VIKERs Play-and-Earn focus grants gamers a simple entry level into Bitcoin
Cell video games studio VIKER has efficiently closed its newest spherical of investments, this brings the overall raised to $4.1 million. Investments have been led by Animoca Manufacturers and noticed participation from Preliminary Capital and IVC.
London-based studio VIKER is understood for its cellular 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 start out incomes Bitcoin with no earlier information of blockchain and with out a anxious sign-up course of.
Animoca Manufacturers co-founder and govt chairman, Yat Siu commented on the funding saying “VIKER is making Play-and-Earn cellular video games genuinely shopper pleasant, which improves adoption and can assist to remodel the market. We’re proud to steer this funding and assist VIKER’s imaginative and prescient to assist onboard the subsequent one billion informal cellular avid gamers to blockchain”.
Funding for the long run
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 enjoying traditional cellular video games”.
Co-founder Dan Beasley acknowledged, “This newest funding alerts the subsequent part in VIKER’s international rollout plans, which incorporates funding new Play-and-Earn expertise, 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 cellular video games house, which incorporates an interoperable NFT sequence throughout the sport portfolio and the V-COIN foreign money. Extra particulars are stated to be coming within the coming weeks.