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Daily Crunch: New Starbucks Odyssey loyalty program ‘happens to be built on blockchain and web3’

TechCrunch

2001, a Starbucks Odyssey : In August, Starbucks got things percolating with plans for a blockchain-based loyalty program and NFT community. What not to leave in your hotel room : Not sure how you can just “find” a Meta Quest Pro prototype , but that’s what a video game streamer in Mexico says happened. The TechCrunch Top 3.

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Stacked gets $13M to be the Twitch for web3 gamers

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Few areas in tech today are as polarized as the blockchain gaming space. Before the debate is settled, the ecosystem around blockchain games is already getting built and funded. Before the debate is settled, the ecosystem around blockchain games is already getting built and funded. “But prices are being normalized.”

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Digital listening reveals 3 leading innovation drivers

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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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Revel raises $7.8M to become the Instagram and Robinhood of NFT platforms

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Revel , an NFT or “social collectibles” platform, raised $7.8 One way to describe Revel is a cross between Instagram and Robinhood, wrapped in social game economics,” Sideman said. Instagram is known as a social media platform while Robinhood is known as an investing and trading platform. (As

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Ayoken raises $1.4M to grow its NFT marketplace for creatives

TechCrunch

Through the NFT marketplace, he said, fans will have access to tokens such as behind-the-scenes videos and album art. His career includes helping scale AZA (Bitpesa), a Nairobi-based platform that leverages bitcoin to facilitate cross-border remittances and where he first got introduced to crypto and blockchain technology.

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Metaverse Magna raises $3.2M at a $30M valuation to build Africa’s largest gaming DAO

TechCrunch

Meanwhile, MVM said it is building a soon-to-launch social gaming app, Hyper. Partnership with MVM is an opportunity to expand the ecosystem of WEMIX [a global blockchain gaming platform developed by Wemade] in Africa, the continent with a rapidly growing market and a young population,” said Henry Chang, CEO of Wemade, in a statement.

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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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