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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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TechCrunch+ roundup: Allocating equity, unicorn traffic jam, blockchain gaming survey

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Unicorn exits augur poorly as Justworks delays IPO, citing ‘market conditions’ Blockchain gaming survey: 7 investors discuss regulation, opportunities and NFT hype. Blockchain gaming survey: 7 investors discuss regulation, opportunities and NFT hype. Despite blockchain gaming’s play-to-earn angle, I prefer to pay.

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Daily Crunch: New Starbucks Odyssey loyalty program ‘happens to be built on blockchain and web3’

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2001, a Starbucks Odyssey : In August, Starbucks got things percolating with plans for a blockchain-based loyalty program and NFT community. EV truck company Nikola merged with VectoIQ in a SPAC in June 2020 with a $29 billion valuation. May your week have all the right kinds of surprises in it! — Christine and Haje. Startups and VC.

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6 Tech Trends that will reshape Media & Entertainment in 2021

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By 2024, Over-the-top (OTT) media revenue is predicted to touch $158.84B that’s more than double the $67.8B Here’s our take on 6 technology trends that will influence the media and entertainment world this year. Blockchain to protect IP rights while leveraging viral distribution channels.

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Nestcoin raises $6.45M pre-seed to accelerate crypto and web3 adoption in Africa and frontier markets

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billion between July 2020 and June 2021, per research by New-York based research firm Chainalysis. 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. million pre-seed to that end.

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8 AI trends we’re watching in 2020

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That’s why we decided to merge the 2020 O’Reilly AI and Strata Data Conferences in San Jose, London, and New York. In 2020, we‘ll hear more about the essential role of other components and methods—including Bayesian and other model-based methods, tree search, evolution, knowledge graphs, simulation platforms, and others.

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Radar trends to watch: September 2020

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And almost no items about Blockchains, though the one item I’ve listed (China’s Blockchain Services Network) may be the most important item here. Sidetree is a protocol for decentralized public key infrastructure based on a blockchain. Social Media. They are way behind the Chinese. Operations.

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