BLIFE Protocol is officially merged with Portal and formed a new entity under the brand Portal. The integration represents a major move in the Web3 gaming and interoperability business sector and was announced on December 22, 2025. The merger unites the Bitcoin-centric infrastructure and community of BLIFE and the cross-chain gaming and liquidity platform of Portal, which is expected to minimize fragmentation among blockchain gaming ecosystems.
Today we are incredibly excited to announce that Portal has merged with @BLIFEProtocol, supported by @animocabrands and G-20.This is a major milestone in our mission to build the leading Web3 gaming platform – pushing Portal, our partners and our community to an entirely new… pic.twitter.com/txlcgdnhCa
— Portal (@Portalcoin) December 22, 2025
The new unified Portal will be able to maintain interoperability with other chains and add the Bitcoin-native products and users of BLIFE. Benjamin Charbit, ex-Ubisoft director of games (Assassin Creed IV: Black Flag), assumes the role of Chief Executive Officer as the leadership of the merged organization.
Animoca Brands and G-20 Back the Relaunch
Early sponsor and a leading investor of the Web3 gaming sector, Animoca Brands will be able to contribute to the relaunch of the Portal with new funds and entry into its vast gaming categories. The participation of Animoca Brands is an indication of the institutional support of intersectionality between gaming, interoperability, and Web3 applications based on Bitcoin.
Portal also has G-20 as a strategic and ecosystem partner, and this will help Portal expand its infrastructure and access developers on a larger scale. Collectively, these strategic alliances will be able to speed up the Portal roadmap and establish it as a cross-chain gaming infrastructure layer.
BLIFE’s Bitcoin Ecosystem Joins Portal Infrastructure
During the last two years, BLIFE had been working on increasing the use of Web3 on Bitcoin with infrastructure and consumer-facing products. These are BLIFE.ID, which is the first identity passport written on Bitcoin itself, and Odin.fun, a fast-growing memecoin trading platform. With these offerings, tens of thousands of Bitcoin users have been onboarded into Web3 by BLIFE and it has developed one of the largest Bitcoin-centric-user networks with an emphasis on games and cultural experience.
The community is seen to be in addition to the already existing cross-chain audience of Portal which would form a wider and more varied audience that developers with interoperable gaming applications will target.
Beyond Bridge Strengthens Bitcoin Connectivity
One strategic asset that Portal acquires as a result of the merger is Beyond, a tri-directional Bitcoin Layer 1 bridge that BLIFE purchased in mid-2025. Beyond is already getting ready to launch its mainnet and will join the interoperability stack of Portal. Being live, it will offer native Bitcoin connectivity and proprietary cross-chain bridging capability.
This will establish Portal as a possible gateway to Bitcoin users interested in experiencing Web3 gaming without leaving the Bitcoin world. Beyond integration is also likely to benefit chain liquidity routing and asset mobility.
Portal’s Vision for Unified Web3 Gaming
The long-term mission of Portal is to bring all blockchains, liquidity pools, and on-chain games together in one universal liquidity layer. It has an ecosystem with Portal Hub, a discovery and interoperability platform that can make it easier to access Web3 games, and Portal Pay, a cross-chain payment layer enabling users to pay with any given asset and merchants to receive a different one.
The ecosystem is based on the PORTAL token, an omnichain fungible token with a total supply of one billion, which allows transactions, governance engagement, and staking.
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