Cartridge raises $7.5M in funding for onchain game development

Cartridge, an infrastructure provider for onchain games and autonomous worlds, announced today that it has raised $7.5M in its Series A funding round. Bitkraft Ventures led the round, with Fabric, Dune, StarkWare, Primitive and Ergodic participating. It also announced Dojo 1.0, its open-source developer toolset and framework for building provable games. To mark the occasion, Cartridge is supporting several onchain games releasing this summer built with Dojo, including Loot Survivor, Paved and Dope Wars.

Tarrence van As, Cartridge’s CEO, told GamesBeat in an interview that the company planned on using the funding to build out its team and grow its ecosystem. “We have Dojo, which is the framework for defining fully onchain games — games where the entire state and logic lives on the chain — we have part of the team maintaining that. We’re also continuing to develop two different products we’ve built around that ecosystem: The Cartridge Controller, which deals with player identity and reputation, and Slot, our execution layer.”