TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Selected from the most competitive batch in TC history, selected founders from across the globe will pitch on the virtual stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021. To watch the pitches, join us at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 here. With just over a 1.5% acceptance rate, the startups in this year’s cohort are phenomenal. Session 1: 10:45 a.m.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

billion fund the other day is a reminder of the scale of funds now available to startups looking to build on the blockchain. And, per The Block Research, that figure has grown by 39 so far in 2021. The market for crypto-focused investing is growing rapidly. News that Paradigm put together a $2.5 The result? There are a few reasons why.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

About three-fourths of the teams are focusing on NFTs, infrastructure or decentralized finance (DeFi), while the majority of the teams are building on layer-1 blockchains Ethereum, Polygon and Solana. channels like Twitter or Discord onto blockchains. It won the Fall 2021 Chainlink DeFi Hackathon competition. Stage: Seed round.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Avalanche , a relatively new blockchain with a focus on speed and low transactions costs, has completed a $230 million private sale of AVAX tokens to some well-known crypto funds. The Avalanche Foundation completed the private sale back in June 2021 and is disclosing it today. Everyone wants to fund the next Coinbase.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

HotStreak , a web3 platform for daily fantasy sports (DFS) contests, is wagering that the decentralized nature of the blockchain makes it an ideal solution for DFS platforms. It doubled in size in 2021 with over $52.7 The sports betting market in the US has grown rapidly as states begin loosening regulations around the industry.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

It’s been a wild 2021 for NFT auction marketplace OpenSea. One of the company’s clearer growth roadblocks has been infrastructure issues native to the Ethereum blockchain that its marketplace has been built around. billion valuation. NFT marketplace OpenSea raises $23 million from a16z.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Gharegozlou and the team at his startup, Dapper Labs , shipped the blockchain world’s first popular game, CryptoKitties, back in 2017. We caught up with the Dapper Labs CEO at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 last week to discuss the challenges facing the crypto space, the future of Ethereum and how quickly NFTs blew up this year.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

Last year we covered how early blockchain startup Propy planned to use the technology to smooth real-world real estate sales by introducing the concept of smart contracts. Here’s how it works: Propy says the record of the purchase is placed on the immutable blockchain and provides access to the legal documents signifying ownership.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2022

Cryptocurrency and blockchain had a breakout year in 2021. Have we reached a point where crypto and blockchain reach mass adoption? Even though DeFi, cryptocurrencies, blockchains, NFTs and a slew of other products came online in 2021, only about 1% of the world’s population has a unique crypto wallet. Contributor.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2021

another cryptocurrency company is having a blockbuster first quarter of 2021. Originally named Blockchain.info, the company first launched a blockchain explorer. As Coinbase is about to go public in the U.S., If you’ve been paying attention, you may remember that I wrote about Blockchain.com last month.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2022

What is this, 2021? And then, crypto: From news about a hot new crypto deal to NFTs coming to Instagram , it feels impossible to avoid the blockchain world these days. This week our comrade Mary Ann was off, so Natasha and Alex teamed up with Grace on the dials to chat through the week’s biggest news.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

While retail investors grew more comfortable buying cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum in 2021, the decentralized application world still has a lot of work to do when it comes to onboarding a mainstream user base. ” Andreessen Horowitz triples down on blockchain startups with massive $2.2 billion Crypto Fund III. .

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2021

In 2017, CryptoKitties — another trading game where users could swap digital cats — caught on among early adopters and brought the nascent Ethereum network to a crawl, inspiring the developers of the popular blockchain to make a number of key changes over time. Could NFTs reshape the entire online economy?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Venture capital data thus far in the third quarter indicates that investment into blockchain-focused startups is on pace to contract dramatically compared to recent quarters and the heady 2021 period. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. Read it every morning on TechCrunch+ or get The Exchange newsletter every Saturday.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

It hasn’t been a kind year for blockchain-based startup activity. Amid all of the above, many folks building or investing in blockchain-based assets and protocols have kept their chins up. The Terra/Luna mess comes to mind. As does the meltdown of Three Arrows Capital. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

French startup Voodoo has announced that it plans to make a significant investment in blockchain-powered mobile games. 2021 has been an important year for crypto gaming, with Axie Infinity popularizing the play-to-earn model. Voodoo already has 10 internal studios working on blockchain-powered games.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 26, 2021

Chainalysis , a blockchain analysis company, announced Friday it has closed on $100 million in Series D financing, doubling its valuation to over $2 billion. Chainalysis’ self-described mission is “to build trust in blockchains to promote more financial freedom with less risk.”. Is rising usage driving crypto’s recent price boom?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Data from a new venture capital fund and recent funding rounds underscore the pace of deal flow the crypto market has ahead of it, indicating that bets placed on blockchain-related startups will continue despite some wobbly indicators from the decentralized market. That there are believers in crypto in the market is not a surprise.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

DeFi aims to bridge the gap between decentralized blockchains and financial services. Xend Finance is plugging these gaps using blockchain technology. Its technology is built on Binance Smart Chain (BSC), a blockchain for developing high-performance decentralized applications. Image Credits: Xend Finance.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2022

European and North American edtech startups see funding triple in 2021. European, North American edtech startups see funding triple in 2021. In 1982, computer scientist David Chaum wrote a dissertation that described a blockchain protocol, along with the code for implementing it. Walter Thompson. Senior Editor, TechCrunch+.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2022

The company first filed for regulatory approval in December of 2021. TechCrunch reported on the New York-based startup’s $10 million Series A raise in mid-March 2021. million at the end of 2021. billion in 2021, growth of over 400% compared to 2019, according to Assia. That’s up from 10 million at the end of 2018, 12.3

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

In general, both gamers as well as industry professionals have disapproved blockchain implementations in video games, mostly over concerns over the environmental impact that the technology has. While indie studios are typically a risky bet for investments, parts of the cohort have attracted interest, especially NFT games in 2021.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

The NFT market was worth $41 billion at the end of last year — nearly as large as the conventional art market by some estimates — and it’s expected to nearly double in size by the end of 2022, according to a report released this week by blockchain analytics firm Nansen.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Stronghold offers a suite of fintech and blockchain APIs and services, including embedded payments, clearing and settlement, according to its website. The startup, founded in 2017, partnered with IBM to create a blockchain-based stablecoin for instant payment processing. It has raised $3.3 ”

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Originally announced in July 2021, the merger was supposed to close in Q4 2021. Behind the scenes, USDC is available on several different blockchains. Each blockchain provides different advantages and drawbacks depending on what you’re looking for when it comes to fees, speed and convenience.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2022

As The Exchange noted, the crypto startup economy — blockchain technology upstarts, trading platforms, web3 more generally, etc. billion in total investment during Q1 2022, an all-time high that bested the prior record (Q4 2021) by around $400 million. Recall that in its Q4 2021 earnings , Coinbase said the following:

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 3, 2022

And once again the dustup featured former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and a16z, the investing firm best known in recent years for its capital deployments into the blockchain domain. How does that contrast with web3, the blockchain projects that also trumpet the power and importance of decentralization? The VCs and their LPs do.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Maybe FTX was the real poster child for 2021’s startup excess by Alex Wilhelm originally published on TechCrunch. Instead of being reasonable advice to be bold in the face of uncertainty, it can also be used to make witless choices appear reasonable.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

Old Fashion Research ( OFR ) – whose name is derived from the classic cocktail – was founded in late 2021 by managing partners Ling Zhang, who was previously the vice president of M&A and investments at Binance, and Wayne Fu, former head of corporate development at the crypto exchange.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2022

Alex looks at Databricks, a company perhaps on the cusp of going public, and opines about what it might mean if it’s worth less today than it was in 2021, and comes to the conclusion that an IPO can wait. government warned that a North Korean state-backed hacker group is targeting blockchain organizations with trojanized cryptocurrency.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2021

The deal closed in February 2021 , leading to a very quick and surprising second-quarter profit. Earlier this month, blockchain-based lender Figure Technologies agreed to merge with mortgage firm Homebridge Financial Services, which has 180 retail branches and funded more than $25 billion in home loans in 2020.

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TechCrunch

MAY 1, 2021

Marketing in 2021 is emotional and not just transactional (2,200 words/9 minutes). Announcing the Agenda for TC Sessions: Mobility 2021. Announcing the Agenda for TC Sessions: Mobility 2021. The AWS for blockchain. How Klaviyo used data and no-code to transform owned marketing (3,000 words/12 minutes). Around TechCrunch.

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The Crazy Programmer

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

The Indian information Technology has attained about $194B in 2021 and has a 7% share in GDP growth. Blockchain Engineer. Blockchain is one of the leading technologies of the current era, especially for the banking and financing sector. And in the upcoming future, the career of blockchain engineer is going to be demanding.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2022

billion in its fourth fund targeting blockchain, bringing its total funds raised for blockchain-related companies to more than $7.6 That’s 20% less than 2021 ($214 billion), a touch below 2020 ($180 billion) and about 11% less than the $194 billion average raised annually since 2019. billion) and growth ($3.4

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2022

The NFT market, largely built on the Ethereum blockchain , has seen a rapid ascent in value and trading volumes as the value of ether, the native token of its chain, appreciated massively. From all-time highs set during Q4 2021, bitcoin is off by around 35%, ether 28% and Solana’s token about 40%. What’s going on?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2021

In the buildup to Coinbase’s flotation — and we’d argue especially after it released its blockbuster Q1 2021 results — there was a general expectation that the unicorn’s direct listing would provide a halo effect for other startups in the space. Let’s talk to some folks on the ground and hear what they are seeing.

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Crunchbase News

MARCH 20, 2025

Crypto and blockchain unicorns Weve also got some crypto and blockchain-related companies on the list. And San Francisco-based blockchain innovator Ripple has also reliably generated IPO buzz over the years. We havent seen much action for public offerings in this space since 2021 and early 2022. Not just U.S.

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