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Acid Labs raises $8M to build viral Web3 games on social chat platforms

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 2 min

Acid Labs has raised $8 million in funding for its instantly playable Web3 games on social messaging platforms.

The company’s mission is to build viral instant games where people already connect. The studio already has a breakout hit in Boinkers.io, which has 11.5 million monthly players on Telegram. The company says that shows the massive potential of chat-integrated gaming.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.