TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2022

Multi-asset social investment network and Robinhood competitor eToro has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Gatsby — a fintech startup which also aimed to go head to head against Robinhood — for $50 million in a cash and common stock deal. Ryan Belanger-Saleh, Gatsby Co-CEO, echoed Myers’ sentiments. V in a massive $10.4

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

AI is riding high on a curve of hype, which means some of the practical questions that might grow louder over time — the many costs (financial and social), the business models — may not be the most front of mind right now. is built on blockchain technology and it has created a FET token that will be used on its platform.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2022

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. Blockchain naturally comes to mind as a potential incentive mechanism.

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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. I believe that the luxury fashion houses of tomorrow are being built today.”.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

The founding team doesn’t have an awful lot to say about what exactly they’re building, except that it’s a “social layer” for consumers based around interacting with virtual spaces that capture the “spirit” of real-life geographies and cities.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

About three-fourths of the teams are focusing on NFTs, infrastructure or decentralized finance (DeFi), while the majority of the teams are building on layer-1 blockchains Ethereum, Polygon and Solana. What it does: Exclusive social clubs on top of NFTs. channels like Twitter or Discord onto blockchains. Stage: Seed round.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Revel , an NFT or “social collectibles” platform, raised $7.8 One way to describe Revel is a cross between Instagram and Robinhood, wrapped in social game economics,” Sideman said. Instagram is known as a social media platform while Robinhood is known as an investing and trading platform. (As Revel raises $7.8M

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Answers on an immutable blockchain transaction, please. More social media struggles : Though the subject matter was a downer, Paul wrote a great story about Meta’s confirmed layoffs of 11,000 employees, explaining what happened, why and what it means in the greater context of Meta’s future. The TechCrunch Top 3.

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TechCrunch

JULY 8, 2021

But the company later pivoted to create a social payments app. Circle became a sort of Venmo clone with some blockchain technology under the hood. Created in 2013, the company originally wanted to create a mainstream bitcoin payment platform. At some point, Circle even removed the ability to send and receive bitcoins. “We

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TechCrunch

JULY 30, 2021

How many stories are there of people trying to email some social network, and they don’t respond because they don’t have to?” In the long run, Yat’s CEO says the company plans to use blockchain technology as a way to become self-sovereign. You have many accounts, many usernames,” Jain said.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2021

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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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

The NFT market was worth $41 billion at the end of last year — nearly as large as the conventional art market by some estimates — and it’s expected to nearly double in size by the end of 2022, according to a report released this week by blockchain analytics firm Nansen.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2022

In the latest development, a startup called thirdweb — which has created a development toolkit to make it easier to build and launch web3 products such as blockchain games, NFTs, DAOs, marketplaces and more — has raised $24 million, a Series A that values the startup at $160 million. Projects are collectively generating $1.5

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TechCrunch

MAY 30, 2022

His career includes helping scale AZA (Bitpesa), a Nairobi-based platform that leverages bitcoin to facilitate cross-border remittances and where he first got introduced to crypto and blockchain technology. What this means is that celebrities do not have to rely on their social media following to drive transactions.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2022

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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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

His focus since the early 1980s, his company DigiCash sent the first digital payment in 1994, and he has since doubled down on blockchain and security. And he sees Web3 and blockchain as integral parts of that equation. . David Chaum is a giant in the realm of computer security and, not surprisingly, cryptocurrency.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

The company’s latest financing is part of an ongoing $200 million investment from Citi into technology creating social impact, and was led by its Spread Products Investment Technologies (SPRINT) team, the strategic investing arm of the bank’s Global Spread Products division.

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TechCrunch

MAY 28, 2022

Granted, much of that capital was probably raised before the crypto markets started tanking, but we unpacked the storied firm’s strategy and discussed a somewhat questionable investment it just made in a well-known grifter’s new blockchain startup (hint: he kinda looks like Jared Leto). follow the money. the week in web3.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

AUGUST 17, 2023

In comparison, Blockchain tech only arrived at the scene sometime in 2008, and is still considered comparatively ‘new’. Developers and companies alike are still learning how to adopt Blockchain. But, is a Blockchain conference enough to fulfill this goal of interaction, adoption, and learning? What are conferences?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

The widespread success of platforms ranging from Second Life to Roblox shows that people are open to virtual worlds where they can socialize, play games, exchange information, and share some laughs. To people who don’t live and breathe on the blockchain, the internet in its current state is the metaverse.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 21, 2023

Since Friend.tech opened its invite-only beta test 11 days ago, the decentralized social-focused app has quickly attracted a lot of users, even catching the attention of big name crypto influencers, NBA players and OnlyFans creators. But can it convert all the early hype to meaningful, lasting traction?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2022

She’s been immersed in web3 and blockchain tech ever since, dropping out of college and investing the ~$5,000 she had to her name in NFTs before starting a web3 company, Koop. Murillo describes a Koop as a “socioeconomic network,” contrasting it with traditional social networks.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Thirdweb was created by Social Chain founder Steven Bartlett and Furquan Rydhan, who was founding CTO of Bebo and AppLovin. They also say companies like Nike, Disney, Bumble and Meta are already itching to begin building apps and products, like blockchain games, NFT platforms, DAOs and creator projects, for the metaverse, web3 and NFT spaces.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2022

Four Tencent veterans want their offering.bit , an identity protocol built on the blockchain, to become the universal identification system in web3, like how emails and phone numbers became ubiquitous in Web 2.0, “They are treating.bit as a form of social cachet,” said Yeoh.

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Ooda Loop

AUGUST 23, 2024

Built on the Decentralized Social Networking Protocol (DSNP) developed by Project Liberty Labs, Frequency gives people control of their own data, privacy, and safety. Together with MeWe, a privacy-first social media platform, they’re building a new internet that empowers users and gives them ownership over their digital identities.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Non-fungible tokens have been around for two years, but these NFTs, one-of-one digital items on the Ethereum and other blockchains, are suddenly becoming a more popular way to collect visual art, primarily, whether it’s an animated cat or an NBA clip or virtual furniture. The proof is in the blockchain.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Launching today in beta, Playground is a social platform that seeks to help people discover and develop community while empowering creators to monetize their audience. Of course, social media already creates communities, from neighborhood book exchange groups to One Direction stan Twitter. But life online can be isolating , too.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2022

Web3Auth, a non-custodial key infrastructure solution for Web3 apps and wallets, wants to solve these problems by leveraging social accounts and devices that mainstream users already own to enable users to manage their keys intuitively. The fresh capital brings its total raised to $15 million since its inception in 2019.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2020

It’s one reason why the region is home to many fintech businesses born elsewhere that need proximity to a large banking ecosystem, as well as the blockchain/crypto crowd, which have found a highly amenable regulatory environment in Zug, right next door to Zurich. Are there startups that you wish you would see in the industry but don’t?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

These founders represent the next iteration of products and possibilities across the blockchain, cryptocurrency, DeFi, NFT and web3 ecosystem. Gall3ry 3 : A way for NFT owners to show off their collection on social media. Check out the five listed below, and learn more about the other exhibitors here. We can’t wait to see you in Miami!

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Bademosi was the Director of Binance Labs in Africa, overseeing the incubation and development of blockchain projects when he decided to start Bundle as CEO in 2019. Bademosi thinks this is because crypto trading alone cannot drive mass adoption of blockchain and crypto native applications.

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Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Many topics that are hot today were barely on anyone’s radar a short while ago, from the blockchain and holacracy , to social performance management and trimodal IT , to name four of a great many important topics that have been significant recently. Tracking Digital/Social Innovations with Business Impact. Blockchain.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2021

StreetCred is building a blockchain-based marketplace for location data. When I spoke to Meech in 2018, he said his goal was to “open up and decentralize” location data by building a blockchain-based marketplace where users are rewarded for helping to collect that data.

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InfoWorld

JUNE 11, 2024

In a past column , I talked about how the fat cats of social media profit from all of the value that normal folks like you and I provide. Social media sites have complete control over the attention-creating value that we provide for them, and give us little to no say over how that content is managed.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Mammoth, a recently launched Mastodon app that’s trying to make it easier on users who want to join the decentralized social web, has a notable financial backer. “This is like a digitally native social system. . “This is like a digitally native social system. “It reminded me of Firefox 0.7,

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2022

They are pieces of code on a blockchain, which means they can be programmed to have various qualities. Pearpop introduced dynamic NFTs earlier this year that gain value as a social media post goes viral. Revise is initially launching with the Polygon blockchain, but plans to expand to other blockchains in the future.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2022

Faster blockchain transactions + privacy = Espresso ? ESGgo wants to measure ESG performance : Environmental, social and governance (ESG) goals are hot these days, as corporations want to at least appear to be giving a crap about more than just their near-term cash flows. million seed round.

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