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Binance Labs Leads $6M Strategic Round of Funding for the Moonbeam Network

Apr 1, 2021 3 min read
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Moonbeam has quickly grown to become one of the most prominent parachains in the Polkadot ecosystem. In the six months since closing a seed round and launching a TestNet in September 2020, dozens of projects have begun building on — and integrating with — the Moonbeam network. Examples of protocols with planned or live integrations on Moonbeam include SushiSwap, Balancer, IDEX, Seascape, Linear Finance, and Ocean Protocol.

“We hope that this strategic round will be a stepping stone for Moonbeam, as they work to make their Ethereum-compatible network a reality. We support Moonbeam, believing that it will be one of the notable parachains of the Polkadot ecosystem,” said Wei Zhou, Head of Binance Labs.

“We see enormous potential in the Polkadot space, and Moonbeam is setting the state of the art of Ethereum compatibility on Polkadot as well as developing a robust smart contracting facility in the new network. We are pleased to be able to support the Moonbeam team as they continue to make incredible technical progress in this space,” says Jake Brukhman, CEO of CoinFund.

The PureStake, the company developing the Moonbeam smart contract platform, team plans to launch the Moonbeam network in a multi-phased approach similar to the one previously employed for the Polkadot network launch: a TestNet parachain deployment (currently live), the Moonriver network deployment to Kusama, followed by a Moonbeam network deployment for Polkadot (planned for later this year). This funding round will help the team plan and successfully launch each deployment, including third-party security audits of the code, as soon as the functionality is available.

The funding round also included a broad set of prominent venture capital firms across the blockchain industry including Hypersphere Ventures, Hashkey Capital, Arrington XRP, KR1, D1 Ventures, Mechanism Capital, Divergence Ventures, and Signum Capital.

“From the beginning, we have prioritized broad and strategic distribution when fundraising. The partnerships forged in this round — which include some of the most well-respected names in the industry — will provide us with the capital, guidance, and global traction we need to launch the Moonbeam network and establish it as a center of DeFi, NFT, and other activity on Polkadot,” says Derek Yoo, CEO of PureStake and Founder of the Moonbeam project.

The Moonbeam and Moonriver parachains are expected to launch later this year, once parachain functionality has been enabled on Polkadot and Kusama, respectively.

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