I'm happy for the Cryptokitties development team, and I reckon it is one Ethereum based project that's not a scam. They built something simple and has delivered on its promises, with no hype or illusions of grandeur promising world changing disruption.

Now it is Ethereum's turn to step up and fix its scaling problem. The kitties are coming hehehe.



The team behind the viral ethereum app CryptoKitties is breaking away from its parent company, Canada-based Axiom Zen, and raising $12 million in venture funding to go it alone.

Announced Tuesday, the app's Series A round was led by venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, whose portfolio includes a variety of tech companies such as Coinbase and Airbnb, and Union Square Ventures, a New York-based firm that has stakes in Coinbase, OB1 and other industry startups.

Read the full article https://www.coindesk.com/a16z-leads-12-million-funding-for-ethereum-app-cryptokitties/

I am very curious about what is going to be the next step of the development team. What they are planning on using this funding for?
On this article: https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/20/cryptokitties-raises-12m-from-andreessen-horowitz-and-union-square-ventures/ it is said that probably they plan, in long term, to create other games that can be played by regular people who are not familiar with cryptocurrency, but using the same Ethereum ERC-721 collectible standard. And knowing their background I can’t wait to know with which news they are going to surprise us.

This should make some Ethereum whales worried, I reckon. If collectible tokens become a thing in the mainstream, we might see full blocks and network congestion, causing higher fees again.

This might also turn off some of the bigger Ethereum based ICOs and force them to start using other alternatives.

Vitalik and his team must hurry up and make the platform scale.