Статьи по тегу «Blockchain»

Ever since Hong Kong legalized cryptocurrency trading last June, blockchain projects from the West have been paying more attention to the Asian financial hub. Aptos, the a16z-backed blockchain network developed by a group of former Meta employees, is one of them. Started by some of the original creators of Meta’s abandoned crypto payment project Diem, […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Telegram CEO and founder Pavel Durov announced today that the company is launching its ad platform next month, allowing channel owners to receive financial rewards. The company will pay out rewards using toncoin on the TON blockchain. Channel owners will start receiving 50% of all revenue that the company makes from displaying ads in their […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

It’s hard to keep track of crypto’s technical development, but one thing hasn’t changed much: blockchain applications are notoriously hard to build. This stems in part from their decentralized nature, resulting in a lack of uniform standards across different infrastructure pieces. Initia, founded by a group of developers in their late 20s, is trying to […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

As the digital asset industry picks up steam again, some crypto funds are looking to hone in on specific sectors. Crypto fund Asymmetric Financial is creating its Bitcoin DeFi Venture Fund I to focus on investing in the blockchain’s nascent space with a target raise of $21 million. The fund will be spearheaded by general […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Golden Ventures' fifth fund targets seed-stage founders working across technologies, including AI, climate, blockchain and quantum. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

After disclosing better-than-expected financial results in its fourth quarter earnings report, U.S.-based Coinbase has big plans. The second largest crypto exchange told its investors that intends to lean heavily on its work with the popular USDC stablecoin this year, lever its recently launched layer-2 blockchain Base as a way to experiment with and improve blockchain […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Polygon Labs, the team focused on building the layer-2 blockchain Polygon, has laid off 60 employees, about 19%, of its staff, its CEO Marc Boiron said in a post on Thursday. The Polygon blockchain is one of the biggest layer-2 blockchains focused on scaling the Ethereum chain. It has assisted over 2.44 billion transactions, deployed […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Taproot Wizards, a Bitcoin-focused Ordinals project, is trying to change the way the blockchain is perceived. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Investors are getting back in the groove of investing in web3, crypto and blockchain technology. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

As the crypto market continues to slog through a fundraising winter, Lightspeed Faction, a blockchain-focused venture capital firm, is betting big on the space. The firm has launched its inaugural $285 million fund, its co-founders exclusively told TechCrunch. Faction will focus mainly on early-stage blockchain projects raising seed or Series A rounds. Before launching publicly, […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Despite crypto’s badly tarnished reputation following FTX’s collapse, some large corporations are warmly embracing its underlying distributed ledger technology. LG CNS, the IT solutions subsidiary of the South Korean conglomerate, has formed a strategic partnership with QuickNode, a blockchain deployment platform aiming to bring web2 services into web3. Besides announcing the partnership, LG also revealed […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

It’s strange times we’re living in when a blockchain billionaire, not the usual Big Tech suspects, is the one supplying the compute capacity needed to develop generative AI. It was revealed yesterday that Jed McCaleb, the co-founder of blockchain startups Stellar, Ripple and Mt Gox and aerospace company Vast, launched a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that purchased 24,000 […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Hexa, the Paris-based startup studio that started its life as eFounders, just shared a list of the six next companies that will emerge from the studio. It’s an interesting mix of enterprise SaaS startups with a blockchain data startup thrown into the mix. And given eFounders’ track record, it’s always interesting to see the ideas […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Created by the founder of Thunes, global digital currency payments institution Triple-A wants to close the gap between traditional finance and blockchain-based payments with its white-label solutions for businesses. It enables clients to pay in or accept crypto and get fiat money in their bank accounts the next day. Triple-A announced today it has raised […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Welcome back to Chain Reaction. It’s week three of the Sam Bankman-Fried trial…how are you holding up? © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Reddit is winding down Community Points — the blockchain-based “internet points” program designed to reward creators and developers — in favor of prioritizing rewards programs that are less difficult to scale. “Though we saw some future opportunities for Community Points, the resourcing needed was unfortunately too high to justify,” Reddit’s director of consumer and product […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Walking through Token2049, it was hard to tell that the crypto industry was going through a “winter” phase. The crypto conference held in Singapore in September attracted an unprecedented crowd of 20,000 attendees, filling the island state with an even greater number of blockchain enthusiasts who hopped in and out of the hundreds of side […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

A U.S. security researcher is warning of a chilling effect after he was detained on arrival at a U.S. airport, his phone was searched, and was ordered to testify to a grand jury, only to have prosecutors reverse course and drop the investigation later. On Wednesday, Sam Curry, a security engineer at blockchain technology company […]... →

The crypto industry has long been criticized for its disconnection with the real world, but there are players who try to show that the underlying blockchain technology can solve some of our most pressing challenges in today’s society — especially in regions where basic infrastructure is lacking. Akowe, a Nairobi-based startup that is part of […]... →

The crypto bear market may be ongoing, but Blockchain Capital is still going big. It closed two new funds for a total of $580 million, the firm’s general partner Spencer Bogart told TechCrunch. The two venture funds, its sixth early-stage fund and its first “opportunity fund,” are allocated roughly two-thirds and one-third of the $580 […]... →