VIKERs Play-and-Earn focus grants gamers a simple entry level into Bitcoin
Cellular video games studio VIKER has efficiently closed its newest spherical of investments, this brings the full raised to $4.1 million. Investments had been led by Animoca Manufacturers and noticed participation from Preliminary Capital and IVC.
London-based studio VIKER is understood for its cell Play-and-Earn titles resembling Solitaire and Who Needs To Be A Millionaire. These titles combine crypto rewards for gamers in a pleasant method that makes it straightforward for gamers to begin incomes Bitcoin with no earlier information of blockchain and with no worrying sign-up course of.
Animoca Manufacturers co-founder and govt chairman, Yat Siu commented on the funding saying “VIKER is making Play-and-Earn cell video games genuinely shopper pleasant, which improves adoption and can assist to rework the market. We’re proud to guide this funding and help VIKER’s imaginative and prescient to assist onboard the subsequent one billion informal cell players to blockchain”.
Funding for the longer term
VIKER founder Ben Cusack additionally commented noting that VIKER’s portfolio of video games has seen over 80 million transactions throughout 100 international locations, “enabling gamers to earn Bitcoin by taking part in traditional cell video games”.
Co-founder Dan Beasley acknowledged, “This newest funding indicators the subsequent part in VIKER’s world rollout plans, which incorporates funding new Play-and-Earn know-how, buying new licensing alternatives, rising the participant base, and investing in new studio expertise”.
VIKER intends to introduce two new initiatives this 12 months for the Play-and-Earn cell video games house, which incorporates an interoperable NFT collection throughout the sport portfolio and the V-COIN forex. Extra particulars are stated to be coming within the coming weeks.
