Public offering scheduled for Q2 2021.
Vilnius, Lithuania, May 4, 2021 – Drops, a groundbreaking project that unlocks additional value for nonfungible tokens, announces the closure of around $1 million from private investors. This funding round was led by Axia8 Ventures, Bitscale Capital, Blocksync, AU21, X21, D64 Ventures, Genblock and Drops Ventures. The successful round of funding builds on Drops’ network of strategic partners, which include Polkastarter, Quantstamp, 0xb1, Kyros Ventures, Zokyo, PetRock Capital and BlockStar Technologies. Drops will use the raised capital for development, marketing, operational expenses and liquidity provision.
According to the Drops team, the company has a roadmap for 2021, which includes the development tools that enhance the value of NFTs. The team will build infrastructure for owners to stake their own NFTs to earn dPoints, tokens that can be used to acquire new NFTs on the Drops platform. Drops is also developing a dNFT protocol that will allow owners to put their NFTs in a digital vault and convert them into ERC-20 tokens, which can be sold on decentralized exchanges. The dNFT infrastructure will also be the backbone for trustless NFT loan smart contracts and yield farming where NFTs can be used to supply yield farming protocols without the need to sell the original NFT.
Darius Kozlovskis, the founder of Drops, celebrated the closure of the private investment round by saying:
“This has demonstrated the tremendous support that Drops already has from the crypto community, which we are truly thankful for. We are extremely grateful and ready to revolutionize the NFT and DeFi space.”
Drops began building the platform earlier this year with strong community support and funds raised from over 120 private investors from the crypto community. Notable investors include major executives from various crypto and blockchain companies.
Individual investors of Drops include:
- Andrey Balyasnikov, head of products of Zerion
- Richard Ma, CEO of Quantstamp
- Michael Gu, a.k.a. Boxmining
- Marc Weinstein, head of platform of Mechanism
- Joseph Delong, chief technology officer of Sushi
- Ian from Blockparty and nft.org
- Ben Lakoff of Charged Particles
- Nick Sawinyh, builder of Defiprime and DexGuru
- Hartej Sawney of Zokyo
- Cooper Turley, a.k.a. Coopahtroopa
- Sergei Chan of BlockScience
- Regan Bozman, formerly at CoinList.
Drops will hold an initial offering for the NFT and cryptocurrency communities in the second quarter of 2021. For more information about Drops, please visit https://www.drops.co/.
About Drops
From the same team that created the NFT game Node Runners, Drops is an NFT project focused on bringing scalability and utility to NFT assets. By bringing DeFi-style properties to NFT assets, users will finally be able to earn yield with and borrow against their NFTs. Drops NFT is a pioneer in providing loans, vaults, staking and yield farming for NFT owners and investors. They aim to allow digital creators to reach larger audiences and have their art celebrated by a growing community. Drops offers gasless transactions and a smooth user interface by leveraging the layer-two platform Polygon in cooperation with Biconomy, allowing equal participation for all.
Website: https://www.drops.co
Media contact: info@drops.co