{"id":49692,"date":"2021-09-17T18:14:50","date_gmt":"2021-09-17T15:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=49692"},"modified":"2025-09-02T13:56:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T10:56:09","slug":"animoca-brands-to-acquire-bondly-nft-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/animoca-brands-to-acquire-bondly-nft-platform\/","title":{"rendered":"Animoca Brands to Acquire Bondly NFT Platform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The blockchain-gaming provider Animoca Brands has signed a binding agreement to acquire a controlling stake in Bondly, a non-fungible token (NFT) platform.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Animoca Brands is acquiring a majority stake in Bondly <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BondlyFinance?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@BondlyFinance<\/a>, the premiere <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NFT?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NFT<\/a> solutions provider empowering the next generation of NFT creators.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DvWSVQMcpd\">https:\/\/t.co\/DvWSVQMcpd<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PlayToEarn?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PlayToEarn<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/P2E?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#P2E<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24BONDLY&#038;src=ctag&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">$BONDLY<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DeFi?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#DeFi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Animoca Brands (@animocabrands) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/animocabrands\/status\/1438853275407695882?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 17, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The investment in Bondly is expected to spur widespread NFT adoption across Animoca Brands&#8217; portfolio companies, which operate in gaming, sports, collectibles and other sectors.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cBondly&#8217;s NFT technologies, including the exchange protocol, marketplace and cross-chain bridges, will allow gamers to easily move assets from one blockchain to another,\u201d the press release says.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>According to Animoca Brands, its investment portfolio includes more than 100 companies, including NFT heavyweights such as OpenSea and Dapper Labs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/rothschild-family-fund-backs-nft-game-developer\">raised $50<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/nft-game-developer-animoca-brands-raises-50-million-from-coinbase-ventures-and-other-investors\">$88.9 million<\/a>, pushing its valuation to $1.139 billion.<\/p>\n<p>In July 2021, Animoca Brands invested in the NFT marketplace <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/nft-marketplace-with-mark-cuban-investments-raises-13-million\">Mintable<\/a> and in the liquid-staking service <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/claystack-staking-protocol-raises-5-2m-in-seed-funding\">ClayStack<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog on <a href=\"https:\/\/vk.com\/forklogcom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">VK<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The blockchain-gaming provider Animoca Brands has signed a binding agreement to acquire a controlling stake in Bondly, an NFT platform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"Animoca Brands to acquire Bondly NFT platform.","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1156,1213],"class_list":["post-49692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-institutional-investors-and-whales","tag-nft"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"39","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"Animoca Brands to acquire Bondly NFT platform.","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49693,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49692\/revisions\/49693"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}