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Blockchain: The Secret Sauce to Supply Chain Visibility 

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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. Clearly a win-win – all via data (the location of the driver) transparency.

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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.

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Four-month-old Doppel is helping some of the biggest NFT projects spot scams

TechCrunch

Doppel indexes NFT data across various blockchains, including Ethereum, Solana, Polygon, Flow, and others, and uses models that incorporate keywords and metadata to spot fraud, Tian said. He said Doppel is actively trying to court luxury fashion brands as customers.

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Glow Labs raises seed round to help NFT creators reward their loyal customers

TechCrunch

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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Arkive is building the world’s first decentralized museum

TechCrunch

TechCrunch spoke to the company’s founder, Tom McLeod, to find out why we need a blockchain-powered museum. Let me just start by saying that I’m generally pretty bearish on blockchain tech, and nobody in their right mind would pitch a crypto startup to me. That’s the premise of Arkive , which just raised a $9.6

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The Missing Link: Blockchain for Digital Supply Chains

TIBCO - Connected Intelligence

As our business frameworks and structures have evolved to become predominantly data-driven digital entities, a new electronic backbone of partners, suppliers, and industry associates has crystallized and become the new substrate for all operational functions. The foundational fabric: blockchain. Reading Time: 4 minutes.

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LG announces the first 50 participants in its LG Nova program

TechCrunch

XRHealth Virtual Clinic – Integrates VR/AR, licensed clinicians and real-time data analytics. Bigthinx – AI technology focused on fashion retail, wellness and the metaverse with products for body scanning, digital avatars and virtual fashion. The Metaverse. I-EMS Group, Ltd.

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