Ready Player Me raises US$13 million to expand the Meta Festival platform

Ready Player Me raises US$13 million to expand the Meta Festival platform

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Metaverse gaming platform Ready Player Me announced that it has received $13 million in Series A funding, led by the respective co-founders of Wise and Teleport, Taavet+Sten, with further participation by GitHub co-founders Tom Preston-Werner and Samsung Next, Konvoy Ventures and Gmoney.

The platform intends to use the funds to advance the ambition of avatar interoperability between the Metaverse world. This move supports the argument of multiple digital dimensions rather than a single model. A critic often criticizes Meta (previously known as Facebook) because it attempts to plunder or monopolize the meta-space space.

In addition, Ready Player Me will expand its workforce to more than 70 employees, and support its developer community by introducing new application programming interfaces and software development kits to enhance product offerings and enhance the front-end user experience .

Today, from Somnium Space to Verizon, more than 1,000 companies and organizations are using Ready Player Me’s avatar model. In addition, the platform has established partnerships with experienced commercial brands such as Warner Bros., Dior and New Balance.

Reveal its ambitions for the coming year in the official blog postalThe team’s marketing manager Daniel Marcinkowski pointed out that its goal is to “build the best avatar system for developers across the universe”, while CEO Timmu Tõke said:

“With this funding, we will further expand our partner network and will build monetization tools for developers to help them make money through avatar customization assets and NFT. Our goal is to become the default system of Metaverse.”

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As people have more and more speculations about the visual features of the Metaverse world, consumer privacy and safety, the evolution of social interaction, and other technical issues, there is a broader discussion about the impact of Web 3.0-Metaverse is important among them Component-has appeared on Twitter.

Technology giant Jack Dorsey believes that the current early construction Web 3.0 infrastructure is dominated by venture capital And limited partners who hold traditional Web 2.0 centralized intentions. “It will never escape their incentives,” he said of Web 3.0, and then realized that it “ultimately is a centralized entity with a different label.”

Dorsey received the enthusiastic participation of several cryptocurrency experts, advocates and commentators, including Balaji Srinivasan, Farokh, Tyler Winklevoss, and intermittent irony from Elon Musk, who announced his consistent support for Dogecoin.dog) Exceeds other crypto assets.

In late November this year, Dorsey left Twitter and started work on a decentralized trading project called tbDEX. At the same time, he promised to support the cultivation of the Bitcoin ecosystem to maximize its potential. In his opinion, it may even surpass the U.S. dollar.