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Makers Fund-backed virtual social app MEW woos comic fans in the US

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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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Athleisure icon Ty Haney raises $9.8M in fresh funding for her blockchain rewards startup

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The startup uses blockchain technology to help brands build customer loyalty without having to rely on buying up pricey ads on third-party social media platforms, Haney explained. Brands use TYB, which is built on the Avalanche blockchain, to build their own on-chain communities of loyal customers, Haney said.

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Luxury fashion meets blockchain on Syky, the Seven Seven Six-backed web3 platform

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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. It felt like there was potential for virtual fashion and digital fashion to really take off,” she told TechCrunch. “I

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Foursquare founder banks funding for mystery 3D social network startup

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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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Meet the newest crypto builders from web3 accelerator Alliance DAO’s demo day

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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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3 views: Is the metaverse for work or play?

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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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Yat thinks emoji ‘identities’ can be a thing, and it has $20M in sales to back it up

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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.