Blockchain

Human Protocol has gained unicorn status after it raised $30 million in a fresh funding round led by Kingsway Capital. Other venture capital firms that participated in the seed funding round included Animoca Brands, Blockchain.com, Hashed, and Shima Capital.

Anton and James Peraire-Bueno, aged 24 and 28 respectively, allegedly manipulated the Ethereum blockchain in a mere 12 seconds

Mastercard has onboarded five new startups to be part of its Web3-focussed Smart Path programme. France-based startup Kulipa joined UK-based Parfin and Singapore’s Peaq to be handpicked by Mastercard for the Start Path programme, alongside Belgium-based Venly and US-based Triangle.

Dogeverse, the latest entrant into the memecoin market, has managed to raise $15 million in its Initial Coin Offering (ICO). The $DOGEVERSE token has taken the crypto market by storm and is set to be launched on six different blockchains.

Clinical research centre Mascot Spincontrol and blockchain firm Qila has collaborated to keep the integrity of medical research work intact with secure and tamper-proof data storage. Blockchain technology prevents the concentration of data in one location, making it difficult for hackers or other malicious agents to manipulate the stored informatio...

The concept of SocialFi is to bridge the gap that exists between existing social networking platforms and Web3. It gives users more control over their content, more freedom of speech, and also lets them monetise their content.

The UAE has launched the ‘Dubai Metaverse Strategy’ with the plan to onboard over a thousand Web3 firms onto its industrial ecosystem. This move, the UAE estimates, can see around 40,000 jobs in the next six years.

Germany’s third largest state-owned bank, Kreditanstalt fuer Wiederaufbau (KfW) has decided to join the global list of lenders that are experimenting with blockchain. In the coming days, KfW has planned to launch its first ever blockchain-based digital bond.

The TBTC testnet helps developers figure out the working of potentially usable blockchain solutions. This testnest is used for the testing and development of these solutions.

David Palmer, the lead of Blockchain initiatives at Vodafone has hinted about the company’s Web3 plans during a recent interview. Palmer hinted that blockchain networks, crypto wallets, smartphones, and SIM cards may all come together for a big Web3 twist to Vodafone’s services around the world.

Solana Labs has joined forces with Google Cloud to use the capabilities of Google Cloud to offer its own blockchain-based game development suit to developers. GameShift lets developers integrate non-custodial wallets alongside quick and scalable tools to create and distribute in-game assets. All of these processes are backed on the Solana blockchai...

Casio has launched an NFT series with eight digital art pieces that have been created in partnership with Astar zkEVM. Banking on Japan’s gaming culture, Casio’s NFTs will be made available on Astar’s Yogi Origin game.

The Academy of Blockchain and AI Innovation (ABAII) was recently launched in Vietnam to educate tech students on the potential use cases of blockchain and AI in sectors like banking, data analysis, as well as digital economy and finance. Vietnam is ramping up efforts to join other Asian nations like India, Japan, China, and South Korea in exploring...

Google Cloud has teamed up with a Layer-1 blockchain platform Sui to integrate blockchain solutions with Artificial Intelligence (AI) and other tech initiatives. Both the platforms have planned to work on improving the security and scalability of AI-powered Web3 applications.

The student election voting system in IIT Madras is now working on blockchain networks rather than traditional centralised servers. In conversation with Gadgets 360, the institute said that its experiments with blockchain should not be seen as ‘betting on crypto,’ rather as a pilot into exploring the distributed ledger technology on a wider sca...

Human Protocol has gained unicorn status after it raised $30 million in a fresh funding round led by Kingsway Capital. Other venture capital firms that participated in the seed funding round included Animoca Brands, Blockchain.com, Hashed, and Shima Capital.

Anton and James Peraire-Bueno, aged 24 and 28 respectively, allegedly manipulated the Ethereum blockchain in a mere 12 seconds

Mastercard has onboarded five new startups to be part of its Web3-focussed Smart Path programme. France-based startup Kulipa joined UK-based Parfin and Singapore’s Peaq to be handpicked by Mastercard for the Start Path programme, alongside Belgium-based Venly and US-based Triangle.

Dogeverse, the latest entrant into the memecoin market, has managed to raise $15 million in its Initial Coin Offering (ICO). The $DOGEVERSE token has taken the crypto market by storm and is set to be launched on six different blockchains.

Clinical research centre Mascot Spincontrol and blockchain firm Qila has collaborated to keep the integrity of medical research work intact with secure and tamper-proof data storage. Blockchain technology prevents the concentration of data in one location, making it difficult for hackers or other malicious agents to manipulate the stored informatio...

The concept of SocialFi is to bridge the gap that exists between existing social networking platforms and Web3. It gives users more control over their content, more freedom of speech, and also lets them monetise their content.

The UAE has launched the ‘Dubai Metaverse Strategy’ with the plan to onboard over a thousand Web3 firms onto its industrial ecosystem. This move, the UAE estimates, can see around 40,000 jobs in the next six years.

Germany’s third largest state-owned bank, Kreditanstalt fuer Wiederaufbau (KfW) has decided to join the global list of lenders that are experimenting with blockchain. In the coming days, KfW has planned to launch its first ever blockchain-based digital bond.

The TBTC testnet helps developers figure out the working of potentially usable blockchain solutions. This testnest is used for the testing and development of these solutions.

David Palmer, the lead of Blockchain initiatives at Vodafone has hinted about the company’s Web3 plans during a recent interview. Palmer hinted that blockchain networks, crypto wallets, smartphones, and SIM cards may all come together for a big Web3 twist to Vodafone’s services around the world.

Solana Labs has joined forces with Google Cloud to use the capabilities of Google Cloud to offer its own blockchain-based game development suit to developers. GameShift lets developers integrate non-custodial wallets alongside quick and scalable tools to create and distribute in-game assets. All of these processes are backed on the Solana blockchai...

Casio has launched an NFT series with eight digital art pieces that have been created in partnership with Astar zkEVM. Banking on Japan’s gaming culture, Casio’s NFTs will be made available on Astar’s Yogi Origin game.

The Academy of Blockchain and AI Innovation (ABAII) was recently launched in Vietnam to educate tech students on the potential use cases of blockchain and AI in sectors like banking, data analysis, as well as digital economy and finance. Vietnam is ramping up efforts to join other Asian nations like India, Japan, China, and South Korea in exploring...

Google Cloud has teamed up with a Layer-1 blockchain platform Sui to integrate blockchain solutions with Artificial Intelligence (AI) and other tech initiatives. Both the platforms have planned to work on improving the security and scalability of AI-powered Web3 applications.

The student election voting system in IIT Madras is now working on blockchain networks rather than traditional centralised servers. In conversation with Gadgets 360, the institute said that its experiments with blockchain should not be seen as ‘betting on crypto,’ rather as a pilot into exploring the distributed ledger technology on a wider sca...