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When 20-year-old streetwear brand The Hundreds jumped into Web3 last year, its loyal fans spent upwards of $100 million on its NFTs. This year it canceled its OpenSea drop in a principled stand for creators’ financial interests. That’s why Bobby “The Hundreds” Kim is one of CoinDesk’s Most Influential 2022.
Nearly 200,000 costumed fans crowded into New York’s Javits Center from Oct. 6-9 for the ultimate pop culture pilgrimage – NYC Comic Con 2022.
Three women share how greed, gluttony and pride have turned them off from dating crypto bros.
Kevin McCoy, the digital artist who minted the first NFT ever, compares the metaverse of today to the watershed moment when Nintendo launched Mario Bros in 1985.
Vauld, formerly called Bank of Hodlers, raised $2 million in a round led by Pantera Capital to expand its crypto banking platform.
Axie Infinity has launched the public testnet of its Ronin sidechain with video game giant Ubisoft as an initial validator.
The Miami Heat’s Tyler Herro is the first NBA player to provide a voiceover for a crypto game.
The Seattle-based firm plans to invest in 10–15 ventures in the blockchain space over the next 2–3 years.
Aavegotchi – a retro, Tamagotchi-inspired game that came to life at the end of DeFi Summer – is launching in full on Jan. 4.
The token was listed on social money platform Fyooz, where buyers, most likely fans of the rapper, bought $YACHTY for $15 each.
Human Protocol, home of the anti-bot hCaptcha system, announced it is expanding beyond Ethereum to a future Polkadot parachain, Moonbeam.
Globe goes live Friday with the announcement of $3 million in funding from the likes of Pantera Capital, Y Combinator, Tim Draper and others.
A new game mode will also be launching on the platform in early 2021, where players can own pieces of land and farm governance tokens.
The new funding allows Mintbase to hire developers and designers to prepare for a testnet launch on NEAR before year’s end.
“Dapper Labs was a braindead fit for us to be able to further educate our young users,” Genies founder Akash Nigam said.
Fireblocks plans to maintain its standing as “the biggest player in crypto-native markets” but also wants to go after institutional players.
Mask Network, the protocol that allows users to send encrypted messages and even cryptocurrencies over Twitter, announced a funding round Tuesday.
Mask Network, the protocol that allows users to send encrypted messages and even cryptocurrencies over Twitter, announced a funding round Tuesday.
ArDrive lets users pay a fee once, depending on the price of Arweave tokens, and have their files live forever on the web.
Razor Network raised $3.7 million in seed funding from NGC Ventures, Alameda Research and Mariano Conti, the former oracles chief at MakerDAO.
