{"id":47423,"date":"2021-08-09T16:35:22","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T13:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=47423"},"modified":"2025-09-01T21:18:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T18:18:10","slug":"gaming-crypto-firms-raise-476m-in-the-first-half-of-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/gaming-crypto-firms-raise-476m-in-the-first-half-of-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaming crypto firms raise $476m in the first half of 2021."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the first half of 2021, gaming blockchain companies attracted $476 million. This is according to a report by venture-capital data aggregator <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/h6e9hpp0yzd8bsw\/InvestGame%20Gaming%20Deals%20Activity%20Report%20H1%E2%80%9921.pdf?dl=0\">InvestGame<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to analysts, crypto firms accounted for 0.9% of total funding for the gaming industry, which amounted to $50.2 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Compared with 2020, the number of investment rounds by blockchain companies in this sector doubled, from 12 to 24 deals.<\/p>\n<p>Three firms attracted 73% of the total figure of $476 million:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Forte \u2014 $185 million;<\/li>\n<li>Animoca Brands \u2014 $89 million;<\/li>\n<li>Mythical Games \u2014 $75 million.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In August, the daily audience of the NFT game Axie Infinity <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/axie-infinitys-daily-active-audience-surpasses-1-million\">surpassed<\/a> one million users. In May, billionaire Mark Cuban <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/mark-cuban-backs-axie-infinity-nft-game-in-funding-round\">supported<\/a> the project in a Series A funding round worth $7.5 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog&#8217;s bitcoin news in our <a href=\"\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"\u201c_blank\u201d\" rel=\"\u201cnofollow\u201d noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the first half of 2021, gaming blockchain companies attracted $476 million, according to InvestGame.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47424,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1155,1133],"class_list":["post-47423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-games-and-gamefi","tag-venture-investments"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"15","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47425,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47423\/revisions\/47425"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}