{"id":60672,"date":"2022-04-27T11:17:55","date_gmt":"2022-04-27T08:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=60672"},"modified":"2025-09-05T04:41:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T01:41:32","slug":"moonbirds-nft-creators-raise-10m-from-reddit-co-founder-alexis-ohanian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/moonbirds-nft-creators-raise-10m-from-reddit-co-founder-alexis-ohanian\/","title":{"rendered":"Moonbirds NFT creators raise $10m from Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Moonbirds NFT collection&#8217;s backing startup Proof raised $10 million from Seven Seven Six \u2014 the venture capital firm co-founded by Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We&#8217;re thrilled to announce $10M in funding led by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/alexisohanian?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@alexisohanian<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sevensevensix?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SevenSevenSix<\/a> (w\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/trueventures?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@trueventures<\/a> participating as well). Thrilled to build the future of Web3 w\/ the deep product and community mind of Alexis. Details here: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RSFAXoNOLP\">https:\/\/t.co\/RSFAXoNOLP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Moonbirds (@moonbirds) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/moonbirds\/status\/1518655410495918080?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 25, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The startup was founded by Kevin Rose, a partner at True Ventures. True Ventures also participated in the funding round, but it was Seven Seven Six that invested the $10 million, he noted.<\/p>\n<p>Rose noted that collaboration with Ohanian will allow the project to issue additional non-fungible tokens alongside Web 3.0 content creation, launching a conference and other initiatives.<\/p>\n<p>Previously Proof launched PROOF Collective \u2014 a closed community with more than 1,000 members who gained access to NFT drops and other privileges. The tokens in the collection were sold via a Dutch auction format \u2014 their price started at 5 ETH.<\/p>\n<p>As of writing, the cheapest of the <a href=\"https:\/\/opensea.io\/collection\/proof-collective\">listed<\/a> tokens on the OpenSea marketplace can be bought for 100 ETH ($285 884 at the current rate).<\/p>\n<p>Another of the startup&#8217;s collections\u2014the Moonbirds\u2014launched on April 16. The mint price for Proof&#8217;s NFT <a href=\"https:\/\/moonbirds.xyz\/\">was<\/a> 2,5 ETH per unit. The minimum <a href=\"https:\/\/opensea.io\/collection\/proof-moonbirds\">price<\/a> of a token from the collection is 27,75 ETH.<\/p>\n<p>As reported, The Sandbox metaverse project bought Moonbird #2642 <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/the-sandbox-buys-moonbirds-nft-for-1-million\">for 350 ETH<\/a> (more than $1 million at the time of the deal).<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 the full news feed, <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news, infographics and opinions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Moonbirds NFT collection&#8217;s backing startup Proof raised $10 million from Seven Seven Six, the venture capital firm co-founded by Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60673,"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":[1213,1133],"class_list":["post-60672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-nft","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\/60672","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=60672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60674,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60672\/revisions\/60674"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}