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Protocol Village: Farworld, Building Gaming on Farcaster, Raises $1.75M

Summary

Farworld Labs, a gaming company, has completed a $1.75 million pre-seed funding round co-led by Lemniscap and Variant. The funding will accelerate the Q3 releases, including the launch of the Farcade platform, a suite of tools for developers to create crypto-native games that can be played within social media feeds. The Celo Foundation has appointed Eric Nakagawa as Executive Director and Isha Varshney as head of Ecosystem, while Sophia Dew has joined as developer relations lead. These changes aim to elevate homegrown and Web3 native talent into key senior leadership positions.