Web3 news, June 9: NFT tracking platform from former Robinhood COO, Anthony Hopkins’s interest in digital art, ‘Cryptoys’ from Mattel
NFT tracking platform led by former Robinhood Crypto COO raises $8 million Christine Brown, the first COO of Robinhood Crypto, along with the former head of mobile at Venmo, Chris Maddern, has announced an $8 million seed round led by Crypto.com, B Capital, 6th Man Ventures and others for their new NFT venture, Floor. Floor […]
Web3, June 8: Solana’s $100M fund, Salesforce NFT platform, Alibaba Cloud NFT services
Solana launches $100 million fund to support Web3 startups in South Korea Solana Ventures and Solana Foundation have announced they’re launching a $100 million investment fund to finance DeFi, NFT and Web3 projects in South Korea. Why South Korea? The teams believe that “Korea is at the forefront of web3 game design and development” after […]
Web3 news, June 7: Samsung’s Web3 Discord, Metaverse crypto index, English Premier League NFT move
Bitwise, Multicoin, Matthew Ball set up Metaverse Crypto Index Fund Bitwise Asset Management, Multicoin Capital and Matthew Ball have launched the Ball Multicoin Bitwise Metaverse Index Fund, a metaverse crypto asset index and fund with 40 crypto assets. Matthew Ball describes it as a “rules-driven index that combines the best of institutional indexing approaches with […]
Web3 news, May 31: Sci-fi project from Hunger Games execs, Gary Vee’s NFT venture, market outlook
‘Hunger Games’ creative execs turning new project into Web3 world In an interview with Decrypt, Cedric Nicolas-Troyan, Bryan Unkeless, Blaise Hemingway and Bryce Anderson shared their vision and plans for the upcoming sci-fi project called Runner. Runner is built to become a video game, NFT profile picture project, comic book and TV show. “While our […]
Web3 news, May 30: Prada, Balmain, Nike, market growth
This week kicks off in fashion! Major luxury brands are turning to the digital assets space in an attempt to capture potential buyers’ attention. Prada has become the latest luxury brand to launch NFTs Prada is launching its newest Timecapsule collection with a tech twist on Thursday. The Italian luxury fashion house is releasing 100 […]
Web3 news, May 18: Twitter decentralized rival, a16z $600 million gaming fund, Twitch exec’s Web3 platform
Aave launches a decentralized Twitter ‘killer’ protocol Aave, a DeFi protocol, has released a decentralized social graph called Lens Protocol to provide users with a new version of social media. The protocol describes itself as “Web3 native <…> with features to serve the Web3 community.” Built on Polygon, Lens Protocol allows users to own their […]
Web3 news, May 16: Spotify, Danny Trejo, Twitch’s co-founder new company
After the week the crypto industry had, many are coming to the new week with hopes for better news and numbers. Spotify is testing new NFT feature Spotify will let its users promote their NFTs in an upcoming trial run. The platform’s artists will be able to showcase their NFTs, while only some US-based users […]
Web3 news, May 10: Madonna releases NFTs, Andreessen Horowitz invests more in the space
It’s all about the money today: so much news of funding definitely indicates investors’ trust in the Web3 industry, especially if it involves whales like Andreessen Horowitz. Now, let’s see who raised how much and what for. NFT protocol raised $25 million in a seed round led by A16z An NFT infrastructure protocol Co:create has […]
Web3 news of the day: May 6, 2022
Here is the news the Web3 world has brought us this Friday. Google Cloud joins the Web3 world Google Cloud vice president Amit Zavery announced to employees in an email on Friday that the cloud computing division has formed a Web3 team. Their main focus will be on back-end services for developers creating Web3 applications, […]
Amberfi to host special Web3 event for women during Permissionless
Despite the fact the crypto industry is considered to be as inclusive as it gets, women are still underrepresented in the space. In 2019, women made up only 4-6% of the individuals hovering in the crypto world. And even though with the popularity of cryptocurrencies, the number of people involved with the industry is growing, […]