Tal Broda, who joined Paradigm a year ago from Citadel Securities, said he would pursue opportunities closer to his prior experience.
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Coinbase Introduces New Feature To Attract Millions Of Users To Web3, Here’s How
Coinbase has announced the launch of a new feature that the largest exchange in the U.S. claims will attract millions of users to web3. The new product, “Wallet as a Service” (WaaS), will allow businesses to build new web3 experiences with simplified wallet onboarding.
With the creation of WaaS, companies can integrate native wallets into their applications. Users with access to Web3 multi-party computation (MPC), cryptographic technology that allows users to create a “key” to be shared between the end customer and Coinbase.
Major companies focused on creating Dapps, developing frameworks, and delivering token-based experiences on the web3, such as Floor, Moonray, Thirdweb, and Tokenproof are currently building on Coinbase’s WaaS.
Women Are Being Shut Out Of Web3; These Women Are Building Anyway
While only 13% of Web3 startups include a female founder and women represent just 27% of the top Web3 startups’ workforce, these women remain as determined as ever to shape our digital future.
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How to Use a DAO to Build a Web3 Community
The community-based projects could become one of the biggest growth engines in the Web3 space, but more agile governance structures may need to be put in place to unleash their full potential.
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Napster Revives Its Music Ambitions With Web3 Acquisition of Mint Songs
The brand first known for peer-to-peer music sharing from 1999-2001 announced their purchase of the music-focused NFT marketplace.
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Binance Charity Set To Fund Over 30,000 Web3 Education Scholarships In 2023
Binance Charity – the philanthropic branch of the Binance Exchange – has announced its plan to provide over 30,000 Web3 education scholarships as part of its Binance Scholar Program.
According to an official blog post on the crypto exchange’s website, Binance Charity revealed it has processed over 82,000 applications to the Binance Scholar Program since the launch of the initiative back in July 2022.
So far, 67,155 of these applications have been approved for funding, with 36,500 slots awarded back in 2022, while the remaining 30,655 places are to be allocated in 2023.
Polygon Announces Partnership With Mastercard To Launch Web3 Artist Accelerator Program
Leading blockchain platform Polygon has announced its latest collaboration with Mastercard to launch a Web3 accelerator program aimed at bringing budding musical artists into the spotlight by leveraging Web3 technology and other blockchain-based innovations.
Mastercard is one of the world’s biggest payment processing companies and is well-known for its massive commitment to promoting emerging music talent.
According to Polygon, the Mastercard Artist Accelerator program is set to begin in the spring of 2023 with only five artists who could be musicians, DJs or producers, thus, representing the different walks of the music industry.
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The accelerator helps connect founders with potential investors.
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Gaming Platform Forte Partners With Venture Studio SuperLayer to Expand Beyond Web3 Gaming
The blockchain platform also invested $ 5 million in the venture studio, which will go towards backing incubated companies.
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Crypto Scam Report Shows Web3 Experienced 15 New Fraudulent Smart Contracts
Solidus Labs functions to carry out crypto operations based on the crypto-native T3 (Triple T) market integration solutions (MIS). These market solutions include threat intelligence, monitoring of transactions, and trade surveillance.
Its primary mission is to ensure the safety of crypto transactions and investments throughout all decentralized finance (DeFi) and centralized markets. Solidus Labs, situated in New York, United States, began its actions in 2017.
In the meantime, there are about 12 leading blockchains under the company’s radar to detect possible theft or fraudulence cases. The need to monitor and carry out threat surveillance in the crypto industry is necessary, considering the high possibility of scams.
How This Elon Musk-Based NFT Collection Launched As A Web3 Cultural Movement
Social commerce platform Basic.Space revealed its role in the launch of the Elon Musk-inspired non-fungible token (NFT) collection Elon.Space. Created as a cultural experiment powered by Basic.Space and Web3, the NFT collection is a “thoughtful” integration of new technologies and fashion bridging the real world with the digital.
Basic.Space’s collections are featured in Forbes, Vogue, Highsnobiety, and other major media platforms due to its innovative concepts and designs. The social commerce platform is trying to push the boundaries of fashion with digital assets and Web3 by providing users with a unique experience.
Nansen Enables Direct Messaging Between Crypto Wallets With This Web3 App
On-chain analytics firm Nansen launched an extended version of their Web3 app, Connect, to everyone with a crypto wallet. The new version of the Web3 app follows a close beta phase launched in June 2022, according to a press release shared with Bitcoinist.
In crypto, investors can gain an edge over other participants by engaging in communities. The latter is particularly true for the decentralized finance (DeFi) and non-fungible token (NFT) sectors, where early users are often rewarded. Connect was created to facilitate this process.
ETH’s price moving sideways on the daily chart. Source: ETHUSDT Tradingview Nansen Provides More Use Cases To Crypto Wallets
Entertainment Giant Konami Seeks Personnel To Set Foothold In Metaverse And Web3
The billion-dollar entertainment conglomerate Konami will jump into the Web3 and Metaverse with its own products and services. The company made the announcement via its official website with the launch of new positions to create the team that will allow them to enter the nascent sector.
Famous as a video game, trading cards, anime, developer, and publisher, the Japanese company has launched classic titles like Metal Gear, Silent Hill, Castlevania, Contra, Yu-Gi-Oh!, Dance Dance Revolution, and others. Konami has made an impact on popular and video game culture.
Liberal Arts Colleges Show the ‘Inherent Interdisciplinary’ Nature of Web3
A traditional liberal arts education may not yet afford students the ability to exclusively major in cryptocurrency. However, because it’s an interdisciplinary subject, several professors are finding ways to incorporate Web3 concepts into their coursework.
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Epic Games Doubles Down On Web3 Gaming Support, Adds Solana-Based ‘Star Atlas’ To It’s Slate
It’s been a busy month for Epic Games when it comes to blockchain engagement. The Epic Games Store launched it’s first supported blockchain-based title, Blankos Block Party, earlier this month – and now it’s adding a second title to it’s slate of offerings.
Let’s take a look at the title and what we can expect when it goes live.
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Urbit Is Web3, Weird and Wonderful and I Don’t Care Who Made It
Curtis Yarvin’s ideology aside, the peer-to-peer computer network he designed should be evaluated on its own merits.
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What Post-Roe America Tells Us About the Need for Privacy, Web3
Control over our online data is intimately linked with bodily autonomy.
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Why Crypto Winter Hasn’t Dulled the Passion for Web3 Sex Work
After experiencing skyrocketing growth during the crypto bull run last year, many players are down and out. What survives now that it has popped, mainly believers, will be stronger, some say.
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