffverse additionally introduced it’s closed a $3 million funding spherical, during which Sky Mavis participated. Led by Animoca Manufacturers, different buyers within the spherical included Arcane Group, Spartan Group, Foresight Ventures, HashKey Capital, and Xu Household Workplace.

Animoca Manufacturers co-founder and govt chairman Yat Siu commented, “Puffverse has loved a powerful 12 months with the launch of Puff Soccer NFTs and IGO Factors in PuffGo. The Ronin chain is rising as one of many premier chains for gaming, and is an effective option to take Puffverse to the following stage.” 

“Celebration video games, with their fast gameplay loops and dynamic social options might be an excellent match for elevation through web3 mechanics. The Puffverse workforce additionally understands the East Asia and China market, which we imagine is ripe for Ronin to broaden into,” added Sky Mavis CEO and co-founder Trung Nguyen.

Extra typically, Sky Mavis lately introduced the Ragnarok On-line universe is becoming a member of its Ronin ecosystem, beginning with the launch of MMORPG Ragnarok: Monster World. In February 2024, the corporate additionally revealed that GMonsters is about to convey three video games from the Combat League franchise to Ronin. Along with its native Axie Infinity video games, Ronin is now additionally powering the preferred blockchain recreation Pixels, in addition to newer releases together with Apeiron, Wild Forest, The Machines Area and Kaidro.

On April twenty ninth, a snapshot of all Puff NFTs on the BNB Chain shall be taken, adopted by the migration and airdrop of the NFTs to the corresponding addresses on Ronin. Puffverse may also launch its token and an unique NFT assortment on Ronin later in 2024.

You will discover out extra through the Puffverse web site.