Animoca Manufacturers has introduced that it has acquired a majority stake within the music metaverse gaming platform – PIXELYNX. Buying this via its managed subsidiary, Pixelynx inc was a metaverse platform established by famend musicians and technologists Deadmau5 (Joel Zimmerman) and Richie Hawtin (Plastikman) and gaming trade veterans Ben Turner, Dean Wilson, and Inder Phull.
Based on the worldwide metaverse firm, its acquisition was to construct, put money into and purchase studios and corporations that may push ahead the digital way forward for the music trade.
PIXELYNX operates throughout 5 international locations and serves as a bodily and digital ecosystem. Selling itself as a blurring of traces between music, gaming and web3. Its ecosystem will present artists management over how they construct experiences with followers, companions, and platforms to create new methods for music lovers to develop, share, and monetise music.
Animoca Manufacturers had beforehand led a seed funding spherical for PIXELYNX in December 2021 with participation from Solana Ventures, Alumni Ventures Blockchain Fund, Hyperedge Capital, Republic Realm, Sfermion, and others (see the announcement of 6 December 2021).
Together with its devoted ecosystem, the corporate additionally operates LynxLabs – its new funding program that helps the event of upcoming artists and music by providing entry to funding, networking, token design and extra. LynxLabs has already invested into Volta XR and Oorbit.
The ecosystem additionally has its upcoming debut sport ELYNXIR is a next-generation cellular gaming platform that may carry followers nearer to their favorite artists via unique music content material, in-game collectables, and playable immersive experiences.
PIXELYNX’s ELYNXIR will probably be built-in into the Animoca Manufacturers ecosystem with an emphasis on interoperability, open requirements, and new interactive audio-visual codecs.
