Horizon Blockchain Games is no more, in Sequence rebrand

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Crypto gaming infrastructure agency Sequence — which additionally owns Horizon Blockchain Video games — is shutting down its Horizon model.

Horizon Blockchain Video games isn’t any extra. Current sources and merchandise beneath that model, together with its flagship 2019 sport Skyweaver, will now exist solely beneath the Sequence model, Sequence shared completely with The Drop and Blockworks.

“This identify change is a dedication to readability — and our mission to unify blockchain ecosystems and empower builders throughout Web3,” stated Peter Kieltyka, cofounder and CEO at Sequence, in a press release.

The transfer additionally finalizes Sequence’s pivot away from sport improvement because it allocates extra of its sources to constructing crypto infrastructure.

“Skyweaver nonetheless has a neighborhood,” Sequence cofounder and Chief Storyteller Michael Sanders informed Blockworks in an interview, noting that the sport stays playable.

“A variety of the inspiration for Skyweaver was to know construct a developer platform, proper? Like, to know the ache factors that gamers are coping with, that sport builders are coping with, concerning issues like accounts and funds and wallets and transactions and marketplaces and, you already know, all of that,” Sanders stated, including: “Skyweaver actually taught us what’s required in a improvement platform.”

Horizon Blockchain Video games raised a $40 million Sequence A in 2022. It had additionally raised one other $13.3 million throughout three prior seed funding rounds, per Crunchbase information.

Sequence additionally stated it’s acquired Gentle, a crypto tech agency targeted on tackling the Ethereum “chain abstraction” problem. As a result of there are such a lot of Ethereum L2 and even “L3” blockchains — in addition to “sidechains” and different separate EVM-compatible L1 chains — it may be tough for non-technical or new customers in crypto to navigate the house with out encountering hiccups, roadblocks, glitches, delays or different issues.

The objective of chain abstraction is to make as a lot of the technical facet of a multichain expertise occur beneath the hood, in order that customers don’t should do issues like manually bridge tokens, pay to “wrap” tokens, “signal” with a pockets regularly, or face delays when attempting to finish transactions.

“Builders want entry to all of Ethereum and its shopping for energy, and customers need

intuitive and seamless experiences. That’s the Web3 we’re constructing—quick, accessible, and seamlessly interoperable,” stated Gentle founder Shun Kakinoki in a press release.

Kakinoki is now Sequence’s head of cross-chain post-acquisition.

Sequence gives infrastructure for a number of the greatest gamers within the crypto gaming house, sometimes providing these providers as “white-label.” Which means you don’t see their identify on a product that they offered to a different model. As an alternative, the pockets or characteristic exhibits the shopper’s branding.