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Tom Brady’s buzzy celebrity NFT startup Autograph banks $170M from Silicon Valley’s top crypto investors

TechCrunch

Autograph , an NFT agency co-founded by athlete Tom Brady with a particularly deep bench of star power, has banked new funding from crypto investors who hope the platform can bring a new generation of celebrities and their fans into the fold of crypto collectibles.

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‘PayPal for crypto’ wannabe Ramp raises $52.7M Series A round led by Balderton Capital

TechCrunch

It is also the exclusive on-ramping partner for Sorare, the blockchain-based, global sports video game, and Flow, the blockchain which specializes in NFT marketplaces and digital assets. The ultimate vision is to facilitate crypto transactions for banks’ or other financial institutions’ end-users within their banking apps.

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Metaverse: The time for CIOs to experiment is now

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Right now, the metaverse is essentially an undefined amalgam of technologies and concepts including but not limited to augmented reality (AR), avatars, blockchain, cryptocurrencies, extended reality (ER), mixed reality (MR), NFTs (non-fungible tokens), virtual reality (VR), and Web3. The metaverse has the potential to change that.

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What are NFTs? Top 5 Remarkable NFT business ideas to adopt in 2022

Openxcell

Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are blockchain-based cryptographic assets having unique identifying codes and metadata that differentiate them from others. They are one-of-a-kind works that are recorded on a blockchain and hence cannot be altered or duplicated. Let’s see how do NFTs work – NFTs are reserved on a Blockchain.

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How to create a culture of innovation

CIO

This team has prototyped applications involving multiple components of artificial intelligence, blockchain, low-code/no-code development, and even quantum computing,” the CIO says. Through that, [Olympians] are able to do sports-based activities and compete against other high schools. Arvest Bank.

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TrustLayer raises $6M seed to become the ‘Carta for insurance’

TechCrunch

Recent traction includes companies working in the construction, property management, sports and hospitality industries. Mort acknowledges that much of the innovation in fintech has historically focused on the banking industry while the insurance industry has been slower to innovate.

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Blockchain solutions in enterprise

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

A review of the crucial steps for a successful blockchain-based solution. Blockchain is a solution for business networks. It makes sense to deploy a blockchain-based solution only where there is a network of collaborating participants who are issuing transactions around a set of common assets in the network. Provenance.