The initial $1.6 million fundraising round saw strong support from prominent venture capitalists and angel investors, underscoring the market’s confidence in Sekuya’s vision.

The Rise of Anime Gaming

The anime gaming market is experiencing substantial growth globally, with particularly strong momentum in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region. According to industry reports, the global anime market size was valued at $24.23 billion in 2022 and is projected to reach $43.73 billion by 2028, growing at a CAGR of 9.8%. The APAC region, home to a massive base of anime enthusiasts and gamers, is a key driver of this growth, making it an ideal environment for innovative platforms like Sekuya to thrive.

IDO Sold Out in 2 Minutes

Sekuya’s recent Initial DEX Offering (IDO) on SingularityDAO further demonstrated the platform’s appeal and market potential, selling out within an astonishing two minutes and raising $691,000 USDC. This rapid sell-out highlights the robust demand and strong market interest in Sekuya’s unique approach to combining immersive anime gaming experiences with a comprehensive lifestyle loyalty program.

Joshua Budiman, CEO of Sekuya, expressed his excitement: “We are thrilled by the incredible response to our IDO on SingularityDAO. Selling out within two minutes is a testament to the strong support and belief in Sekuya’s vision. This achievement marks a significant step forward in our journey to revolutionize the anime gaming and lifestyle loyalty sectors.”

CEX Listing on 21st May 2024

Looking ahead, Sekuya is preparing for its next major milestone: listing on two of the world’s top cryptocurrency exchanges, Gate and MEXC, along with Uniswap on decentralized exchange. The listings, scheduled for May 21, 2024, at 14:00 UTC, will provide greater accessibility and liquidity for Sekuya’s token, allowing a broader audience to participate in its ecosystem. These strategic moves aim to position Sekuya as a leader in the burgeoning anime gaming market.

With a robust financial backing of $2.2 million, Sekuya is positioned to redefine the intersection of gaming and lifestyle, providing users with compelling content and rewarding experiences. This funding will empower Sekuya to expedite its development, broaden its user base, and establish strategic partnerships to enrich its offerings and strengthen its market position.

Supporting Sport Tourism in Indonesia with Radical Motorsport

In an exciting development promoting sport tourism, Sekuya has partnered with Radical Motorsport to unveil the world’s first Web3 anime race car. This collaboration aims to elevate Mandalika as a sport tourism hotspot through innovative and culturally rich attractions. During the Elite Showcase in ICE BSD, Radical Motorsport debuted in the Indonesian automotive exhibition by making the collaboration announcement.

About Sekuya

Headquartered in Singapore, Sekuya develops video games. Born from a community, Sekuya aims to revolutionize the gaming landscape with a community-driven approach in all new anime epic fantasy universe.

Sekuya’s flagship project, Sekuya Multiverse, an award-winning start-up project, combines 2 of the world’s most popular gaming genres: MOBA + RPG, promising a new gaming experience for global players of both genres.

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DWF Labs is the investment arm of Digital Wave Finance (DWF), a leading high-frequency trading platform. That trades spot and derivatives in over 40 crypto exchanges. As a digital asset multi-stage web3 multi-product ecosystem. DWF Labs provides consulting, cybersecurity, smart contract audit process, debt-financing, treasury management and connections. Aside from different trading solutions such as token listing, over-the-counter (OTC) trading, and liquidity support for different clients. This is possible through their partners in different verticals.

As it seeks to support the founders who will build the future of web3. DWF Labs has supported over 50 web3 projects. And continues to collaborate with top crypto exchanges such as Binance, ByBit and many more.

“We have committed to support YGG as part of our vision towards a blockchain-based economy through web3,” said Andrei Grachev, Managing Partner at DWF Labs. “They are confident that through this token purchase, YGG will continue to innovate and grow the blockchain gaming space as we provide support through this long-term partnership.”

“We believe that blockchain has the potential to transform the gaming industry by enabling players to own their own assets and earn rewards,” Andrei added. “Through YGG’s partnerships with NFT games and ecosystems like Axie Infinity, The Sandbox and League of Kingdoms, the guild is at the forefront of blockchain-based game economies. Our goal is to support YGG and help the guild expand its offerings such as the Guild Advancement Program to connect even more players and provide them with an opportunity to participate in a decentralized gaming ecosystem and get rewarded from their gaming activities.”

Also participating in the token purchase was a16z Crypto, reaffirming its support in decentralizing YGG. And providing equal web3 opportunities to communities worldwide. As one of the earliest supporters of YGG, a16z led the guild’s US$4.6 million funding round in August 2021.

Other participants in the recent token purchase include Galaxy Interactive, Sangha Capital Fund, Sanctor Capital, and angel investor, David Lee. A former corporate attorney at Google, Lee currently holds the position of Executive Vice President at Samsung Electronics and is Head of Samsung Next.

As a key milestone on its path to decentralization, YGG established itself as a Swiss association in 2022. To employ a flexible, recognized and nonprofit legal structure that will cultivate a decentralized future for the guild. YGG transitioned into the Swiss association legal framework as it offers more clarity and validity for the guild. To signify that anyone who holds a YGG token is a member of the YGG association, allowing for meaningful participation. Token holders receive limited liability protection by virtue of being a member and have the power to vote on governance.

“The token purchase signals the confidence of our partners in YGG’s mission of empowering gamers through web3 gaming,” said YGG co-founder Gabby Dizon. “The purchase will support the progress of the guild’s initiatives as it aims to provide the web3 community with valuable products and experiences. With the continued support of our partners, YGG remains confident in its ability to drive meaningful impact and shape the future of the web3 gaming industry.”

About Yield Guild Games (YGG)

Yield Guild Games (YGG) is a Play To Earn guild that brings players together to earn via NFT games. They are the settlers of the Metaverse. YGG is the world’s original and largest Blockchain Gaming Guild. With deep expertise in Web3 communities, game operations, and product development. YGG and its global network of subDAOs represent an ecosystem of hundreds of thousands of crypto gamers around the world.

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About DWF Labs

DWF Labs seeks to invest and support bold founders who want to build the future of Web3. They offer consulting, liquidity provision, cybersecurity, smart contract audit processes. Debt-financing, treasury management and connections with their numerous partners across different verticals.

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Many investors bring infrastructure and gaming ecosystem synergies to CARV, especially across the US, Europe, LATAM, and Southeast Asia markets.

The Los Angeles-based company set out with a mission to empower gamers with data sovereignty via gaming credentials. 

“Gamer activities span across devices, platforms, and into real life. However, their time, effort, and money spent remain data points scattered across isolated ecosystems, with limited value to gamers.” Says Victor Yu, CARV’s co-founder and COO. “By creating the infrastructure to piece these breadcrumbs together, we are unlocking tremendous opportunities in how gamers interact in the gaming universe.”

Gamers now own and self-sovereign their data, with which they can achieve their hard-earned achievements and be recognized for community contribution on CARV.IO. Moreover, gamers can explore the semantic discovery of friends & games, and unlock credential-gated gaming premiums and governance privileges based on their past gaming experience.

CARV is also building data infrastructure and analytics to empower game studios to accurately recognize gamer activities, capture an insight-driven understanding of the user base, and reach the desired group of users effectively. 

“There is a paradigm shift in how games think about user acquisition, business model, and in-game economy design. With the shift comes challenges to games’ sustainability. CARV is uniquely positioned to work with game partners to address these challenges.” comments Victor.

CARV launched its Alpha version in May 2022 after graduating from UPenn Wharton’s Cypher Blockchain Accelerator. Since then, CARV has integrated with more than 20 blockchains and enabled more than 300K registered users to view their all-in-one achievement display. A credential-based governance experiment is CARV’s Guardian Program, where more than 2000 community members applied to contribute towards community management and content creation. CARV has also worked with more than 100 game studios. These game partners include triple-A and innovative games globally, such as Illuvium, Apeiron, Splinterlands, Genopets, Delysium, Drawshop Kingdom, Big Time, Ultiverse, and more.

Amongst downturns in macroeconomic conditions and the crypto market, the timing of this round speaks volumes to investors’ conviction in CARV’s vision and execution capability. 

“With the belief that gaming will be the most important segment track for linking traditional users and enthusiasts in the web3 world, we are very optimistic about the future market of web3 gaming.” Comments LI Wei, partner at Vertex, the venture fund which invested in Binance in 2018. “Besides game studios, we focus on the infrastructure of web3 games, particularly on gaming identity platforms. Therefore, we deeply believe that CARV has the potential to be the fast-growing head player in this section.”

With the new funding, CARV will onboard additional talents and continue to build the interoperable credential infrastructure alongside ecosystem partners. 

CARV states that “the open infrastructure that encourages collaboration is important. But, more importantly, as an early mover, it is also our onerous to create world-class applications, tools, and support communities for gamers and games alike, to educate and onramp more users in an enjoyable, seamless way.” 

CARV’s team is situated in Silicon Valley, Los Angeles, and Singapore, tapping into each region’s tremendous engineering, product development, and game operations talent pool. Many of CARV’s team come from product-first tech and gaming companies like Google, Twitter, TikTok, Reddit, dLive.tv, Facebook, Microsoft, Tencent, and Garena.

CARV is continuously building the gaming space with partners. Recently, CARV has formed collaborations with 30+ games and ecosystem partners within BNBChain and kicked off a mega campaign — BNBChain Game CARVnival from Nov 22 to Dec 9, consisting of tournaments, game nights, insightful AMAs and various in-game quests with rich rewards supported by partners. Join to win 5,500 BUSD rewards, 20,000 $ARC, and more in-game premiums.

About CARV

CARV is building an interoperable credential infrastructure focused on gaming, enabling gamers with an all-in-one achievement display, semantic friend and game recommendations, and access to credential-gated gaming premiums. At the same time, CARV empowers games to recognize gamer activities, capture insights to better serve gamer base, and reach the desired group of gamers.

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This latest round was led by the accelerator and venture capital fund ABCDE, founded by Huobi co-founder Du Jun and BMAN, as well as being co-led by Hash Global and Liang Xinjun. 0xScope has also garnered support from Bonfire Union, Mask Network fund, as well as BODL Ventures, an early-stage venture firm established by former editor-in-chief of ChainNews, Liu Feng.

“It is great to have this vote of confidence as well as the capital commitment from some of the most respected investors in Web3, to keep delivering great products and services as we expand our business over the long term.” said the CEO of 0xScope.

0xScope offers an innovative solution to explore jointly data originating from Web2 and Web3 in a single product. This allows translating Web3 scattered data into a well-organized knowledge graph; based on this new data layer created by 0xScope, a large number of data applications can be developed.

Watchers is the first product powered by 0xScope’s, it allows users access to enhanced due diligence, powerful address clustering tools, transaction monitoring, live event alerts, as well as financial risk control.

Recently, 0xScope has released an enterprise business-to-business service that can be integrated into any company to further enhance its current services.

In a short period of time, 0xScope has managed to generate 97,356,000 unique entities, classified 1,429,000 addresses with labels, classify 5,089,000 behavioral labels, 195,000 distinct tokens, as well as 11,000 protocols and 50,910,000 different contracts.

0xScope offers the following advantages to its users:

• Knowledge graph

Complete database and knowledge graph data structure for indexers to utilize data efficiently and cost-effectively.

• Entity paradigm shift

0xScope wants to shift the focus of attention from looking at a single address. To understanding what is the Entity behind it and to standardize this process.

• Address relation deep-scan capacity

Complete risk address tags and address clustering algorithms will help to expand the scope and quality of financial risk control in the industry: enhanced due diligence, anti-money laundry practices, and in-depth tracking. These characteristics will lead to positive feedback and increase the quality of the Web3 product experience. As elevated the security standards in the overall industry.

The seed funding will enable 0xScope to scale up its operations, form vast ecosystem enterprises and communities, enhance engineering infrastructure. As well as expand its reach into Southeast Asia, North America, Europe, South Korea, and Japan.

The company’s leadership also shared its progress on the upcoming launch of a series of partnerships. With more details to come in late September.

“We believe 0xScope is one of the most important pioneers for the upcoming paradigm changes in Web3. We sincerely look forward to cooperating and creating a new data layer for the benefit of all.” said the CEO of 0xScope.

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