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Coinbase Ventures backs cross-chain infra Router Protocol

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A startup that has built a decentralized exchange as well as a cross-chain infrastructure to facilitate communication across layer 1 and layer 2 blockchain solutions is the latest to receive backing from Coinbase Ventures. So we have had all these blockchains coming up, but no connectivity between them.

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2022 crypto predictions from Prime Trust CFO Rodrigo Vicuna

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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. Rodrigo Vicuna.

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Daily Crunch: Russia fines Google $374M for ‘illegal content’ over its Ukraine invasion

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Like a museum, but on the blockchain : Despite his usual misgivings for crypto tech, we spot Haje covering a rare blockchain story, about Arkive, and its building of the world’s first decentralized museum. If you are looking for an easier way to get through the airport, Alaska Airlines is here to deliver. You can sign up here.).

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Cathay Pacific to take cloud journey to new heights

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Instead, the publicly held operator of Cathay Pacific Airlines and HK Express is shifting from migration to optimization mode in an effort to wrest additional benefits from its all-in cloud transformation. Cathay is also an early innovator in making use of blockchain’s digital ledger technology.

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What happened when this entrepreneur put her startup on hold to help Ukraine, and told VCs to donate

TechCrunch

Khi then temporarily stepped back from her day job at Zamna (which runs a blockchain system to securely share and verify passenger identities for airlines and travel authorities). Luckily, her role at Zamna meant she could also call many an airline CEO to talk about shipping supplies to countries bordering Ukriane, via fright airlines.

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Daily Crunch: Dronamics lands $40M pre-Series A for cargo drones that ‘can cross all of Europe in 12 hours or less’

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. — Christine and Haje The TechCrunch Top 3 It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a drone : Dronamics raised $40 million in a pre-Series A round (or really big seed round if you’d rather look at it that way) to start an autonomous cargo drone airline in Europe, Mike writes. Here’s who is hiring.

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What’s the Killer App for Web3?

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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.) Major airlines’ frequent-flier programs rake in billions of dollars each year.