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Solana game studio Mirror World raises $12 million in funding — TradingView News
Solana gaming studio Mirror World Labs has raised $12 million in its first Series A funding round led by Bitkraft, Galaxy Interactive, Big Brain Holdings and others to continue development of its gaming roll-up, Sonic.
“Over the past two years, we have worked with hundreds of games in the Web3 gaming ecosystem, helping them with their monetization and SEO,” Chris Zhu, CEO and founder of Sonic, said on June 13. continuing:
“Solana was our main focus with a whole suite of tools and frameworks for games. We believe Sonic SVM will be the key to unlocking the summer of Solana gaming, bringing thousands of games to launch and release with our support.
The funds will be used to accelerate the Sonic protocol with features such as sandbox environments, customizable game primitives, and extensible data types. Sonic will help onboard new developers into the Solana gaming ecosystem and focus on helping existing game producers use Sonic SVM and HyperGrid Framework. The latter is a cumulative deployment kit that allows developers to deploy new game engines and virtual machines into the Solana environment.
The developers said that while Solana has benefited from the memecoin boom and the growth of the decentralized application market, its gaming aspect “has not seen similar levels of success.” They believe the new Sonic protocol could help other developers deploy Solana virtual machine (SVM) chains to support their own GameFi projects.
The Sonic Protocol was first launched on March 29. It was deployed to 50 gaming clients as initial distribution nodes. Three games – Mahjong Meta, Matr1x Fire, and Seraph/ActozSoft – saw over 200,000 traffic and transaction engagements generated during their gaming sessions after integrating the Mirror World SDK.
Founded in 2022, Mirror World Labs has focused on developing the Solana gaming infrastructure, focusing on all stages of the game lifecycle, including the integration of developers, players and technical solutions . The company has raised a total of $16 million in venture capital.
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