Animoca initially revealed the funding round in January, when the Hong Kong business secured $359 million from investors like George Soros and the Winklevoss twins. They said that this investment round is in addition to that first round. Animoca raised an additional $75 million in the same funding round earlier this summer, valuing the company at $6 billion.
Temasek has stated that it prefers to support service providers in the area over making direct investments in cryptocurrencies. The representatives for Animoca and Temasek refused to comment.
In 5 years, Animoca has transformed from a small mobile game publisher to Asia's leading blockchain investor by building a portfolio of over 340 financial, gaming, and social media companies. Building virtual worlds on the blockchain would enable co-founder Yat Siu to challenge the supremacy of big tech companies.
According to Siu, Animoca is looking to purchase stakes in market players and digital tokens by taking advantage of the current slowdown in the cryptocurrency market. Also, it will rely on how well the market receives its primary business of selling cryptocurrency tokens and collecting a percentage of any transaction period.