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Decentralized Komorebi Collective launches to back female and nonbinary crypto founders

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As decentralized currencies have taken off in recent months, there’s been renewed attention around DAOs, or Decentralized Autonomous Organizations, as a means of bringing together groups of investors who can deploy capital as a unit while voting collectively on those investments.

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9 ways IT leaders can impact sustainability initiatives

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Many CIOs don’t know where to start,” says Brian Kirkland, CIO at Choice Hotels and founding board member for SustainableIT.org, a nonprofit launched to help create frameworks and standards around sustainability. How IT organizations build applications impacts their usage, power consumption, and overall impact on sustainability.

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15 worthwhile conferences for women in tech

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Date : October 8-11, 2024 Location : Philadelphia and virtual Ticket price : TBD Pride Summit The Pride Summit is held by Lesbians Who Tech, an organization that cites itself as the “largest LGBTQ professional event in the world,” according to the website — and allies are welcome. Date : April 11-13, 2024 Location : Nashville, Tenn.

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CEO Tech Tips – How blockchain technology can add innovative value-driven benefits to the business.

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When people hear about Blockchain technology they associate it with Cryptocurrency. The key thing to understand here is that Cryptocurrency merely uses blockchain to transparently record a ledger of payments, but blockchain can be used to immutably record any number of data points. We will be happy to assist.

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Radical Ethereum entrepreneurs are redefining what ‘rape kit’ means

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Vaidya said Leda Health’s Ethereum-powered mobile app gives survivors the choice to document their own accounts, using blockchain technology for time-stamping evidence collected in the kit, which puts power back in survivors’ hands. . The blockchain creates a sense of accountability, because these records can’t be changed,” Vaidya said.

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Syndicate raises ‘informal’ round from over 50 partners to bring DAOs to the masses

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Web3 startup Syndicate ‘s goal is to demystify the DAO (decentralized autonomous organization). The raise includes strategic investors such as Carta, Circle Ventures, OpenSea and Uniswap Labs’ new venture arm , as well as institutional funds-of-funds, nonprofits and web3 talent networks.

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Tribal Credit, which provides credit cards to startups in emerging markets, raises $34.3M

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As part of the investment, Tribal received $3 million from the Stellar Development Foundation , a nonprofit organization that supports the development and growth of the open-source Stellar blockchain network. . The raise follows “ 10x” year-over-year growth, according to CEO and co-founder Amr Shady.

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