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. It doubled in size in 2021 with over $52.7 The sports betting market in the US has grown rapidly as states begin loosening regulations around the industry.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

Much of the world’s attention around blockchain is on the highs and lows of cryptocurrency values. One of the startups working toward this vision is Zimbabwe’s FlexID, which is building a blockchain-based identity system for those excluded from the banking system due to their lack of identity documents. million in 2016.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

billion fund the other day is a reminder of the scale of funds now available to startups looking to build on the blockchain. And, per The Block Research, that figure has grown by 39 so far in 2021. The market for crypto-focused investing is growing rapidly. News that Paradigm put together a $2.5 The result? There are a few reasons why.

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Openxcell

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

When Blockchain first emerged as the technology that backed cryptocurrencies, it was met with cynicism and skepticism. A decade and more later, the hype hasn’t died down and blockchain is all the rage. Blockchain market was worth $5.85 billion in 2021 and a whopping $1235 billion by 2030. Billion by 2032.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2022

Cryptocurrency and blockchain had a breakout year in 2021. Have we reached a point where crypto and blockchain reach mass adoption? Even though DeFi, cryptocurrencies, blockchains, NFTs and a slew of other products came online in 2021, only about 1% of the world’s population has a unique crypto wallet. Contributor.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 11, 2021

With the year winding to a close, analysts are dusting off their crystal balls – in an attempt to peek into the future and discover what 2021 has in store […].

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Perficient

MARCH 17, 2023

Blockchain Is A Permanent Record In the last series of articles published by members of Perficient’s Digital Assets Team, we wrote about the improved visibility of blockchain-based supply chains assisting all supply chain transaction partners to share data through permission-based Blockchain solutions.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Gharegozlou and the team at his startup, Dapper Labs , shipped the blockchain world’s first popular game, CryptoKitties, back in 2017. We caught up with the Dapper Labs CEO at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 last week to discuss the challenges facing the crypto space, the future of Ethereum and how quickly NFTs blew up this year.

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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. 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. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

Last year we covered how early blockchain startup Propy planned to use the technology to smooth real-world real estate sales by introducing the concept of smart contracts. Here’s how it works: Propy says the record of the purchase is placed on the immutable blockchain and provides access to the legal documents signifying ownership.

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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

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. channels like Twitter or Discord onto blockchains. It won the Fall 2021 Chainlink DeFi Hackathon competition. Stage: Seed round.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

It’s been a wild 2021 for NFT auction marketplace OpenSea. One of the company’s clearer growth roadblocks has been infrastructure issues native to the Ethereum blockchain that its marketplace has been built around. billion valuation. NFT marketplace OpenSea raises $23 million from a16z.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2022

European and North American edtech startups see funding triple in 2021. European, North American edtech startups see funding triple in 2021. In 1982, computer scientist David Chaum wrote a dissertation that described a blockchain protocol, along with the code for implementing it. Walter Thompson. Senior Editor, TechCrunch+.

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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. Digital Transformation

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

French startup Voodoo has announced that it plans to make a significant investment in blockchain-powered mobile games. 2021 has been an important year for crypto gaming, with Axie Infinity popularizing the play-to-earn model. Voodoo already has 10 internal studios working on blockchain-powered games.

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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

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

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. While indie studios are typically a risky bet for investments, parts of the cohort have attracted interest, especially NFT games in 2021.

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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. billion in total investment during Q1 2022, an all-time high that bested the prior record (Q4 2021) by around $400 million. Recall that in its Q4 2021 earnings , Coinbase said the following:

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

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. That there are believers in crypto in the market is not a surprise.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Maybe FTX was the real poster child for 2021’s startup excess by Alex Wilhelm originally published on TechCrunch. Instead of being reasonable advice to be bold in the face of uncertainty, it can also be used to make witless choices appear reasonable.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 21, 2023

The app, built on Coinbase’s layer-2 blockchain Base , allows users to tokenize their likeness by selling “shares” of themselves to their followers, who then become shareholders and can message the users directly. A crypto social network that let people buy and sell tokens based on people’s reputations, DeSo launched in 2021 to much hype.

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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 billion Crypto Fund III. .

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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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David Walsh

DECEMBER 29, 2020

I mean how the hell do I create realistic goals knowing what 2020 was and what 2021 inherits?! The following are my goals for 2021! Attain an Expansive Knowledge of the Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Industry. Attain an Expansive Knowledge of the Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Industry. What are your goals for 2020?

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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

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Originally announced in July 2021, the merger was supposed to close in Q4 2021. Behind the scenes, USDC is available on several different blockchains. Each blockchain provides different advantages and drawbacks depending on what you’re looking for when it comes to fees, speed and convenience.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2021

another cryptocurrency company is having a blockbuster first quarter of 2021. Originally named Blockchain.info, the company first launched a blockchain explorer. As Coinbase is about to go public in the U.S., If you’ve been paying attention, you may remember that I wrote about Blockchain.com last month.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2022

The company first filed for regulatory approval in December of 2021. TechCrunch reported on the New York-based startup’s $10 million Series A raise in mid-March 2021. million at the end of 2021. billion in 2021, growth of over 400% compared to 2019, according to Assia. That’s up from 10 million at the end of 2018, 12.3

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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 ”

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Crunchbase News

AUGUST 15, 2024

That is only one shy of the 29 young unicorns created through all of last year — although still significantly off the pace in 2021 and 2022 when 107 and 77 early-stage unicorns were minted, respectively. Back to old ways?

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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

APRIL 19, 2022

Alex looks at Databricks, a company perhaps on the cusp of going public, and opines about what it might mean if it’s worth less today than it was in 2021, and comes to the conclusion that an IPO can wait. government warned that a North Korean state-backed hacker group is targeting blockchain organizations with trojanized cryptocurrency.

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Perficient

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

While distributed ledger technology including blockchains did not exist when Ray Kroc was meeting with his farmers/suppliers, they do exist now and allow all members of a supply chain to see current inventory and materials in transit. About the Authors: Carl Aridas has been a member of Perficient’s Digital Assets Team since 2021.

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DevOps.com

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

11, 2021—The American Council on Education (ACE) today announced four winners for the first phase of the Blockchain Innovation Challenge, a $900,000 competition funded by the U.S. The post ACE Selects Four Blockchain Innovation Challenge Winners to Expand Economic Opportunity to Underserved Learners appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Openxcell

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

In today’s digitalized world, we are aware that blockchain has attracted many sectors, but finance is arguably the most prominent one. Blockchain focused on addressing the blackouts that occurred during the global financial crisis. In this blog, we’ll discuss the front face of blockchain in the banking sector.

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