Ready Player DAO Partners with NEAR Protocol

ReadyPlayerDAO
3 min readFeb 7, 2023

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Ready Player DAO, one of the world’s top web3 gaming ecosystems and NEAR Protocol are excited to announce a strategic partnership aimed at advancing web3 gaming in the NEAR ecosystem, and pushing the boundaries for the industry as a whole. Ready Player DAO has a core mission of driving global adoption of web3 gaming through its three pillars of investment, marketing solutions, and community building. Ready Player DAO & the NEAR Foundation are excited to work together with their highly aligned respective missions to collaborate towards being part of a long term vision of building a self-sufficient gaming ecosystem of creators, developers, entrepreneurs, community members in the NEAR ecosystem.

This partnership will include a wide variety of features to help grow and support games and gamers in the NEAR ecosystem in the short term and long term. That support includes collaborating on building and implementing strategic new initiatives within the NEAR Ecosystem to support gaming on NEAR, enabling access to gaming video content and other critical marketing solutions for NEAR-native games, while also providing gaming communities with access to Ready Player DAO on NEAR for their favorite NEAR-native games. The partnership also goes further to provide resources from Ready Player DAO for advising NEAR-native gaming projects on product and go-to-market strategies.

“This is an exciting partnership that will not only bring top projects to NEAR but also support those currently in the NEAR gaming ecosystem. We believe gaming is a very important vertical with potential to onboard large amounts of users into web3. We look forward to the opportunity to work with Ready Player DAO to support developers and create without limits on NEAR.” — Mark Mi, Director of Gaming Partnerships at NEAR Foundation

“At Ready Player DAO, we are thrilled to join forces with NEAR Protocol in our shared mission to advance web3 gaming and push the boundaries of the industry. This strategic partnership will provide a wide range of support for games and gamers in the NEAR ecosystem, including new initiatives, marketing solutions, and community building opportunities. We are committed to working closely with NEAR to create a self-sufficient gaming ecosystem and bring top projects to the platform. Let’s build, play, and create without limits on NEAR.” — Rich Cabrera, Co-Founder at Ready Player DAO

Together, Ready Player DAO and the NEAR Foundation will continue to push the boundaries of what’s possible in the world of web3 gaming and look forward to seeing the impact of this partnership on the NEAR gaming ecosystem and the web3 gaming industry as a whole.

About NEAR:

NEAR is a high-performance blockchain that is designed to be super-fast, incredibly secure, easy to use and infinitely scalable. NEAR’s vision is to create a network that enables people to re-imagine finance, creativity, and community in new and inclusive ways. Through simple, secure, and scalable technology, NEAR empowers millions to invent and explore new experiences. Business, creativity, community and technology can be reimagined for a more sustainable and inclusive future on the NEAR blockchain.

NEAR is built by an award-winning team of engineers and entrepreneurs to be the simplest blockchain for developers to build cutting-edge applications on. NEAR is backed by top VCs such as A16Z, Pantera Capital, Electric Capital, Dragonfly Capital, Coinbase Ventures, Blockchain.com, and Baidu Ventures.

About Ready Player DAO:

Ready Player DAO is a decentralized autonomous organization committed to harnessing the collective power of play to create equity for all. Our mission is to even the playing field between the studios and the larger global gaming community by supporting the web3 gaming economy with the goal of contributing to its growth toward the dominant model of gaming.

We believe web3 gaming, empowered by blockchain technology, is the next revolution in gaming, enabling transactable in-game assets at scale along with composability and transferability between games.

Ready Player DAO is built on three pillars, each intended to drive value to the ecosystem in different ways: investment, marketing support, and community building. We support the projects we believe in from all angles to encourage growth in the web3 gaming sector.

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