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Utopia Labs is building an operating system for DAOs

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If you’re not familiar with the DAO explosion happening, what we’re seeing is communities come together around a thesis that in the past may have required an LLC or C-corp structure in order to execute instead turning to blockchain solutions. Basically, company structure governed by a smart contract instead of legacy legal structures.

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Stacked gets $13M to be the Twitch for web3 gamers

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Few areas in tech today are as polarized as the blockchain gaming space. Before the debate is settled, the ecosystem around blockchain games is already getting built and funded. ” Gaming vets promise to make blockchain games fun and sustainable. “But prices are being normalized.”

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Building the bridge between Web 2.0 and web3

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It’s too early to predict all the implications of the recent Ethereum blockchain Merge, but it definitely addresses the most frequent (and valid) criticism of web3 regarding excessive energy consumption. with what’s most exciting about web3. While Web 2.0 In a similar way, web3 advocates should recognize that Web 2.0’s

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Cent, the platform that Jack Dorsey used to sell his first tweet as an NFT, raises $3M

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But in late 2020, Cent’s small, San Francisco-based team created Valuables , an NFT market for tweets, and by March, the small blockchain startup was thrown a serendipitous curveball. The NFT also includes a link to the tweet, though the linked content lives outside the blockchain. Image Credits: Cent (opens in a new window). .”

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Kenyan fintech Pezesha raises $11M backed by Women’s World Banking, Cardano parent IOG

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Charles Hoskinson, the co-founder of IOG and Cardano, while commenting on their investment in Pezesha, said in a statement that, “Facilitating the movement of capital into emerging markets to support economic growth and job creation is a core promise of blockchain and cryptocurrencies. Image Credits: Pezesha.

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Amid crypto’s talent war, Encode Club mints new web3 developers

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Blockchain startups and protocols are fighting to onboard and train more engineers — an even tougher undertaking in a world where developing on Ethereum vs. Solana vs. Polkadot vs. another blockchain can require completely different programming skill sets. Crypto-savvy developers are in short supply these days.

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Early Coinbase backer Garry Tan is keeping the “vast majority” of his shares because of this deal

TechCrunch

We were actually the first seed investors and largest institutional holder of stock in Bison Trails [a firm that specializes in building blockchain infrastructure for banks and other companies] and was bought by Coinbase late last year [though the deal was announced in January for undisclosed terms]. They started with an OS.