Web 3.0
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Facebook Outage: Could Crypto Shut Down?
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.
What Happens to a Social Token When Its Creator Dies?
Web 3.0 is enabling new forms of economic relationships between creators and fans. But some things may never change.
Polkadot’s Gavin Wood: DeFi Regulation Is ‘a Good Thing’
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.