Animoca Brands wants to be the leader in blockchain gaming.
Animoca Brands wants to be the leader in blockchain gaming.
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Binance Smart Chain and Animoca Brands launch $200M investment program for blockchain games

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Binance Smart Chain and Animoca Brands have partnered to launch a $200 million investment program to accelerate and incubate early crypto gaming startups. The goal is to increase mainstream adoption of blockchain tech significantly.

The new investment program will support GameFi (decentralized game finance) projects. Blockchain games, such as those that use cryptocurrency or nonfungible tokens (NFTs), have taken off this year as the crypto and gaming booms intersect. This boom helped Animoca Brands raise multiple rounds, including a recent $65 million round at a $2.2 billion valuation.

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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.