Solana invests up to $100M in South Korean NFT, DeFi projects, virtual gaming

Solana Ventures and the Solana Foundation will commit up to a total of $100M in a new fund supporting South Korean-based projects dedicated to non-fungible tokens and decentralized finance as well as blockchain gaming, Johnny Lee, general manager of games at Solana Labs, told TechCrunch on Tuesday. The Solana (SOL-USD) community treasury and Solana Labs' pool of capital are backing the fund, said Austin Federa, head of communications at Solana Labs, as reported by TechCrunch. “A big portion of Korea’s gaming industry is moving into web3,” lee told TechCrunch. “We want to be flexible; there’s a wide range of project sizes, team sizes, so some of [our investments] will be venture-sized checks,” he added. Looking forward, Lee said there will likely be more “high-quality and fun games” launching on the Solana (SOL-USD) blockchain in the second half of this year. Those games will make play-to-earn games a more fun concept, he added.