Web 3.0


Tech

Who’s Using the Metaverse? Poker Players in Decentraland

Decentral Games’ casino has made $7.5 million in revenue over the past three months with daily user counts topping 5,000.

A scene from inside Decentral Games' metaverse casino. (Eli Tan/CoinDesk)

Finance

Muneeb Ali’s Trust Machines Raises $150M

Participating investors include Breyer Capital, Digital Currency Group, GoldenTree, Hivemind and Union Square Ventures.

Blockstack PBC CEO Muneeb Ali

Finance

Alexis Ohanian’s VC Firm to Focus on Crypto With $500M Capital Raise

The Reddit co-founder's 776 Management has raised two new funds and plans to make the majority of its investments in crypto startups.

Alexis Ohanian, co-founder and executive chairman of Reddit, speaks during the Annual Non-Fungible Token (NFT) Event in New York, U.S., on Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2021. NFT.NYC brings together over 500 speakers from the crypto, blockchain, and NFT communities for a three-day event of discussions and workshops. Photographer: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Opinion

The Financialization of Fandom

Social tokens can give fans some upside in the discovery of new talent.

Lana Del Ray (Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

Tech

RLY Backer SuperLayer to Bring Social Tokens to Solana

The venture studio is bringing the Ethereum platform to Solana with additional plans for play-to-earn games and token liquidity.

A rally track. (Pedro Henrique Santos/Unsplash)

Opinion

Don’t Let Web 3 Repeat Web 2’s Mistakes

Web 3 must be private by default, Tor Bair of the Secret Foundation writes for CoinDesk’s Privacy Week.

(Tushar Mahajan/Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)

Opinion

Internet Privacy Is an Inalienable Right

Digicash inventor David Chaum weighs in on the founding principles Web 3 needs. This post is part of CoinDesk's Privacy Week series.

Cryptographer David Chaum writes about the founding principles of Web 3. (Photo by Horacio Villalobos - Corbis/Getty Images)

Finance

Decentralized Data Sharing Network ‘Project Galaxy’ Raises $10M

Project Galaxy, which is live and in use, manages the largest credential data network in Web 3.

(Lars Kienle/Unsplash)

Finance

Singapore VC Blockchain Founders Raises $75M for New Fund

The company has been an early investor in blockchain, crypto, Web 3 and metaverse startups.

Singapore (Lauryn Ishak/Bloomberg via Getty Images)