Summary

  • Gaming blockchain MagicBlock has raised $7.5m in seed money to help power its goal of creating real-time, fully decentralised games and apps built natively on the Solana blockchain.
  • The round was led by investment firm Lightspeed Venture Partners and included Maven11, Delphi Digital, and Robot Ventures, among others.
  • Prior to the latest investment, MagicBlock had already garnered $3m of investment led by a16z CSX in September 2024; the funding will further accelerate MagicBlock’s momentum, according to the company,
  • It also aims to bridge the gap between traditional servers and blockchain technology.
  • MagicBlock’s technology allows developers to build and access app-specific extensions, such as custom pricing or permissioning, whilst benefiting from Solana’s liquidity and ecosystem.
  • MagicBlock will use the funds to expand its engineering team and scale its ecosystem.

By Dean Takahashi

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