Place/Date: Ta’ Xbiex, Malta - April 12th, 2021 at 6:25 pm UTC · 3 min read
Virtue Poker, a multi-chain, Ethereum-based decentralized poker platform, has now announced it has closed on a strategic investment round of $5 million.
The company was part of Coinlist’s Seed Winter 2021 Batch and has received funding from strategic investors, including Joseph Lubin’s Consensys, DFG Group, Pantera Capital, Jez San from FunFair and other notable names. Poker legend and 10 times WSOP winner Phil Ivey, is a both a stakeholder and the public spokesperson for the company.
Virtue Poker is a P2P poker site that operates on the Ethereum blockchain, which allows players to transact in cryptocurrency instead of fiat money. Since 2015, blockchain development tank ConsenSys has served as the incubator for the project.