Web 3.0


Markets

Decentraland’s MANA Jumps 80% as Facebook Rebrand Fuels Metaverse Bets

Facebook’s commitment to building out the metaverse is a signal there is value to be unlocked, an analyst says.

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Finance

Blockchain Game Companies Pen Open Letter to Valve: ‘Don’t Ban Web3 Games’

The developer booted the games from its Steam platform last month.

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Finance

Blockchain Development Platform QuickNode Raises $35M

The Series A follows a $5.3 million seed round earlier this year and includes participation from Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian and entrepreneur Anthony Pompliano.

QuickNode co-founders (left to right) Dmitry Shklovsky, Manuel Kreutz, Auston Bunsen and Alex Nabutovsky pose for a photo in Miami. (QuickNode)

Policy

Why US Policymakers Should Embrace Web 3

Three words: progress, opportunity and inclusion.

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Videos

Stripe Is Hiring a Crypto Team 3 Years After Ending Bitcoin Support

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.

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Finance

Dapper Labs Backs $3.5M Raise for Crypto Social Media Startup Yup

Yup, which works a little like Pinterest, is the brainchild of two recent Columbia graduates.

Yup’s founders, Nir Kabessa (left) and Vernon Johnson. (Yup)

Videos

Bitcoin Reclaims $1T Market Valuation

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.

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Videos

Unstoppable Domains CEO on Bitcoin’s Outlook After September Doldrums

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.

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Tech

Web 3 Is Where the Young People Are

The massive Facebook outage caused major disruptions yesterday, but also showed how attention is shifting away from gated, centralized platforms.

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