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Capsule gets $1.5M to build ‘super simple’ decentralized social media

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” Cryptocat author gets insanely fast backing to build P2P tech for social media. Given the intent with TIC is to hosts all sorts of decentralized apps it’s possible — indeed, likely — that a bunch of decentralized social media plays will emerge. Polychain Capital outted its Beacon Fund last September.

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Luxury fashion meets blockchain on Syky, the Seven Seven Six-backed web3 platform

TechCrunch

She launched the company in November after a career in marketing at luxury fashion houses, serving in roles including chief digital and content officer at Ralph Lauren and digital and social marketing director at Burberry. I believe that the luxury fashion houses of tomorrow are being built today.”.

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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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Web 3.0 and Blockchain Integration: Implications for Businesses and Future it holds

Openxcell

Bitcoin was one of the very first blockchain networks to be introduced and is often set to be the starting point of Web 3.0 and the newest introduction to the evolution of the internet. or the Ready-Only Web The Internet in its earliest days was called Web 1.0 OpenSource blockchain and Web 3.0 Difference between Web 1.0,

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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. Projects are collectively generating $1.5

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Tencent veterans secure $13M to build cross-chain decentralized identities

TechCrunch

There are many startups working on decentralized identities for the next generation of the internet. Four Tencent veterans want their offering.bit , an identity protocol built on the blockchain, to become the universal identification system in web3, like how emails and phone numbers became ubiquitous in Web 2.0,

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Web3 Venture Funding Bounces Back Slightly From Last Year’s Lows

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Editor’s note: For more Web3 coverage, visit Crunchbase’s Web3 Tracker , where we track startups, investors and funding news in the Web3, cryptocurrency and blockchain space, powered by Crunchbase ’s live, comprehensive data. Startups related to Web3 — defined as those in the crypto and blockchain sectors — raised just less than $1.9