By Daniel Dal Bello, Director. August 22, 2022–3 min read. — Hillrise Ventures today announces an investment into DEFY Labs — the developer of the immersive augmented reality play-to-earn mobile game DEFY. Hillrise Ventures is the private investment arm of Hillrise Group. DEFY is an upcoming play-to-earn location-based mobile game bringing together both the physical and virtual worlds. The gameplay and…

By Daniel Dal Bello, Director. April 26, 2022–2 min read. — Hillrise Ventures today announces an investment into The Metakey — a massively interoperable cross-platform key to the metaverse. Hillrise Ventures is the private investment arm of Hillrise Group. Since launching in May 2021, The Metakey have sold nearly 10,000 Metakeys across four editions with a secondary market volume of almost…

By Daniel Dal Bello, Director. January 21, 2022–7 min read. — On Thursday 20 January, we welcomed Pavel Bains of Bluzelle into the Hillrise Group Telegram chat for an AMA about Bluzelle’s technology and ventures into the GameFi environment. You might recall Bluzelle as a prominent name just a few years ago, well they are still around and innovating with their…

By Daniel Dal Bello, Director. January 19, 2022–9 min read. — On Tuesday 18 January, we welcomed Ingo Ruebe of KILT Protocol into the Hillrise Group Telegram chat for an AMA about self-sovereign identity and verifiable credentials for Web3. Identity on the blockchain has been a difficult puzzle to solve, names have come and gone while KILT has survived the test…

By Daniel Dal Bello, Director. January 5, 2022–12 min read. — On Thursday 23 December, we welcomed Brendan Wong of Avocado Guild into the Hillrise Group Telegram chat for an AMA about the emergence of gaming Guilds over the second half of 2021. Avocado Guild is one of the largest and most successful Guilds in existence. With over 50,000 Discord members…

By Daniel Dal Bello, Director. December 9, 2021–9 min read. — On Thursday 9 December, we welcomed Anna George of CowSwap into the Hillrise Group Telegram chat for an AMA about increasing efficiency in decentralized exchanges and fighting ‘Maximum Extracted Value’. CowSwap is an Ethereum-based DEX aggregator that allows trading with MEV protection while using ETH-less orders and ‘Coincidence Of Wants’.

By Daniel Dal Bello, Director. December 9, 2021–3 min read. — Hillrise Ventures today announces an investment into Efficient Frontier — a leading algorithmic trading firm and market maker for digital assets. Hillrise Ventures is the private investment arm of Hillrise Group. Efficient Frontier, founded in 2018 and led by Roei Levav and Alon Elmaliah, has helped over 100 projects and…

By Daniel Dal Bello, Director. December 7, 2021–10 min read. — On Thursday 9 December, we welcomed Milan Shoukri of Zilliqa into the Hillrise Group Telegram chat for an AMA. Launched back in 2017, Zilliqa is the world’s first sharding-based blockchain with their mainnet live since January 2019. Their own functional programming language Scilla has been designed and peer-reviewed by scientists…

By Daniel Dal Bello, Director. December 7, 2021–8 min read. — To the everyday individual, the concept of playing-and-earning seem to be two mutually exclusive terms embedded in us from childhood. We are taught from a young age that a classroom is a place for learning, while recess is our time for sport and running around on the playground. …