Web 3.0


Opinion

Play-to-Earn Games Are Missing the Point. Here’s How to Fix Them

A more sustainable, impactful P2E ecosystem must be free, fair, transparent and purposefully decentralized.

Gaming (Leon Neal/Getty Images)

Finance

African Web 3 Super App Jambo Raises $7.5M in Seed Round

The all-in-one education, play-to-earn and personal finance app is backed by Coinbase, 3AC, Alameda Research and Polygon Studios, among others.

Africa holds great potential in the ongoing evolution of cryptocurrency technology. (Moussa Kalapo/Getty Images)

Markets

Helium Network Passing Half-Million Hotspots Could Fire Up HNT Price

The crypto-powered distributed network of long-range wireless hotspots has amassed over half a million miners across the world in just two years. But what's next for the HNT token?

(Sagar Patil/Unsplash)

Layer 2

How Brands Can Co-Create in a Metaverse

An interview with Singapore's Multiverse Labs ahead of CoinDesk's "Metaverse: Gimmick or Distributed Innovation?" event.

(Wan Wei)

Opinion

What Web 3 Can Learn From 3D TV

Critics said crypto is something consumers can resist.

(Bruna Araujo/Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

USV, Multicoin Lead $30M Raise for 3Box’s Ceramic Data Network

“Web 3 social” has been an early focus of the data composability project.

(Jessica Ruscello/Unsplash)

Markets

Coinbase Plans 2K-Employee Hiring Spree This Year

The cryptocurrency exchange sees "enormous product opportunities ahead for the future of Web 3."

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong speaks at CoinDesk's Consensus 2019.

Opinion

Which Web 3 Protocols Are Most Likely to Succeed? A VC Suggests a Common Thread

The protocols most likely to become valuable are popular but also have features that cannot be replicated.

A venture capitalist pinpoints common characteristics of successful Web 3 protocols. (David Bruyndonck/Unsplash)

Finance

Web 3 Infrastructure Giant Alchemy Tops $10B Valuation in $200M Funding Round

A key player behind decentralized applications on Ethereum and other chains continues to swell.

Alchemy co-founder and CEO Nikil Viswanathan (Pantera/CoinDesk archives)