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

TechCrunch

Alice Delahunt believes the future of fashion is in web3 and created Syky (pronounced “psy-key”) to put the wheels in motion. It felt like there was potential for virtual fashion and digital fashion to really take off,” she told TechCrunch. “I I believe that the luxury fashion houses of tomorrow are being built today.”.

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Star-studded digital avatar startup Genies launches NFT fashion marketplace

TechCrunch

The Los Angeles-based company partnered with NBA Top Shot NFT creator Dapper Labs to develop the storefront on Dapper’s Flow blockchain and debuted it to a group of invite-only beta users in December last year, TechCrunch reported at the time. ” Genies CEO and founder Akash Nigam.

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Thirdweb raises $24M at a $160M valuation from Haun Ventures, Shopify and Coinbase for its web3 development kit

TechCrunch

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. He’s now the CEO of thirdweb.

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What’s the Killer App for Web3?

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

If you reflect on the emerging-tech landscape, you see the following killer apps: Early-day internet: E-commerce. Today we have the three-layer cake that is blockchain-cryptocurrency-NFTs, plus this “metaverse” term that is itself very fuzzy. Blockchain is an absolutely terrible replacement for a relational database.

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

TechCrunch

Computers, the internet, fintech, artificial intelligence, any tech you can name ( except mobile tech) people in these regions have always had to play catch up. 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.

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Twig takes $35M to turn stuff you own into a way to pay

TechCrunch

Twig , a London-based fintech targeting Gen Z and younger Millennial consumers with an e-money account that gives them instant cash-outs on fashion and electronics they want to sell, has closed a $35 million Series A round of funding. For now it’s not in a hurry to turn into an actual bank, per Cupi.

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Insurance Technologies: 13 Disruptive Ideas to Change Insurance Companies with Telematics, Blockchain, Machine Learning, and APIs

Altexsoft

However, the forefront of innovations are insurtech startups and technology consulting companies which employ the power of AI, Blockchain, and IoT technologies. Personalized Insurance Pricing with IoT and Social Media. The old-fashioned style of risk assessment is to rely on impersonalized datasets. Self-Governance.

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