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Propy launches NFT platform in the US, allowing real-world property to be bought as an NFT

TechCrunch

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. Propy’s plan is to scale this offering globally, providing a single framework for purchasing real estate using blockchain technology.

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SmartZip Brings Real Estate Data to the Blockchain with Chainlink

CTOvision

SmartZip is excited to announce that they will join Chainlink’s market-leading decentralized oracle network by launching their own Chainlink node. The Chainlink node serves as secure blockchain middleware that makes existing SmartZip APIs compatible across leading blockchain networks.

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Blockchain breakthroughs: A tech revolution told in whitepapers

CIO

Blockchain is one of the great blindsides in the history of technology. The basic idea of leveraging blockchain to build Turing machines was introduced there. Smart contracts are so called because they represent a contract on the network—they specify what are valid and binding contracts for the participants.

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Sila banks $13M to offer single API for developing financial products, services

TechCrunch

The company was founded in 2018 by Shamir Karkal, Angela Angelovska, Isaac Hines and Alex Lipton to simplify digital payments and storage in a regulatory compliant way and build on blockchain technology. It was acquired by BBVA in 2014 for $117 million and shuttered earlier this year. There is a massive wave of fintechs emerging in the U.S.,

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Blockchain in Real Estate: A Comprehensive Overview of Use Cases and Benefits

Openxcell

Blockchains are most familiar because of cryptocurrency. Digital coins are not the only potential use of blockchain. The real estate industry is one of the most highly anticipated uses of blockchain. billion by 2025, and blockchain solutions can help a lot in the property business. What is Blockchain?

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Q3 outlook forecasts cloudy days ahead for fintech M&A

TechCrunch

Last week, Paystand — a blockchain-enabled B2B payments startup — announced it had acquired Mexican fintech Yaydoo — creating a new unicorn in the resulting new entity. has a legacy, centralized financial infrastructure that needs to be disrupted and re-imagined by fintechs with blockchain technology. and Mexico. and Mexico.

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Sequoia and Andreessen Horowitz invested more in fintech than any other sector in 2022

TechCrunch

A16z backed 49 companies in the fintech space last year and its top three fintech targets were payments (28%), blockchain (22%) and digital lending (12%). While blockchain and crypto arguably fall under the fintech category, I usually leave analysis of those segments to our crypto team, so I won’t go into a16z’s blockchain investments.

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