Animoca Brands and CyberConnect partner to build decentralized social layer for Mocaverse

15 August 2023 – CyberConnect, Web3’s earliest and biggest social network, has entered into a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for a strategic partnership with Animoca Brands, the company advancing digital property rights for gaming and the open metaverse, to build a decentralized social layer for Mocaverse, the NFT collection of the Animoca Brands ecosystem. CyberConnect’s smart account infrastructure CyberAccount will power the identity layer of Mocaverse, offering companies in the Animoca Brands’ portfolio the opportunity to build their own social graph and power interoperable user experiences across games, products, and services.

With CyberConnect’s recent V3 upgrade introducing CyberAccount, Web3’s first scalable and battle-tested ERC-4337-powered smart account, both companies decided to expand the scope of their partnership. Since its launch on 26 July 2023, CyberAccount has become an industry leader in ERC-4337 account abstraction, deploying over 90% of all smart accounts (smart contract wallets) created to date.

Animoca Brands and CyberConnect plan to lay out an industry model with this upcoming Web3 social network that can lay the foundation for a new primitive in building consumer products and applications that empower users to travel across their favorite applications without recreating their networks.

ERC-4337-powered smart accounts allow Web3 developers to abstract away the complexities of crypto wallets and make the user experience and onboarding as intuitive and familiar as Web2. Applications built upon CyberAccount will enable users to access various games and services from Animoca Brands and its portfolio companies with an all-in-one smart account.

Even though existing wallet or account solutions like MetaMask allow developers to tap into a crypto-native user base, they lack the ability to empower developers in deploying context-specific, personalized user experiences. With a social graph deeply integrated with users’ CyberAccount, developers can bootstrap their decentralized applications, significantly reducing the time to bring their product to market and reach previously unexplored user bases. Animoca Brands aims to increase adoption with this ‘super account’ approach and empower developers with a first-of-its-kind user onboarding solution.

In the coming months, Animoca Brands will roll out support for CyberAccount across Mocaverse, allowing users to bring their friends, fans, followers, and connections with them to their favorite applications.

About CyberConnect

CyberConnect is Web3’s earliest and biggest social network that enables developers to create social applications utilizing ERC-4337/Account Abstraction, empowering users to own their digital identity, content, connections, and interactions.

Founded by Silicon Valley-based serial entrepreneurial team in 2021, there are already over 50 projects that are using CyberConnect to build social features for real-world use cases, such as community-owned social networks, marketplaces, content curation, discovery tools, and more.

As of August 2023, the CyberConnect protocol has 1.2M user profiles and 400k monthly active wallets have conducted more than 16.3M transactions. Over 2,600 verified organizations created their CyberProfiles to build their web3 native audience. CyberConnect’s first native social app, Link3, has 940k monthly active users.

CyberConnect is backed by Multicoin and Animoca Brands, among other top investors, and has raised over US$25 million since its inception. For more information, visit cyberconnect.me.

About Mocaverse

Mocaverse is an ambitious project by Animoca Brands that aims to bring together the company’s portfolio projects, subsidiaries, joint ventures, and partners through a unique NFT collection. Mocaverse features 8,888 Mocas, which are NFT profile pictures (PFPs) that serve as a membership pass for Animoca Brands team members, investors, partners, and certain token holders. Mocaverse aims to unite the Web3 community through shared purpose and values by allowing holders to exchange ideas, learn, connect, play games, and build the future of Web3.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/MocaverseNFT
Medium: https://medium.com/mocaverse

About Animoca Brands

Animoca Brands, a Deloitte Tech Fast winner, a Fortune Crypto 40 company, and one of the Financial Times’ High Growth Companies Asia-Pacific 2023, is a leader in digital entertainment, blockchain, and gamification that is working to advance digital property rights and contribute to the establishment of the open metaverse. The company develops and publishes a broad portfolio of products including original games such as The Sandbox, Phantom Galaxies, Life Beyond, Crazy Kings, and Crazy Defense Heroes, and products utilizing popular intellectual properties including Disney, WWE, Snoop Dogg, The Walking Dead, Power Rangers, MotoGP™, and Formula E. It has multiple subsidiaries, including The Sandbox, Blowfish Studios, Quidd, GAMEE, nWay, Pixowl, Forj, Lympo, Animoca Brands Japan, Grease Monkey Games, Eden Games, Life Beyond Studios, Notre Game, TinyTap, Be., PIXELYNX, and WePlay Media. Animoca Brands has a growing portfolio of over 450 Web3 investments, including Colossal, Axie Infinity, OpenSea, Dapper Labs (NBA Top Shot), Yield Guild Games, Harmony, Alien Worlds, Star Atlas, and others. For more information visit www.animocabrands.com or follow on Twitter or Facebook.