TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

The speed at which gaming has proliferated is matched only by the pace of new buzzwords inundating the ecosystem. The allure is obvious, as the relationship between the blockchain, metaverse and gaming makes sense. Whatever your opinion of either, I believe they both have an interrelated future in gaming.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

There has been stiff backlash against NFTs in video games since they first started popping up. In general, both gamers as well as industry professionals have disapproved blockchain implementations in video games, mostly over concerns over the environmental impact that the technology has.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

This aligns employee incentives toward aggregate corporate success, something that employers want because they are in the game of paying people as little as they can while still hitting human capital quality benchmarks and not having too much employee churn. Blockchain gaming survey: 7 investors discuss regulation, opportunities and NFT hype.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

This February, Africa and emerging market-focused Nestcoin raised a pre-seed round to build, operate and invest in its web3 applications, including crypto content platform Breach Club and gaming guild Metaverse Magna (MVM). Gaming presents a unique opportunity to help young Africans earn and lift themselves and their families out of poverty.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Less than a year ago, WildWorks, the makers of the kid’s virtual world game Animal Jam , launched its next big effort with a game aimed at Gen Z teens, called Feral. However, he says his opinion has since changed as he’s learned more about blockchain developments beyond Ethereum.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Meet Tatum , a blockchain infrastructure startup that wants to make it much easier to develop your own blockchain-based product. While blockchain development was quite easy at first, it quickly became much more complicated as new blockchains emerged. There are now dozens of different blockchains.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

Sequoia Games , a new game studio launching out of stealth, is aiming for a hit with its tabletop AR game that’s looking to find an audience in a post-Top Shot world. With mechanics similar to other popular trading card games, users can augment those tiles with power-up tiles. Image via Sequoia Games.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 30, 2023

Sorare is a fantasy sports gaming experience based on NFTs, or non-fungible tokens. Each card is registered as a unique token on the Ethereum blockchain. While MLB season hasn’t started yet, Sorare’s NBA game is already live. It works more or less like the fantasy football game.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

HotStreak , a web3 platform for daily fantasy sports (DFS) contests, is wagering that the decentralized nature of the blockchain makes it an ideal solution for DFS platforms. Dean and his team aren’t the only founders who have recognized room for blockchain-based innovation in the sports betting space.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Frontrunner is a zero gas fee, decentralized sports prediction market built on the blockchain, employing Injective, a protocol built on COSMOS, to support decentralized financial markets and order books, usinsing blockchains like Ethereum and Solana. They will also be able to buy and sell using stablecoins.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

NFTs became synonymous with neo-wealth bubbling up from the blockchain economy, as a number of image collections that employed the digital asset format reached pop-culture status and eye-watering prices. First, gaming. The union of gaming and digital assets has proven to be a popular theme for press coverage and founder activity.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

If you follow tech press, you’ve probably noticed more outlets covering the blockchain-based, play-to-earn trend, wherein individuals playing crypto-powered games can ostensibly earn a living off their gaming skills if they earn assets within the game or tokens that they can then sell for “real” money.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

Consumer credit reporting agency TransUnion recently announced it had invested an undisclosed sum in Spring Labs, which is building out a blockchain-based data-sharing platform. And they said ‘if we’re going to help develop your business into something very significant, we’d like to have skin in the game.’ ”.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

Real-life fashion brands use NFTs for marketing in virtual worlds like Minecraft , plus several Atari and Microsoft video games. The fundamental value NFTs offer to bridge virtual fashion items with video games is the option to secure custody of the item for use in other games or mobile apps.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Web3 engineers should have experience in blockchain development and be familiar with the Solidity programming language, which is used to write smart contracts. Because of blockchain’s immutability, projects in web3 will grow by adding layers to the tech it already sits on.

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Toptal

MAY 6, 2019

Experts say gaming will be the first real use case for blockchain, revamping the industry and making games more immersive than ever. How gaming navigates the remaining hurdles will become a case study for other industries considering mass blockchain adoption.

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Openxcell

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Technology trends in the gaming industry are growing rapidly due to robust digital transformations. According to Grand View Research, the video game market is expected to reach USD 583.69 It’s all thanks to the newest gaming technologies shaping the future of gaming. billion by 2030. Another example is Twelfth Man.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Suma Wealth is at the intersection of edtech and fintech and is innovating on the blockchain. It is using the blockchain to certify everyone via proof of learning and attendance. Suma Wealth helps Latinos build credit through gaming, in-culture content by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Web3 gaming company Unagi today announced a €4.7 Unagi, which doesn’t yet have its own website, was founded out of Paris by Charlie Guillemot , son of Ubisoft co-founder Yves Guillemot and formerly studio manager at Owlient, a free-to-play game studio acquired by Ubisoft back in 2011; and Remi Pellerin , also formerly of Owlient.

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2022

A number of crypto gaming firms have ramped up production in the past year with hopes of revolutionizing the growing industry. Adding to the list is London-based gaming firm Cauldron, which plans on becoming the “Pixar of web3” through a key element: storytelling. The company just closed a $6.6 The company just closed a $6.6

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2022

Few areas in tech today are as polarized as the blockchain gaming space. Legacy developers and gamers are calling play-to-earn games Ponzi schemes, while crypto-believers say games that incorporate “tokenomics” are the future for empowering players and creators. “But prices are being normalized.”

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

2001, a Starbucks Odyssey : In August, Starbucks got things percolating with plans for a blockchain-based loyalty program and NFT community. What not to leave in your hotel room : Not sure how you can just “find” a Meta Quest Pro prototype , but that’s what a video game streamer in Mexico says happened. The TechCrunch Top 3.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2022

Solana Ventures and Solana Foundation have set up a $100 million investment and grant fund to deploy capital into South Korean web3 startups, Johnny Lee, general manager of games at Solana Labs, told TechCrunch. The fund will focus on gaming studios, GameFi, NFTs and DeFi in South Korea. We’re confident that is about to change.”.

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Perficient

MARCH 17, 2023

The Yankees had won a World Series two seasons prior and had started their 1998 season with their young shortstop, Derek Jeter, on his way to his first All-Star game. The Yankees would win a then-record 114 regular season games and added 11 more in the postseason, sweeping the World Series over the Padres led by Tony Gwynn.

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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. It plans to improve the gaming community through training gamers to become coaches and standardizing employment contracts. Stage: Seed.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Tatsumeeko , a role-playing game on Ethereum and Solana created by the team behind Discord chatbot Tatsu.GG, announced today it has struck a partnership with Immutable X (IMX). The partnership’s goal is to enhance Tatsumeeko’s gameplay experience by focusing on trackable ownership and transfer of in-game assets.

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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

AUGUST 4, 2022

Blockchain-based games have seen a surge in popularity, but playing them is getting expensive. Play-to-earn games like StepN require players to purchase an NFT before they can participate, while other crypto video games offer users pricey upgrades such as virtual avatars and distinctive skins or costumes.

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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. Like Solana and other newer blockchains, Avalanche wants to solve the scalability issues that older blockchains face. The equivalent of $1.3

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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. Read it every morning on TechCrunch+ or get The Exchange newsletter every Saturday.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2022

And yet, NFT startup Cryptoys is raising tens of millions of dollars with the goal of building a blockchain-based toy company that can expose younger users to the ideas of digital ownership and NFT mechanics. With that as background, it might not seem like the best time to launch an NFT platform, let alone one geared toward children.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2021

Within months, Gharegozlou’s company went from a niche crypto gaming startup largely known to industry insiders to locking in a hulking reported $7.5 We’re thrilled to have Gharegozlou joining us at Disrupt this September 21-23 , to discuss the future of NFTs, crypto gaming and the decentralized internet.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2023

A lot of giant funds are getting raises, but the VCs themselves don’t have a lot of skin in the game when it comes to using their own capital.” Chen also serves as the CEO of Injective Labs , a blockchain for web3-focused financial apps, and Uddin is the head of business development for that company.

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CIO

JULY 20, 2023

Regulatory requirements will temper developments in these two areas: Technology, banking, and innovation To accelerate innovation and improvements in customer experience, security, and privacy, banks are turning to three technology-based capabilities: blockchain, artificial intelligence (AI), and metaverse.

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TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2022

Even though there might be a waiting game happening right now, the total amount of capital going into crypto is still up from the year-ago period. “There’s been this kind of viral dialogue that sometime around September, valuations are gonna come down even more significantly and it’s just gonna be a frenzy,” Nage said.

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TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2022

It’s been on the lips of a growing number of investors on the hunt for disruptive opportunities blockchain-based technologies can offer. Blockchain is at its most powerfully disruptive when it supplies the missing link. For instance: Does a global, permissionless, digital money layer change the game? What’s your web3 strategy?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

Consider that late last summer, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) invested in an outfit, Yield Guild Games (YGG), that invests in NFTs from blockchain-based games, then loans them out to people who use them and generate revenue as they play. Now, another building block is apparently needed.

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