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

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Autograph has a handful of early partners largely in the sports world, but the names represent some of the most famous athletes in their respective sports, including Brady, Tiger Woods, Simone Biles, Derek Jeter, Naomi Osaka, Usain Bolt, Wayne Gretzky and Tony Hawk.

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How to incorporate web3 gaming into your Web 2.0 strategy

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Tom Fleetham is the head of sports and gaming at Zilliqa, where he is helping scale up partnerships in the next phase of its growth. There is, however, clearly inherent value in blockchain technology, and the gaming industry is poised to become the focal point for mainstream adoption. Tom Fleetham. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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

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Founded in 2017 by Szymon Sypniewicz (CEO) and Przemek Kowalczyk (CTO, CPO), Ramp has a non-custodial, full-stack payment infrastructure. 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.

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Daily Crunch: Hackers pinched LastPass customers’ encrypted password vaults, parent company admits

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Blockchain infrastructure galore : Jacquelyn writes that QuickNode raises $60 million at a $800 million valuation to become the “AWS of blockchain.” ” It’s electrifying : Haje wrote about Orange and its fundraise targeted at making it easier to get EV charging in your building.

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Metaverse: The time for CIOs to experiment is now

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For the past forty years CIOs have labored to retrofit, rearchitect, and ultimately replace underfunded and underappreciated legacy infrastructures in hopes of delivering the full benefits associated with periodically occurring waves of transformative emerging technologies. The metaverse has the potential to change that. Emerging Technology

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Daily Crunch: YouTube rolls out support for dubbing videos in more than 40 languages

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More than half of companies say that their spending on public cloud apps will increase in 2023 while 56% expect their public cloud infrastructure services spending will go up this year. Walmart sold Moosejaw to Dick’s Sporting Goods after acquiring the e-commerce outdoor retailer in 2017, Aisha reports. The cloud is growing expensive.

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Daily Crunch: Former employee says Patreon has laid off its entire security team

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We like a startup with a fun name : Cryptocurrency is a hot market in Africa, and Tage writes about one blockchain payments startup, called Bitmama, that raised $2 million in pre-seed funding to show what it can do in new markets. Startups and VC.

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