Posted 9/16/2023, 7:15:50 PM

Animoca's Darewise to Launch Metaverse Token on Bitcoin via Ordinals, Taps Horizen for Expertise

Animoca Brands subsidiary Darewise Entertainment plans to launch a metaverse token on Bitcoin via Ordinals protocol
Token will power an ecosystem around Life Beyond, an upcoming metaverse game with NFTs
Collaboration with Horizen Labs, who helped develop ApeCoin
Animoca CEO excited to pioneer Bitcoin Ordinals, calling it continuous innovation
Ordinals let users create BRC-20 tokens and NFT-like assets on Bitcoin blockchain
Darewise CEO sees potential for Bitcoin to be more than just a store of value
Animoca is a major metaverse investor with a $5.9B valuation, also publishes NFT games
New token separate from Animoca's Mocaverse metaverse project

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