Binance Labs, Web3 odaklı fon havuzu için 500 milyon dolar (kabaca 3,875 rupi) toplayarak mega bir yatırım turunu kapattı. Bir grup küresel kurumsal yatırımcı bu tura katılarak Web3 endüstrisinin geleceğine ve ilerlemesine sermaye kattı. Bunlar, diğer firmalar arasında DST Global Partners, Breyer Capital ve Whampoa Group’u içerir. Para, kuluçka ve büyüme aşamalarında Web3 ve kripto girişimlerini finanse edecek. Gelişme, genel kripto endüstrisinin yavaşlamış bir piyasa hareketinden geçtiği bir zamanda geliyor.
Binance Labs’ın ebeveyni olan Binance Global, 2017’deki lansmanından bu yana dünyanın en büyük kripto borsaları arasında yerini aldı.
Şimdi platform, aşağıdakiler dahil olmak üzere Web3 öğelerinin kullanım durumlarını ve benimsenmesini hızlandırmak istiyor. [cryptocurrencies, non-fungible tokens (NFTs), as well as the metaverse via this funding being collected by Binance Labs.
“The goal of the newly closed investment fund is to discover and support projects and founders with the potential to build and to lead Web3 across decentralised finance (DeFi), NFTs, gaming, metaverse, social, and more,” Binance CEO Chengpeng Zhao said in a blog post.
Since its foundation in 2018, Binance Labs has already funded several Web3 projects it deemed promising amid the present hypercompetitive industrial climate.
Its portfolio includes industry-leading projects such as 1inch, Audius, Axie Infinity, Dune Analytics, Elrond, Injective, Polygon, Optimism, The Sandbox, and STEPN.
Meanwhile, institutional investments in the Web3 and crypto sectors are known to blow back life into them, especially when risks of recession have been axing their growth rates.
Venture capital giant Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) recently pledged $600 million (roughly Rs. 4,661 crore) to accelerate research and development in the Web3 and NFT gaming industry. The name of this fund pool is ‘Games Fund One’ and it will focus on uplifting game studios, gaming infrastructures providers, as well as consumer applications.
Adding to the list of hefty investments, earlier this month, former Binance executives Ling Zhang and Wayne Fu put together a funding of $100 million (roughly Rs. 776 crore), in order to further the sectors of cryptocurrencies and the metaverse.
In May, Dapper Labs unveiled a $725 million (roughly Rs. 5,600 crore) ecosystem fund to invest in applications and growth for its layer-1 blockchain ecosystem named Flow. The Web3 player powers NBA Top Shot, the popular blockchain-based trading card platform.
Earlier this year, crypto venture capitalist Dragonfly Capital pledged $650 million (roughly Rs. 4,975 crore) in funding, betting on the crypto industry, marking its largest such fund yet.