Nguyen Thanh Trung, the founder of Sky Mavis.

The ranking was published by CoinDesk, one of the influential news sites on the cryptocurrency market.

Trung is on par with famous global figures such as Sam Bankman-Fried (CEO and founder of FTX exchange), American billionaire Elon Musk and Roham Gharegozlou (CEO of Dapper Labs).

According to CoinDesk, Nguyen Thanh Trung started the wave of "play to earn" games. This has created an interesting trend and has changed the face of the crypto world.

Currently, Sky Mavis has about 87 employees, with at least 60 of them working in the office in Vietnam. Sky Mavis has raised $7.5 million in a Series A funding round led by Libertus Capital and recently another $152 million in a Series B round led by A16Z and Accel Partners.

With an international strategy, less than 3% of Axie Infinity players are from Vietnam. It can be said with certainty that Axie Infinity has become a technology product of international stature.

According to CoinDesk, the success of Axie Infinity has boosted the digital industry in Vietnam, created jobs for many local workers and become a driving force for the wave of startups and innovation.

Following the success of Axie Infinity, many other Vietnamese game projects such as Cyball, Sipher, Thetan Arena, Space Crypto and Atlantis Metaverse will be launched in the near future. These will be pioneering projects that show the creativity of Vietnamese people, and will offer great opportunities and potential for Vietnam to participate more deeply in the cryptocurrency economy.

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