TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Africans and people in emerging markets missed out on the first set of opportunities that technological advancements brought to the world. Africa’s cryptocurrency market grew by 1,200% to $105.6 billion between July 2020 and June 2021, per research by New-York based research firm Chainalysis. million pre-seed to that end.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2022

Cryptocurrency and blockchain had a breakout year in 2021. ust look at the numbers: 80 million unique crypto wallets; Bitcoin and Ether grew 60% and 407%, respectively; El Salvador adopted bitcoin as official currency; the NFT market generated $2.5 Have we reached a point where crypto and blockchain reach mass adoption?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Today at TechCrunch’s crypto-focused event in Miami , OpenSea CEO Devin Finzer discussed his business and the future market for non-fungible tokens. The digital assets, better known by the acronym “NFTs,” saw their stock rise during the 2021-era crypto boom. Can gaming resurrect the NFT market?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Avalanche , a relatively new blockchain with a focus on speed and low transactions costs, has completed a $230 million private sale of AVAX tokens to some well-known crypto funds. The Avalanche Foundation completed the private sale back in June 2021 and is disclosing it today. Everyone wants to fund the next Coinbase.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

It hasn’t been a kind year for blockchain-based startup activity. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. Amid all of the above, many folks building or investing in blockchain-based assets and protocols have kept their chins up. The Terra/Luna mess comes to mind. As does the meltdown of Three Arrows Capital.

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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. The pitch: The NFT market has exploded and the communities surrounding them have flourished, co-founder Chris Tam said.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Venture capital data thus far in the third quarter indicates that investment into blockchain-focused startups is on pace to contract dramatically compared to recent quarters and the heady 2021 period. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. Data from a new venture capital fund and recent funding rounds underscore the pace of deal flow the crypto market has ahead of it, indicating that bets placed on blockchain-related startups will continue despite some wobbly indicators from the decentralized market.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2022

As The Exchange noted, the crypto startup economy — blockchain technology upstarts, trading platforms, web3 more generally, etc. — was busy partying while the rest of startup land was buckling under a falling stock market, limited exit opportunities, and a dramatic repricing of the value of software revenues.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

Last night, Coinbase’s first-quarter earnings report sent its already depressed stock plummeting, causing the former public-market darling’s shares to fall further beneath the $100 per-share mark. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. That’s far, far below the $368.90 Let’s go!

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2022

I could spend hours discussing early-stage startup operations and community-based marketing, but deal flow is my blind spot. European and North American edtech startups see funding triple in 2021. European, North American edtech startups see funding triple in 2021. In blow to unicorns, the global IPO market continues to soften.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2021

In 2017, CryptoKitties — another trading game where users could swap digital cats — caught on among early adopters and brought the nascent Ethereum network to a crawl, inspiring the developers of the popular blockchain to make a number of key changes over time. Could NFTs reshape the entire online economy?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2023

Image Credits: ChatX “I’ve been playing with AI text-to-image models since Disco Diffusion first appeared in September 2021,” Kostic told TechCrunch in an email interview. For example, PromptSea “tokenizes” prompts on a blockchain , creating an immutable record of each prompt’s creation, trade and sale.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. Maybe FTX was the real poster child for 2021’s startup excess by Alex Wilhelm originally published on TechCrunch. Read it every morning on TechCrunch+ or get The Exchange newsletter every Saturday.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2022

Today, further decline in the mortgage market prompted Better to execute yet another round of layoffs in less than five months, cutting its original headcount in half. What am I worth, part 1 : That’s a difficult question right now as the market makes corrections and companies make their own corrections vis a vis their valuations.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

Old Fashion Research ( OFR ) – whose name is derived from the classic cocktail – was founded in late 2021 by managing partners Ling Zhang, who was previously the vice president of M&A and investments at Binance, and Wayne Fu, former head of corporate development at the crypto exchange. We are very Southern Hemisphere-focused.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Combining his experience as an operator and institutional investor, Abelson runs Irving as a multistrategy platform making long-term durable investments in both the public and private markets. billion in its fourth fund targeting blockchain, bringing its total funds raised for blockchain-related companies to more than $7.6

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

While retail investors grew more comfortable buying cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum in 2021, the decentralized application world still has a lot of work to do when it comes to onboarding a mainstream user base. ” Andreessen Horowitz triples down on blockchain startups with massive $2.2 Image via Phantom.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2022

The market for non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, may be slowing after NFT activity grew sharply in 2021 and into the new year. The health of the NFT market is itself a fascinating data project. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. In the crypto world, it’s good sense to never say never. What does the data say?

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CIO

MAY 16, 2023

The listening centered on conversations about emerging technologies and use cases associated with innovation, such as artificial intelligence, metaverse, blockchain, robotics, Web 3.0, It surpasses blockchain and metaverse projects, which are viewed as experimental or in the pilot stage, especially by established enterprises.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The holiday shopping season is coming: How are growth marketers preparing? With only three weeks left to the start of the holiday shopping season, Miranda Halpern checked in with several growth marketers to find out how they’re advising their clients to prepare for supply chain disruptions. Bring on the low-cost NFTs.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Nillion, a web3 startup aiming to build a non-blockchain decentralized network, closed an oversubscribed round of more than $20 million, the company exclusively told TechCrunch. Nillion is a deep technology infrastructure project,” Andrew Yeoh, the company’s founding chief marketing officer, told TechCrunch.

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Crunchbase News

APRIL 18, 2024

Editor’s note: For more Web3 coverage, visit Crunchbase’s Web3 Tracker , where we track startups, investors and funding news in the Web3, cryptocurrency and blockchain space, powered by Crunchbase ’s live, comprehensive data. However, venture dollars are still down year to year and well off the highs seen in 2021-22.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Crypto exchange and marketplace Reku has been riding the wave with what it says are the lowest fees on the market, and a platform that is aimed at both newcomers and experienced traders. The company generated $3 billion in gross transaction value in 2021 and is profitable. Reku’s team. An example of this is NFTs,” he said. “On

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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

MARCH 18, 2022

What is this, 2021? All Raise’s new CEO : The work of diversifying the venture capital market is far from over, and one group working to move the needle not only has plans to change the industry — but also her own team. Nope, just the latest capital infusion for the no-code website company.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Stronghold offers a suite of fintech and blockchain APIs and services, including embedded payments, clearing and settlement, according to its website. The startup, founded in 2017, partnered with IBM to create a blockchain-based stablecoin for instant payment processing. It has raised $3.3 billion, the company says. ”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 26, 2021

Chainalysis , a blockchain analysis company, announced Friday it has closed on $100 million in Series D financing, doubling its valuation to over $2 billion. Chainalysis’ self-described mission is “to build trust in blockchains to promote more financial freedom with less risk.”. Is rising usage driving crypto’s recent price boom?

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2022

While the 2021 venture cycle was still booming , every startup sector felt hot. Even more, the pendulum of relative power has swung back toward venture capitalists away from founders, startup prices are falling, and some ideas that ruled the roost in 2021 are in disarray. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2023

Along with increasing regulatory scrutiny and skeptical investors, capital deployment has pulled back significantly from the highs of 2021, which has left many young startups struggling to raise funds. This capital crunch is affecting the Bitcoin ecosystem as well.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2022

The crypto market is showing no signs of slowing down as funds and investors alike continue to deploy massive amounts of capital into the ecosystem. To date, Dragonfly has invested in almost 60 companies through its previous funds launched in 2018 and 2021 for $100 million and $225 million, respectively.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2022

This is a blockchain pitch. The pitch deck is for Simba Chain , a blockchain company that raised $25 million in a Series A. If you follow me on Twitter , you’ve probably noticed that of every three or four tweets, one has me making fun of blockchain tech. Market slide (TAM/SAM). Market slide (SOM).

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2022

This was another blockbuster year for global venture funding, with 2021 breaking records across the board. A record number of companies went public in 2021, with many at huge valuations: 238 companies debuted on the public markets last year valued above $1 billion. Christine Tsai. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 22, 2022

Its founder, Sam Bankman-Fried, has been a key player in the crypto market in recent months, involved in several deals as the decentralized economy weathers a slowdown amid a barrage of bad news. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. Read it every morning on TechCrunch+ or get The Exchange newsletter every Saturday.

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Xicom

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

What does this hold for 2021? 2021 will be defined by a fresh new class of technologies all set to graduate to the sidelines to centre stage. Without any further ado, here are top promising digital revolutions that I believe will be the most significant in 2021. Only time will tell!

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Trigent

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

The number of OTT service users in the United States is expected to reach 198 million by 2021. The UK Streaming Wars report shows that viewers are now increasingly open to ad-supported video options, so the onus is on the digital advertising industry to help marketers meet consumer needs with an enjoyable experience.”

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Crunchbase News

JULY 25, 2024

Editor’s note: For more Web3 coverage, visit Crunchbase’s Web3 Tracker , where we track startups, investors and funding news in the Web3, cryptocurrency and blockchain space, powered by Crunchbase ’s live, comprehensive data. The round is reminiscent of the 2021-22 era when layer-1 protocols like Aptos Labs raised big.

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