Sunrise Announces Partnership with and Direct Investment from Animoca Brands Japan
Introduction
gRISE!
We’re starting the year off with some pretty big news! Sunrise has received direct investment and entered into a strategic partnership with Animoca Brands Japan, a subsidiary of the global Web3 leader Animoca Brands. This collaboration demonstrates Sunrise’s ongoing commitment to delivering powerful Data Availability (DA) solutions for a broad range of industries, from gaming to Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks (DePIN), and more.
Partnership Highlights
- Investment: Animoca Brands Japan has made a direct investment in Sunrise.
- DA Validator Participation: Animoca Brands Japan will participate in the Sunrise validator network to add more security to the Sunrise ecosystem.
- Global Growth: Together, Sunrise and Animoca Brands Japan will expand global DA adoption, with a strong focus on the DePIN and gaming domain.
We’re particularly excited to introduce Sunrise’s specialized DA Layer to exciting use cases like DePIN, Gaming, IP management, and more. In the process of aligning Sunrise with Animoca Brands Japan’s global network, we have positioned Sunrise to become the go-to DA layer for:
- Gaming: Lowering transaction costs, accelerating throughput, and ensuring massive amounts of game-related data remain both secure and efficiently stored.
- DePIN: Supporting decentralized physical infrastructure projects, by providing a reliable way to store and verify off-chain data.
- IP Commercialization: Improving how digital assets and intellectual property are licensed, tracked, and monetized.
This partnership marks a significant milestone for Sunrise. Our vision has always been to create a truly modular, efficient, and scalable blockchain that opens doors for innovators worldwide. Joining forces with Animoca Brands Japan moves us one step closer to making that vision a reality.
About Sunrise
Sunrise is a specialized Data Availability Layer for Proof of Liquidity (PoL). PoL enables DA Fee Abstraction, allowing users to receive blobspace in exchange for providing liquidity to any PoL pool of their choice on Sunrise. At the L2 level, this deepens liquidity and security for L2s by allowing them to provide liquidity in their own native token.
Sunrise incentivizes the data availability (DA) network primarily through its Proof of Liquidity (PoL) model rather than relying on altruistic or voluntary contributions. In practice, users or developers providing liquidity to certain whitelisted pools receive the right to publish data (i.e., blobspace) in return. Because liquidity providers benefit financially, they have a direct stake in maintaining reliable and secure data availability, aligning incentives across the network.
This feature and the incentive for optional long term data availability enables developers to build not only scalable L2s but also explore fully on-chain new technologies like AI, Gaming, and more.
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About Animoca Brands Japan
Animoca Brands Japan is a strategic subsidiary of global Web3 leader Animoca Brands, dedicated to expanding Japanese intellectual property and content globally. Acting as a gateway between Japan and the rest of the world, it supports both the global expansion of Japanese IP in the Web3 space and the development of overseas projects into Japan.