Web 3.0

Kavita Gupta, Ex-ConsenSys Ventures head and Delta Blockchain Fund founder, explains why her fund believes in the importance of a multi-chain ecosystem and the growing applications of blockchain technology.

Jan 4, 2022

The newly appointed CEO of Near Foundation, Marieke Flament, discusses what lies ahead for the Near ecosystem after a momentous year for the protocol. Flament touches on why a decentralized Web 3.0 is beneficial to content creators, Near Foundation’s developer grant program that supports promising projects using the Near protocol, and how the organization plans to co-exist with other chains in the ecosystem like Ethereum.

Jan 4, 2022

Payments company Stripe, whose API supports millions of digital storefronts, has begun assembling a crypto engineering team to chart its future in digital assets. In an industry first, Stripe supported bitcoin in 2014 but abandoned the service four years later.

Oct 13, 2021

By Adrian Blust, Adam B. LevineOct 13, 2021

Nick Mancini, senior research analyst at Trade the Chain, discusses what he thinks are the catalysts behind bitcoin’s price rally, which has pushed its market capitalization back above $1 trillion, a level not seen since May.

Oct 6, 2021

Matthew Gould, CEO of blockchain domain name provider Unstoppable Domains, discusses his reading of the trend of September doldrums in the crypto markets and his “still very bullish” outlook for bitcoin. Plus, his reactions to Facebook’s major outage and the case for Web 3.0.

Oct 5, 2021

Facebook went down Monday for a little over five hours due to configuration errors, with the damage reportedly costing an estimated $65 million. This comes as the social media giant faces allegations its platforms promote toxic content and harm users. Could the same error make crypto networks go offline? "The Hash" panel discusses the implications for the fragility of the internet at large, highlighting the importance of Web 3.0 and decentralization.

Oct 5, 2021

Gavin Wood, CEO of smart contract blockchain Polkadot, which issues its native token DOT, discusses why regulation is good for DeFi, adding it would force projects and platforms to be truly decentralized, and it would weed out projects with more centralized elements.

Sep 21, 2021

Jalak Jobanputra, a founder and managing partner at Future Perfect Ventures, discusses her take on where we are in the development cycle of Web 3.0 and her advice on where to invest. “We’ve really hit an inflection point of more institutional adoption [and] more retail adoption,” she said.

Sep 16, 2021

T-Mobile CEO Mike Sievert apologized for a cyberattack that exposed more than 54 million people to greater risk of fraud and identity theft, saying the firm has hired security experts to strengthen its defenses. This marks the carrier’s third major security leak in two years.

Aug 27, 2021