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Foursquare founder banks funding for mystery 3D social network startup

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The trio say they have banked $4 million in early funding led by DCVC for their project. Foursquare founder Dennis Crowley is on the co-founding team of a new startup called LivingCities , alongside Matt Miesnieks, who sold his most recent startup 6D.ai Other backers include Eniac Ventures, Anorak and Matthew Ball.

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Singapore-based fintech STACS raises $3.6M to develop blockchain platforms for financial institutions

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The company develops blockchain platforms that can work with financial institutions’ existing infrastructure, and its core technology is also used in GreenSTACS for environmental, social and governance (ESG) investments. Project Ubin, the Singaporean money authority’s blockchain initiative, moves closer to commercialization.

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New bank, who dis? Lifestyle-focused neobank Cogni pivots to web3

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Digital banking startup Cogni is joining the ranks of companies hopping on the crypto bandwagon. When crypto and blockchain became people’s lifestyle in 2021, that’s when we decided that it’s a lot more attractive to build on web3 than web2,” Ravishankar said. Cogni founder and CEO Archie Ravishankar.

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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. Daily Crunch: New Starbucks Odyssey loyalty program ‘happens to be built on blockchain and web3’ by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch. The TechCrunch Top 3.

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Meet the newest crypto builders from web3 accelerator Alliance DAO’s demo day

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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. What it does: Exclusive social clubs on top of NFTs. channels like Twitter or Discord onto blockchains. Stage: Seed round.

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Digital listening reveals 3 leading innovation drivers

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The industries these decision-makers represented include insurance, banking, healthcare and life sciences, government, entertainment, and energy in the U.S. The listening centered on conversations about emerging technologies and use cases associated with innovation, such as artificial intelligence, metaverse, blockchain, robotics, Web 3.0,

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Daily Crunch: India’s Central Bank says cryptocurrency ‘may even be worse’ than Ponzi schemes

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We have a busy slate for you today, including news sure to annoy the blockchain faithful, new funds, Facebook’s latest rebrand and more. India continues to debate the fate of cryptocurrencies : A nation’s regulatory and banking bodies debating blockchain technology and its related tokens is a daily occurrence.

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