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Athleisure icon Ty Haney raises $9.8M in fresh funding for her blockchain rewards startup

TechCrunch

The startup uses blockchain technology to help brands build customer loyalty without having to rely on buying up pricey ads on third-party social media platforms, Haney explained. Brands use TYB, which is built on the Avalanche blockchain, to build their own on-chain communities of loyal customers, Haney said.

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Makers Fund-backed virtual social app MEW woos comic fans in the US

TechCrunch

Raven Gao didn’t set up virtual social platform MEW to ride the metaverse wave. He began working on MEW in mid-2019 with a Tencent veteran because he wanted to build a virtual safe haven for socially awkward introverts like himself. The world today has no shortage of startups claiming to be building virtual worlds and metaverses.

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LOVE unveils a modern video messaging app with a business model that puts users in control

TechCrunch

These concepts have emerged as part of bigger trends towards a sort of “ web 3.0, ” or next phase of internet development, where services are decentralized, user privacy is elevated, data is protected, and transactions take place on digital ledgers, like a blockchain, in a more distributed fashion.

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Digital listening reveals 3 leading innovation drivers

CIO

The listening centered on conversations about emerging technologies and use cases associated with innovation, such as artificial intelligence, metaverse, blockchain, robotics, Web 3.0, It surpasses blockchain and metaverse projects, which are viewed as experimental or in the pilot stage, especially by established enterprises.

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Banking on customer experience and security via technology-based innovation

CIO

Regulatory requirements will temper developments in these two areas: Technology, banking, and innovation To accelerate innovation and improvements in customer experience, security, and privacy, banks are turning to three technology-based capabilities: blockchain, artificial intelligence (AI), and metaverse.

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What’s the Killer App for Web3?

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Data science/ML/AI: Advertising. Advertising. Advertising. Today we have the three-layer cake that is blockchain-cryptocurrency-NFTs, plus this “metaverse” term that is itself very fuzzy. Blockchain is an absolutely terrible replacement for a relational database. Blockchain is your friend.)

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Binance taps TikTok’s mostly silent superstar Khaby Lame to explain how crypto works

TechCrunch

” Lame has also weighed in on emerging (and potentially fleeting) technology by partnering with Meta to advertise the metaverse — he appeared in a video on the tech giant’s corporate accounts alongside Mark Zuckerberg. He later added, “I don’t want to sell someone something that might not be valuable.”

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