Ultiverse received a $5 million investment from Binance. The metaverse game business previously closed a $4.5 million seed round a week ago. Binance Labs, Binance’s venture capital arm and innovation incubator, revealed the prior seed investment in a blog post on March 18.
DeFiance Capital co-led the funding, with participation from Three Arrows Capital and SkyVision Capital. Ultiverse’s MXS governance token was used to raise the first $4.5 million. However, the $5 million from Binance will be put in Ultiverse’s equity, according to the two companies.
According to Nicole Zhang, head of Binance Labs, additional investments were made to develop a relationship between the companies and allow Binance to have a role in the team’s future direction.
The profits from the initial round of fundraising, according to Binance Labs, would be used to help build a social gaming metaverse using BNB Chain, Binance’s blockchain.
According to Zhang, BNB Chain is the only ecosystem capable of sustaining large-scale gaming enterprises. Under the supervision of CEO Frank Ma, more than 100 staff are now working on Ultiverse’s games. Endless Loop, the startup’s first game, will be a 3D massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) with play-to-earn capabilities, set to launch in the first quarter of 2023.
Binance just completed the acquisition of a business license in Dubai.
Binance, the world’s largest crypto-currency exchange by trading volume, has received a license from Dubai’s Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA) to undertake specific commercial operations in the region, according to Blockchain.News.
Last week, Dubai passed its first law governing virtual assets and established VARA as a market regulator to regulate the sector, giving Binance the green light.
The major exchange said in a statement “Pre-selected investors and professional financial service providers will be able to purchase limited products and services from the exchange. To enable access to the retail market, all VARA-licensed service providers will be monitored gradually.”
For MetaNews.