TOKEN2049 in Dubai felt different this year. The shisha smoke had begun to swirl, but the mood began to change. Remember the ICO craze? The meme coin mania? Those days now seemed like a distant, somewhat mortifying, memory. This year, the VCs weren’t just asking about “disruptive innovation” – they...
It's happening. You feel it, right? The market's shifting. Crypto is more than meme coins and pump and dump schemes in the past. That smart money – real smart money – is still flowing in, but not to the same types of places it used to be. This time, VCs...
Venture capital firms are pouring billions of dollars into projects working on confidentiality, tokenization, and Web3 infrastructure. This dramatic increase in funding is a clear vote of confidence in these technologies. Put simply, they have the potential to change the face of blockchain technology, as well as traditional finance itself....
Okay, let's be real. I think we’ve all been burned by the Web3 hype machine at this point. Decentralization, artist empowerment, a decentralized, democratic, new utopian internet—it really did offer the world. Unfortunately, too frequently these ideals have soured into rug pulls, high gas fees, and ape JPEGs that go...
Huge venture capital firms are excitedly supporting Web3 startups. These companies are absolutely committed to making the Internet more private, making social media better and making our cybersecurity stronger. Inco, Towns Protocol, Octane, and Optimum have collectively secured millions in funding to advance their respective projects in the blockchain space....
On-chain crypto fundraising surged this week. Auradine’s $50 million Series C round and $100 million investments by VentureX into environment-related agritech companies spurred this increase. Auradine, a blockchain infrastructure venture launched in 2022, raised the week’s biggest funding round. VentureX is known for their early stage support of world leading...
