Yee-Haw Monster Trucks Raises $3.3M to Develop Ethereum Blockchain-Based Virtual World, The Citadel

Los Angeles-based gaming studio Yee-Haw Monster Trucks has secured $3.3m in seed funding to continue developing The Citadel, a sci-fi virtual world built entirely on the Ethereum blockchain. The game will be governed by its community of players and will use decentralized and fully open source architecture. The Citadel will host all of its game state, assets, and logic directly on blockchain smart contracts instead of conventional server-based architecture. Yee-Haw Monster Trucks plans to launch a public playtest for The Citadel soon and is currently hiring artists and engineers.