Tagged: dapps

March 11, 2024 @ 5:18 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Cosmology, the tech suite that enables developers to build Web3 apps in the Cosmos ecosystem, has closed its $5M seed round, co-led by Galileo and Lemniscap with participation from Dispersion, Hashkey, Tuesday Capital, the Osmosis Foundation, Chorus One, Informal Systems, and angels including Kevin Lin,… Read More

February 4, 2024 @ 1:23 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

2024 kicks off in the shadow of the approaching Bitcoin halving, casting a wave of “optimism” across the Web3 industry, according to an update from DappRadar. With on-chain metrics signaling a “positive trend,” the start of the year, despite its highs and lows, sketches an… Read More

February 2, 2024 @ 2:46 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Wirex, a Web3 money app, is pleased to introduce early access to WPay, which is describe as a decentralized payment network, utilizing the capabilities of the Wirex platform. WPay reportedly solves problems “related to intermediaries, custody risks, and slow, expensive settlements.” With WPay, users can… Read More

December 15, 2023 @ 7:56 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Jameson Lopp, co-founder and CTO at Casa, has shared key insights after the widely reported Ledger hack / security breach that appears to be impacting a large number of DeFi platforms and dApps, with some unconfirmed reports indicating major losses of crypto funds. Lopp, who… Read More

October 27, 2023 @ 12:41 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ramp, a financial technology company building payment rails connecting the crypto economy to the global financial system, announced a partnership with Linea, a developer-ready zkEVM rollup for scaling Ethereum dapps. This collaboration combines Linea Network’s blockchain technology “with Ramp Network’s robust global payments infrastructure.” In… Read More

October 21, 2023 @ 2:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Copper.co, one of the industry’s digital asset custodians, is announcing further growth of integrated blockchains with Stacks, a network that enables the creation of decentralized applications (dApps) and smart contracts on top of the Bitcoin blockchain. Stacks reportedly combines “the strength, security, and capital of… Read More

October 20, 2023 @ 6:53 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Sunny Lu, CEO at VeChain, recently shared key insights exclusively with Crowdfund Insider. Recently, Vechain hosted its first Hackathon at Harvard University on the 7th and 8th of October. Following a selection from over 10,000 applicants, the 36-hour coding and collaboration event brought together 200… Read More

October 15, 2023 @ 3:31 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

During the past month, the crypto industry has experienced rapid growth. OKX Ventures has identified several scenarios where significant progress has been made: SocialFi has introduced “remarkable” products. Friend.tech has reportedly “generated over 10,000 ETH in revenue, with a TVL surpassing 30,000 ETH.” Their total… Read More

September 25, 2023 @ 8:57 am By Omar Faridi  |  

MakerDAO co-founder Rune Christensen has submitted a proposal to build the project’s upcoming native chain using Solana’s codebase, which led to Vitalik Buterin selling $580,000 worth of MakerDAO’s MKR token in rebellion. The move may be an indication that ecosystem participants want to explore different… Read More

September 22, 2023 @ 12:40 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Chainlink, the industry-standard Web3 services platform, and Arbitrum, the most widely used layer 2 scaling solution suite for Ethereum dApp development, have announced today the mainnet launch of the Chainlink Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) on Arbitrum One. CCIP provides Web3 developers “with a secure, easy-to-use… Read More

September 9, 2023 @ 4:32 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Socket, an interoperability protocol that allows asset and data transfer across chains for decentralized applications (dapps), announced a $5 million strategic investment from Coinbase Ventures, the venture arm of one of the world’s largest crypto platforms, and Framework Ventures, a crypto-native venture capital firm known… Read More

August 5, 2023 @ 2:06 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

We recently connected with Luis Ocegueda, Engineering Lead at Trust Wallet, which claims to be the world’s most trusted and secure crypto wallet with 60 million+ downloads. It’s worth noting that, earlier this year, Trust Wallet did experience certain security issues, leading to a considerable… Read More

July 4, 2023 @ 12:28 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Decentralization theatre: We’ve heard it time and time again in recent months as several projects have struggled to commit to the underlying ideological tenets of blockchain amid growing skepticism of the space. Others have fared relatively well, though — from the community-initiated vote for the… Read More

July 3, 2023 @ 7:14 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The global financial system is undergoing a fundamental shift, “with embedded crypto playing a major role in the broader adoption of digital assets.” Dynamic is helping to lead this revolution “with the development of its web3-first authentication and authorization platform that harnesses the magic of… Read More

June 29, 2023 @ 6:44 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Recently, The Graph, a protocol for indexing and querying blockchain data, eclipsed one trillion queries. For years, subgraphs on The Graph have “been powering thousands of decentralized applications (dapps) in development and production across the hosted service and Graph Network.” There are over 74,000 subgraphs… Read More

June 25, 2023 @ 5:03 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

We recently connected with Dr. Ben Zhang, COO & Co-founder of NodeReal, which claims to be a one-stop blockchain infrastructure and service provider that embraces the high-speed blockchain era and empowers developers by “Make your Web3 Real”. They aim to provide scalable, reliable, and efficient blockchain… Read More

June 21, 2023 @ 9:53 am By Omar Faridi  |  

We recently caught up with Valerii Brizhatiuk, Chief Product Officer, Co-Founder at Swisstronik, a layer-1 solution designed to build scalable decentralized applications that ensure users’ data protection and privacy, while remaining in compliance with local regulations. According to the project team, Swisstronik is unique because… Read More

May 21, 2023 @ 10:47 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Chainlink, the industry-standard Web3 services platform, and Arbitrum, the Layer 2 scaling solution suite for Ethereum dApp development, have announced the launch of Chainlink VRF (Verifiable Random Function) on Arbitrum One. Chainlink VRF is described as “the industry’s most widely adopted random number generator (RNG),… Read More

May 16, 2023 @ 4:11 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Users will be able to create dApps with wallet-based authentication and equip digital assets with DIDs. Apillon claims that it “marks a new important milestone by introducing a next-gen Web3 authentication service, powered by KILT Protocol, to the Apillon platform.” As devs will be able… Read More

May 15, 2023 @ 12:32 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

NEAR Foundation, the non-profit that supports the on-going growth and development of the Near Protocol, and Outlier Ventures, the global Web3 investor and accelerator, announced the launch of the NEAR Base Camp accelerator program. The first dedicated accelerator program by NEAR Foundation will “take a… Read More