EMURGO Africa’s Adaverse Invests in Blockchain Platform, Diagon Studios, to Advance Cardano Web3 Adoption

Adaverse, a Cardano-focused joint accelerator enterprise, has introduced a strategic funding in Diagon Studios, a Nigerian gaming expertise firm centered on the event and distribution of hyper-casual video games, utility, and NFTs by way of easy play-to-earn (P2E) fashions. 

Adaverse was launched in September 2021 as a three way partnership partnership between EMURGO Africa and Everest Ventures, to establish and supply worthwhile help sources to promising African founders constructing the subsequent wave of Web3 dApps in DeFi, NFTs, gaming, metaverse, and extra on Cardano’s environmentally-sustainable blockchain. EMURGO Africa is without doubt one of the funding arms of EMURGO, a founding entity of the Cardano blockchain.

What’s Diagon Studios?

Diagon Studios is a Nigerian blockchain GameFi platform centered on deploying P2E hyper-casual video games on the blockchain to assist break boundaries within the Web3 gaming business. Based by Jeremiah Onojah, a seasoned engineer with years of expertise constructing options within the Web2 and Web3 areas, Diagon Studios bridges the hole between work and play by introducing the distinctive worth of blockchain and digital belongings with a multifunctional dApp (decentralized utility). Diagon intends to scale its platform and concern digital tokens on the Cardano blockchain, one of many largest blockchain networks by market capitalization. 

Diagon believes that video video games ought to stay extremely entertaining, much less complicated, and readily accessible whereas providing reasonable incomes prospects for everybody with a cell phone.  

Presently, Diagon Studios is rebranding its mannequin with the deployment of some further options to carry customers a whole blockchain expertise. Having launched the primary model of the product which scaled as much as 3,000 energetic customers, the product is seeking to function a mainstream assortment of informal video games, making a platform the place avid gamers can play informal video games in all their glory. One of many key choices at Diagon Studios would be the on the spot reward system by way of the Diagon Tokens (DGN), redeemable at each milestone accomplished and made accessible to all customers, together with novice avid gamers and specialists.

Extra options to be deployed inside the Diagon ecosystem will embrace Diagon Store-and-Refill, a crypto-powered platform that may help the commerce of present playing cards, buy of knowledge subscriptions, and gaming belongings. Crypto funds for on-line programs, E-books, devices, and many others, may also be supported. The rebranding course of may also function the deployment of Diagon Advertisements Vista, a platform the place customers will have the ability to subscribe to adverts of their selecting. Because the mannequin scales, an NFT Market the place everybody can personal a bit of the metaverse as each creators and collectors of digital collectibles may also be created. 

Why Diagon Studios? 

The GameFi business is without doubt one of the quickest rising sectors in blockchain and Web3 that’s garnering quite a lot of competitors and pushing the crypto market quantity. Nonetheless, globally-popular P2E video games have gotten fairly costly and complicated to play for mid-level avid gamers and newbies. By introducing quite a lot of informal video games with an easy-to-use interface, Diagon Studios critically lowers the entry barrier into Web3 for everybody throughout the globe. 

In distinction to the normal online game market with dwindling income, predicted to plunge additional within the following years, blockchain P2E video games have made large leaps in the previous few years, recording vital progress of over 2000% in 2021. The revolutionary improvement of cryptocurrency enabled a novel P2E in-game economic system the place gamers can extract worth from their complete gaming expertise, and convert it into a big supply of revenue. With this trajectory, the blockchain gaming market is projected to rise from an estimated $1.5 billion in 2021 to a staggering $50 billion by 2025, boosting worldwide gaming income and creating new monetary alternatives for extra folks to entry the Web3 economic system.

Shogo Ishida, co-CEO at EMURGO Africa, mentioned, “Centered on hyper-casual gaming that takes out complexity from the gameplay, Diagon Studios is without doubt one of the sport publishers that stands on the cusp of opening the African house to the realities of play-to-earn and we’re glad to offer the startup a launchpad and the chance to construct on Cardano”.

Jeremiah Onojah (Founder and CEO)

Commenting on the partnership with Adaverse, Diagon Studios Founder and CEO, Jeremiah Onojah acknowledged that “The Cardano blockchain will provide a greater method to securing transactions for the Diagon undertaking with its eco-friendly platform and enormous world neighborhood. Diagon intends to concern tokens on the Cardano blockchain sooner or later improvement stage. With the help of EMURGO Africa and Adaverse, we can do extra with the Cardano blockchain. The Diagon studios staff will work intensely with Adaverse to be in the very best form, hitting the proper market match and scaling her merchandise”.

Past play-to-earn (P2E) video games, the Diagon platform will join a digital neighborhood of worldwide informal avid gamers to develop their abilities, community, and entry extra alternatives in Web3 by way of partnership packages, particularly for DGN token holders who may also have staking and governance rights within the platform.

“This startup is all about demystifying the Web3 gaming system in Africa by reaching the grassroots stage and offering reasonably priced choices focusing on low-income earners, to make sure extra folks discover one thing that pursuits and pays them whereas constructing on a dependable infrastructure. Diagon will probably be one of many pillars of Africa’s digital future and Adaverse is glad to help this undertaking”, mentioned Vincent Li, founding associate at Adaverse.

About Adaverse

Adaverse is a catalyst for the Cardano ecosystem in Africa, devoted to investing, mentoring, and offering standardised tech help for organically grown startups constructing the subsequent wave of Web3 decentralized functions, together with NFTs, DeFi, and others on Cardano’s third-generation blockchain.

Since its launch in 2021, by way of a three way partnership partnership between EMURGO Africa and Everest Ventures, Adaverse has concluded strategic investments in over fifteen (15) crypto-native startups and goals to help extra promising game-changing options within the African ecosystem. By means of periodic bodily meetups and the 3-months intensive accelerator program for startup founders, Adaverse goals to be a launchpad for the Cardano-focused tasks arising throughout Africa, and the Center East to usher within the quickly rising digitally reliant world economic system.

Adaverse is open to functions from founders all 12 months spherical. Apply for funding right here. 

To begin incomes from easy-to-play video games, go to the Diagon Studios web site.