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Hackathons vs Conference: Which One Works The Best for Blockchain Industry?

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

In comparison, Blockchain tech only arrived at the scene sometime in 2008, and is still considered comparatively ‘new’. Developers and companies alike are still learning how to adopt Blockchain. But, is a Blockchain conference enough to fulfill this goal of interaction, adoption, and learning? What are conferences?

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Digital listening reveals 3 leading innovation drivers

CIO

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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ACE Selects Four Blockchain Innovation Challenge Winners to Expand Economic Opportunity to Underserved Learners

DevOps.com

Phase 1 winners in Arizona, Nebraska, Texas, and Utah will each receive $150,000 to apply emerging technology to empower social and economic mobility Washington—Feb. Department of Education to […].

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Blockchain Technology: The future of startups

Openxcell

Blockchain technology market has been predicted to shoot up from 4.9 These numbers are deemed to grow higher as most of the industries will continue adopting blockchain technology in future. Owing to the security and transparency blockchain offers, companies are big time investing in adapting blockchain based operations.

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How African CIOs can serve as agents of adoption for digital currencies

CIO

Despite an evolving internet penetration rate of 47% in 2020, according to Internet World statistics, the social use of ICTs remains the main cause of digital illiteracy in Africa. This educational gap is also driven by some companies exploiting the system, perpetuating a lack of inaccurate information and confidence of populations.

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FabuLingua wins the TechCrunch City Spotlight: Austin pitch-off!

TechCrunch

He likened FabuLingua to Prodigy Education’s ultra-popular education product that teaches math through a similar gamification service. She later earned her masters degree in social anthropology from Cambridge University. Charlie Sarmiento pitched Vertikal X , a marketplace for athletes based in blockchain technology.

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Gary Vaynerchuk, Mark Cuban back web3 project tool Thirdweb

TechCrunch

Thirdweb was created by Social Chain founder Steven Bartlett and Furquan Rydhan, who was founding CTO of Bebo and AppLovin. They also say companies like Nike, Disney, Bumble and Meta are already itching to begin building apps and products, like blockchain games, NFT platforms, DAOs and creator projects, for the metaverse, web3 and NFT spaces.

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