TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2022

If blockchain technology is to reach true mass adoption, it will have to become cheaper and more efficient. Low transaction throughput on some of the most popular blockchains, most notably Ethereum, has kept gas fees high and hindered scalability. million funding round last week. . million funding round last week. .

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2022

Tenderly, a startup that aims to make it easier for web3 developers “of all skill sets” to build blockchain products, has raised $40 million in a Series B round of funding – just months after closing on its Series A. In fact, the company says that it works with the majority of the top 100 ethereum projects.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2023

. “It’s easy to blame Ticketmaster and say it’s their fault,” its former CEO Fred Rosen, who ran the company from 1982 to 1998, told CBC Radio in January. Can blockchain be the cure? “What determines pricing is demand.” ” Regulators in many countries beg to disagree. Earlier this year, the U.S.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 12, 2022

There’s no way for blockchain-based businesses, financial service providers or banks to bypass Know Your Customer (KYC) processes. With the advent of blockchain technologies, companies are realizing that there are better, more efficient KYC solutions that let them avoid having to collect and store personal information.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

People have a tendency to couple crypto markets with blockchain games and content, but actually it’s only as appropriate as linking tech stocks on Nasdaq with the businesses of tech companies. “The current market environment is funny,” Robby Yung, CEO of Animoca Brands , said to TechCrunch. In May, over 1.15

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The company’s product helps generate the AI data in a secure way that allows clients to upload real user data and securely transmit and convert it without a copy of the data landing on BetterData’s servers. User data is tokenized and stored on a blockchain which is only accessible with a user’s private encryption keys.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Scott Kirsner is CEO and co-founder of Innovation Leader , a research and events firm that focuses on innovation in Global 1000 companies, and a longtime business columnist for The Boston Globe. Big companies, often the target customers for startups, live in a much more near-term world. Startups need to live in the future.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

is built on blockchain technology and it has created a FET token that will be used on its platform. The funding is a substantial amount in the current market, and it is coming from a single company, DWF Labs , an incubator that is connected to an entity called Digital Wave Finance. ” Blockchain startup Fetch.ai

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2023

Jia, a blockchain-based fintech providing loans to micro and small businesses in emerging markets, has raised $4.3 Jia, a blockchain-based fintech providing loans to micro and small businesses in emerging markets, has raised $4.3 Jia, a blockchain-based lender of small businesses in emerging markets, raises $4.3

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2023

Spatial Labs , a web3 infrastructure and hardware company, announced today the closing of a $10 million seed round led by Blockchain Capital with participation from Marcy Venture Partners, the firm co-founded by Jay-Z. The metaverse to us is not a virtual space that people go to spend time in. .”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2023

She launched the company in November after a career in marketing at luxury fashion houses, serving in roles including chief digital and content officer at Ralph Lauren and digital and social marketing director at Burberry. She plans for the future marketplace to be a revenue driver for the company. Image Credits: Dean Isidro. “It

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

Much of the world’s attention around blockchain is on the highs and lows of cryptocurrency values. One of the startups working toward this vision is Zimbabwe’s FlexID, which is building a blockchain-based identity system for those excluded from the banking system due to their lack of identity documents.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The company also plans to rollout ETF-style offerings, allowing uses to invest in teams, favorite ownership groups and league divisions. The company launched its testnet last quarter, and plans to add the FIFA World Cup 2022 market, and extend the offering in its existing leagues NFL, NBA and Premier League, by the end of this year.

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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. The settlement period for payments on its platform is 10 seconds, according to the company’s website. It doubled in size in 2021 with over $52.7

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2021

Founded in 2017 and owned by blockchain infrastructure firm ICHX, iSTOX’s goal is to open private capital opportunities, including startups, hedge funds and private debt, that are usually limited to a small group of high-net-worth individuals to more institutional and accredited investors. (It million in funding.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

Oftentimes these events are filled with traditional seed-stage tech companies based in Silicon Valley. Startups from all stages have joined our cohort, from those with just an idea to billion-dollar companies.”. Here’s the breakdown behind the 16 startups: Company name: Lulo. Company name: LiquiFi. Company name: fam.

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Ooda Loop

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Payment protocol Aeon has introduced an authorization payment feature built on the TON blockchain. “By By contributing to the TON ecosystem’s infrastructure, Aeon enhances the usability of blockchain technology in everyday scenarios,” the Singapore-based company said in a news release Friday (Nov.

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Ooda Loop

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Microsoft and Atom Computing, a technology firm based in California, recently announced a breakthrough in quantum computing that could pave the way for a proof-of-work transformation in the world of blockchain mining.

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Crunchbase News

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Bellevue, Washington-based Story Protocol , a blockchain technology to protect intellectual property rights for content creators, raised an $80 million Series B led by Andreessen Horowitz that valued the startup at $2.25 New York’s Web3 metaverse and L1 blockchain hub ID Planet raised an $80 million Series B funding.

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TechCrunch

JULY 23, 2021

The Scotts Valley, California-based company is using cloud technology and the Ethereum blockchain as the engine for its Paystand Bank Network that enables business-to-business payments with zero fees. The company is seeing a 200% increase in monthly network payment value and customers grew two-fold in the past year.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2023

Startups and VC It’s a tough time to be a richly priced company that didn’t go public when the getting was good. Not only are there fewer later-stage players with the resources and appetite to support such companies (e.g., Not only are there fewer later-stage players with the resources and appetite to support such companies (e.g.,

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Ooda Loop

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Screven County, Georgia made history on November 5, 2024 when it became the first county in the United States to use the Bitcoin blockchain to safeguard the results of its elections. The Screven County Board of Elections worked with Simple Proof, a U.S.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2021

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. In March of this year, SoFi agreed to acquire Golden Pacific Bancorp (GBP) for about $22.3

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

As some of the most popular cryptocurrencies reach all-time highs, plenty of new users and decentralized app developers are embracing the Ethereum network and quickly discovering that the blockchain remains a pretty crowded place to do business. Offchain Labs raises $120 million to fix Ethereum’s shortcomings with its Arbitrum product.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2022

Engineers are the bedrock of any tech product, and blockchains are no exception. As the race between different chains heats up, communities of loyalists are duking it out to attract developers to their blockchain of choice in hopes that doing so will turbocharge growth.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2021

The company has been building a new DeFi (decentralized finance) protocol on top of the Ethereum blockchain. Other new investors include Republic, Advanced Blockchain, P2P Validator, Rarestone, Ethereal Ventures and their limited partners. Element Finance has raised a $32 million Series A round at a $320 million valuation.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2021

To that end, Ejara , a one-year-old company founded by Nelly Chatue-Diop, has raised $2 million to pioneer the usage of crypto and investment services in the region. ” In 2015, she got acquainted with blockchain and thought it was the perfect technology to solve the problems she faced while growing up. So it stayed on my mind.”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2022

The company is choosing zkSync as its Layer 2 scaling implementation. It is a non-custodial wallet, meaning that you’re in charge of your funds and everything you do is recorded on the blockchain. It is a non-custodial wallet, meaning that you’re in charge of your funds and everything you do is recorded on the blockchain.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2022

And yet, NFT startup Cryptoys is raising tens of millions of dollars with the goal of building a blockchain-based toy company that can expose younger users to the ideas of digital ownership and NFT mechanics. With that as background, it might not seem like the best time to launch an NFT platform, let alone one geared toward children.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2021

We talked yesterday with Simpson — who joined a16z after first backing some of the same startups, including the blockchain infrastructure company Dapper Labs and the global payment platform Celo — to learn more about what’s happening at the intersection of crypto and gaming. Our chat, edited for length, follows.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

As proof that web3 is not some passing trend, blockchain infrastructure startup Alchemy announced today that it has closed on a $200 million Series C1 equity round that values the company at $10.2 For the unacquainted, web3 refers to a decentralized web based on the blockchain. The company basically powers the entire industry.”.

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TechCrunch

MAY 29, 2022

At Lux, Isford invests in the companies working behind the scenes to make sure crypto exchanges are secure and reliable enough to avoid being hacked. Isford is optimistic that through the massive inflows of investment into web3 startups in the past year, companies will be able to build more reliable solutions.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

But Paper , a crypto-focused payments processing company launched in February, is working to make buying, using and holding NFTs easier for the everyday customer or fan trying to buy a digital collectible, James Sun, co-founder and CEO of the company, told TechCrunch. Just a couple of months after launching, Paper closed a $7.3

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TechCrunch

JULY 30, 2021

domain, and the company will provide your with your own y.at Yats with one or two emojis are so expensive that you have to contact the company directly to buy them, but you can easily find a four- or five-emoji identity that’ll only put you out $4. Instead, they can make one-time purchase from Yat, which owns the Y.at

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

This week, Adam Neumann made his post-WeWork debut, co-founding a blockchain-based carbon credits market, and — more impressively — raising $70 million in funding for it, about half of which came from VCs with the other portion coming from a private token sale. Chain Reaction podcast episodes come out every Thursday at 12:00 p.m.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 1, 2022

For companies in the NFT space, the news is likely unwelcome. The larger blockchain world is in a period of correction , but to see key NFT market metrics fall as quickly as we have makes us wonder what could reignite demand. Trading continues, but at what appears to be a far slower pace.

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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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