some cool AF web3 acquisitions

Doodles x Golden Wolf, MoonPay, and former FTX U.S. President's crypto startup

January 25, 2023

GM Baos,

Is it the year of the rabbit or the cat? 😆

Someone lmk...

Today we cover:

  • The Doodles deal to acquire Golden Wolf

  • MoonPay leading mainstream adoption

  • Former FTX U.S. President's new startup

Doodles x Golden Wolf 🎨

Golden Wolf is in the process of being acquired by Doodles. An Emmy nominated animation studio, most notably known for their work with the Adult Swim show 'Rick and Morty'. Jordan Castro (Founder of Doodles) tweeted that we can expect storytelling without constraints and AI animation generation R&D.

Ingi Erlingsson (Founder/CEO of Golden Wolf) will join Doodles as their Chief Content Officer. He said in a statement, "This partnership will unlock boundless potential within each of our businesses, accelerating our goal of redefining entertainment through engaging storytelling and worlds". As Golden Wolf will continue to operate independently of Doodles. 

I'm excited to see where the partnership takes this blue-chip NFT. Wen Doodles TV show? 🥺

MoonPay aquires Nightshift 🌕 

When I think of MoonPay, I always think of Faze Clan because that's how I was introduced to them. Since then MoonPay has secured partnerships with beeg web3 companies like OpenSea/Uniswap and are living up to their reputation as the PayPal of crypto. 

Last week they acquired Nightshift, a web3 creative agency which recently rebranded as Otherlife. Guess who some of their clients include? Coinbase, OpenSea and Shopify! 👀

The focus of this acquisition is help to onboard major brands into web3. Similarly to how they brought the largest NFT scavenger hunt to Universal Studios in 2022. 

... maybe Porsche should have hit up MoonPay 🥲

... yes? 

Former FTX U.S. President's new endeavor  

Brett Harrison has always been one of the good guys... He was never involved in any of Sam Bankman- Fried (SBF)'s criminal activities. Plus, how could you hate the man who provides CT with the cutest pet pics!? 🙃

His new crypto startup Architect is building a trading software for large institutions and recently raised $5m. 

"Talking with many past clients of FTX and thinking about my own background, one of the biggest barriers of entry to people for trading is building the infrastructure to access all these different venues". 

"I thought that we could make a difference in increasing the security and maturity of the space by helping traders adapt with the evolution of crypto market structure without having to build that software themselves" — Brett Harrison

In this 49- part thread on FTX/SBF, he talked about his experiences trying to raise funds... 

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