Why Brands Need To Stop Seeing The LGBTQ Community As One Tick Box

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – JUNE 25: A man dances in the annual LGBTQI Pride Parade on June 25, 2017 in San … [+] Francisco, California. The LGBT community descended on Market Street for the 47th ...

Blockchain Platform Profila Rebuilds Trust Between People and Brands

People will be rewarded for sharing their personal data, and brands will get a new channel to reach their audiences directly. The startup announced a token sale that starts in March 2022, with valuabl...

Vortex Brands Purchases Additional 8 S19j Pros Crypto Mining Machines

Vortex Brands Co, a Bitcoin mining firm in the US, announced the purchase of additional 19j Pro machines for its Bitcoin mining operations. The crypto company therefore increases the total number of i...

Blockchain-enabled digital fashion creates new business models for brands

Nonfungible tokens (NFT) may be disrupting the trillion-dollar fashion industry, but NFTs are just one piece of a much larger puzzle that is revolutionizing this sector. Rather, blockchain technology ...

Blockchain metaverse ecosystems gain traction as brands create digital experiences

Billion-dollar companies are taking the Metaverse by storm as consumers have shown heightened interest in virtual, interactive, three-dimensional experiences that take place online.  While the “Metave...

Animoca Brands doubles valuation to $5B, OpenSea tops $3.5B in Jan volume, Microsoft eyes metaverse gaming: Hodler’s Digest, Jan 16-22

Coming every Saturday, Hodler’s Digest will help you track every single important news story that happened this week. The best (and worst) quotes, adoption and regulation highlights, leading coins, pr...

Walmart, Tempur-Pedic, and AT&T Experience Recognized For Store Design Excellence

Customers seeking a highly engaging experience that artfully integrates both digital and physical … [+] components will likely be wowed by the NYC Tempur-Pedic store. The store is the recipient ...

Animoca Brands Leads $6.5M Round for Decentralized Exchange SOMA Finance

SOMA Finance, a decentralized exchange for trading digital assets and compliant digital securities, has completed a $6.5 million seed round led by blockchain gaming and open metaverse company Animoca ...

Blockchain Gaming Company Animoca Brands Raises $360 Million In Quest To Build ‘The Open Metaverse’

With the network effect of Web 3.0, Animoca Brands cofounder and executive chairman Yat Siu isn’t betting against his competitors. He’s counting on them. Dickson Lee/South China Morning Po...

Animoca Brands Receives $358M Boost, the Gaming Firm Goes on Acquisition Rampage

Money flow from investors into blockchain-based companies is undoubtedly a trend we would not see its end this year, as one of the most prominent gaming firms, Animoca Brands, has raised $358.88 milli...

Animoca Brands’ Valuation Surges to $5.5 Billion With Fresh $360 Million Funding

Animoca Brands has raised $360 million in a fresh round of funding. As such, the valuation of the Hong Kong-based company has doubled since October 2021 to $5.5 billion. The latest round of investment...

Blockchain Firm Animoca Brands Raises $358 Million to Enhance Web3 and the Metaverse – Finance Bitcoin News

Animoca Brands has announced the blockchain and cryptocurrency-focused firm has raised $358.8 million to bolster the non-fungible token (NFT) industry and “build the open metaverse.” The capital raise...

NFT Gaming Investor Animoca Brands Valued Above $5B After $359M Raise

In brief Animoca Brands, an investor in metaverse startups, has raised nearly $359 million. The firm is now valued above $5 billion, up from $2.2 billion in October. Animoca Brands, a leading investor...

Animoca Brands raises $358 million to grow the open metaverse

In the latest round of funding, Australian metaverse company Animoca Brands raises over $358 million, 358,888,888 to be exact – 8 being considered a lucky number in many parts of Asia and the crypto c...

Animoca Brands Raises US$359 Million at US$5B Valuation to Grow the Open Metaverse – Trustnodes

Melbourne, Australia, 18 January 2022 — Animoca Brands, the company driving digital property rights via NFTs and gaming to build the open metaverse, today announced that it has completed a capital rai...

Metaverse startup Animoca Brands hits valuation of over $5B

Animoca Brands, an Australia-based metaverse startup focused on NFTs and gaming, has raised $358.88 million in new funding round and is now valued at over $5 billion. Liberty City Ventures led the rou...

Animoca Brands Leads $8M Fundraising Round for NFT Platform Built on Solana

Burnt Finance, a protocol built on Solana, has raised $8 million in a funding round led by Animoca Brands. It also launched its non-fungible token (NFT) platform. The capital will go toward adding sta...

Rolls-Royce, Bentley, BMW Sales Surge as Cheaper Brands Lag Behind

BERLIN—A surge in luxury-car sales and the shifting of scarce semiconductors to the most profitable vehicles helped many auto makers achieve robust profits last year, even as sales of mainstream vehic...

An Avalanche Of Returns Test Brands’ Sustainability Creds

Young woman returning purchased apparel to a retail store Shutterstock.com It would appear that retailers booked a robust 2021 holiday season, except that the new year brings with it an old problem th...

Fan Controlled Football Raises $40 Million Series A Led by Animoca Brands and Delphi Digital

January 12, 2022 – Los Angeles, California Funding to propel continued growth and expansion of FCF for seasons version two and version three. Bored Ape Yacht Club and Gutter Cat Gang communities join ...

Kingdom Karnage raises $2M from Animoca Brands, Enjin and DFG to boost GameFi features

Kepithor Studios has announced a set of innovative new GameFi mechanics coming to its turn-based NFT battle game, Kingdom Karnage. The game will introduce new play-to-earn opportunities for its player...

Animoca Brands Subsidiary Loses $18 Million in a Hot Wallet Hack

Animoca Brands subsidiary, Lympo, an NFT platform that specializes in the minting of sports-related collectibles, has lost $18 million to a hack of several of its hot wallets. According to a Medium po...

Animoca Brands’ Lympo NFT platform hacked for $18.7 million

Sports NFT minting platform and Animoca Brands subsidiary Lympo suffered from a hot wallet security breach and lost 165.2 million LMT tokens worth $18.7 million at the time of the hack. A short Medium...

DeVere Group CEO Brands Crypto Market Correction a Knee-Jerk Sell-Off, Predicts Bitcoin Will ‘Robustly Rebound’

A financial institution with over $10 billion in assets under management is confident that cryptocurrencies will thrive in the long term despite weeks of volatility in the markets. In a new report, th...

DAI co-founder brands UST, MMT Solid Ponzis that’ll collapse

TL: DR Breakdown Rune Christensen, a co-founder at Maker, the parent company behind stable coin DAI, has openly challenged two competitors. Christensen claimed that UST and MIM Stablecoins could colla...

The New Model For Legacy Food Brands Is Flawed

“The biggest surprise this year is that consumption of packaged foods remained elevated despite mobility returning and food-service establishments regaining customers.” that according to Robert Moskow...

The biggest consumer brands that engaged with crypto in 2021

2021 was an exciting year for crypto, with several well-known — some unexpected — brands entering the crypto sector. Here’s looking at you, Charmin, and your toilet paper nonfungible tokens (NFTs). Th...

NFT Analytics Platform Cryptoslam Raises $9M From Animoca Brands, Mark Cuban, Sound Ventures – Finance Bitcoin News

On Wednesday, the non-fungible token (NFT) data and analytics platform Cryptoslam raised $9 million in a capital funding round led by Animoca Brands. Cryptoslam detailed that Mark Cuban participated i...

Conagra Brands CEO says inflation won’t go away even after Covid omicron wave passes

Conagra Brands CEO Sean Connolly told CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Thursday that the company is prepared for inflationary pressures to stick around well after the Covid omicron wave subsides. “It&...

Coca-Cola and Constellation Brands team up to create alcoholic Fresca cocktails

Bottles of Coca-Cola Co. Fresca brand soda move along a conveyor belt at the Swire Coca-Cola bottling plant in West Valley City, Utah, U.S., on Friday, April 19, 2019. George Frey | Bloomberg | Getty ...

CryptoSlam Nets $9 Million in Seed Round Led by Animoca Brands

The announcement, made on Jan. 5, stated that the round was led by Hong Kong-based game software and venture capital company Animoca Brands. CryptoSlam is a provider of data and transparency for the N...

CryptoSlam Raises $9 Million Strategic Seed From Animoca Brands

OKEx Blockdream Ventures, Mark Cuban, Others OVERLAND PARK, Kan.,– CryptoSlam, a leading provider of data and transparency for the NFT industry, today announced the close of an oversubscribed $9 milli...