


"Blockchain technology will unlock the potential for truly player-driven, open economies and will usher in the next wave of gaming and virtual worlds," said Faraway CEO Alex Paley. Working across major games like Disney's Sorcerer's Arena, WWE Champions, The Walking Dead: Road to Survival, Looney Tunes: World of Mayhem and others gave the leadership team a solid foundation and understanding of social mechanics in gaming and set the course for the team's browser-based approach into the crypto gaming space. "We are still at the beginning of the blockchain gaming era and we're about to see teams like Faraway catapult gaming into the next wave of what's possible."įaraway's market strategy and social-focused approach to crypto gaming is centered on the vision of the company's two co-founders, Alex Paley and Dennis Zdonov, and its CTO, Duc Nguyen, all of whom have extensive leadership experience in free-to-play and midcore gaming.

"Lightspeed is searching for the industry's most promising teams to bring the next 100M users to web3, and that is likely in gaming," said Amy Wu, partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners. Faraway is a new gaming studio leveraging blockchain technology to unlock the potential for truly player-driven and decentralized game economies and is set to launch its browser-based flagship title Mini Royale: Nations as the first live multiplayer game on Solana, one of the fastest growing blockchain ecosystems.
