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Animoca Brands Japan launches its NFT Sorah launchpad on June 18
Animoca Brands Japan, the strategic subsidiary of Animoca Brands, announced that June 18 will take place the launch of its NFT Sorah launchpad. The platform will be used to support projects and creators in the sale of their Non-Fungible Tokens.
Animoca Brands Japan and the launch of the new Sorah NFT launchpad
Animoca Brands Japanthe strategic subsidiary of Animoca Brands, will launch its new NFT launchpad, called Sorah, on June 18.
In practice, Sorah will be an NFT launch platform that supports projects and creators in the sale of their Non-Fungible Tokens.
Specifically, the Animoca Brands Japan launchpad aims to provide sales opportunities and multifaceted support for sales and marketing strategies for the NFT projects that will be selected.
In play, there will also be a Loyalty program such as an NFT which will allow users to benefit from various advantages.
Thanks to Sorah’s new platform, Animoca Brands Japan aims to become a Web3 portal that better connects Japan to the global community. In fact, among the various goals is the promotion of Japanese IP (such as manga and anime) around the world, as well as the development of content in Japan that attracts global interest.
Animoca Brands Japan and the new NFT Sorah launch pad: the inaugural sales
As planned, the Sorah launch will take place on June 18. On this occasion, there will be several inaugural sales such as the San FranTokyo PFP NFT collection “San FranTokyo Visions”, as well as the “Captain Tsubasa Team Collection” and the “SHIBUYA109 FASHION COLLECTION” for The Sandbox.
Specifically, the collection San FranTokyo Visionssees the sale of 50 NFTs priced at 0.085 ETH each. To give an idea of the project, the description talks about San FranTokyo as an imaginary city that brings together intellectual property and brands, focusing on fans of anime, manga and pop culture.
Another collection is then Team Captain Tsubasa of 100 NFTs, which will be sold at a price of 60 MATIC each. Here, one is confronted with a sandbox avatar collection of the immortal masterpiece Captain Tsubasa, consisting of a total of 2,060 avatars which include avatars wearing the famous uniforms of Nankatsu High School and Toho Gakuen High School .
And then, still on Sorah, there will also be the inaugural sale of the SHIBUYA109 FASHION COLLECTION, 100 NFT at the price of 60 MATIC each. Published on The Sandbox, here the 2060 avatars in total integrate Japanese trends and culture.
Owners of this collection will be able to use their avatars to have fun with fashion-themed mini-games and play with a series of experiential content that will be available in The Sandbox metaverse.
In general, Animoca Brands Japan’s NFT launchpad, Sorah, is supported by the Ethereum and Polygon chains. Not only that, to maintain a limit, sales of its NFTs are not available to residents of the United States and United Kingdomcountries subject to sanctions and other restricted jurisdictions.
$20 million in funding in The Sandbox metaverse
Recently, another division of Animoca Brands has also made headlines. It is the decentralized metaverse of The sandbox which would have obtained A funding of $20 million, reaching a maximum valuation of $1 billion.
The goal is to further develop the creator economy within an open metaverse.
The funding was led by Kingsway Capital and Animoca Brands, with participation from LG Tech Ventures and True Global Ventures.