Blockchain News

Everyone’s a crypto-native now: How DC learned to stop worrying and love the blockchain

Faced with heightened regulatory interest, crypto has become remarkably fashionable within DC, writes The Block's Kollen Post.

theblockcrypto.com•2 h ago•4 min read

Investors Shouldn’t Abandon Crypto Because of Terra’s Collapse, Says IMF’s Managing Director

Kristalina Georgieva advised investors to stay engaged with the crypto sector as not all blockchain networks are like Terra.

cryptopotato.com•5 h ago•3 min read

WeWork Founder Raises $70M for Carbon Credit Crypto Project, a16z Leads Round

WeWork founder and former CEO Adam Neumann, who resigned amid controversy prior to the company's initial public offering, has launched a crypto startup.His new venture, Flowcarbon, aims to bring the voluntary carbon market to the blockchain. The company just closed a $32 million venture capital round led by a16z, and raised another $38 million via a private presale of the company’s Goddess Nature Token (GNT). The token is backed by a bundle of certified carbon offset credits issued by nature-bas

decrypt.co•7 h ago•3 min read

WEF 2022: Blockchain community breaks stereotypes at Davos

Soramitsu CEO Makoto Takemiya described blockchain companies as the “barbarians at the gate,” storming the World Economic Forum 2022.

cointelegraph.com•10 h ago•3 min read

Adam Neumann-backed blockchain startup Flowcarbon raises $70 million

Flowcarbon, a startup co-founded by former WeWork CEO Adam Neumann, is developing blockchain-based carbon trading tools.

theblockcrypto.com•11 h ago•2 min read

Common Raises $20M to Build DAO Management Platform, Launch Token

The DeFi-focused startup Common has raised $20 million in its latest funding round, with Spark Capital, Polychain, Jump, Wintermute, BitDAO, and others participating.Common’s new funds will go toward the further development and decentralization of its platform, also known as Commonwealth, which aims to become the ultimate community management platform for DAOs. A DAO, or decentralized autonomous organization, is a collective of individuals allied around a common goal who use governance tokens fo

decrypt.co•11 h ago•2 min read

Crypto Could Use More Centralization: DraftKings CEO

Jason Robins is the co-founder and CEO of DraftKings, the popular sports betting and fantasy sports site. He is also a longtime crypto fan who holds a variety of coins and NFTs—and he has some ideas about how to encourage more people to use crypto.Robins believes the current state of crypto is much like the early internet, which was defined in part by rampant scams and complicated interfaces that intimidated non-tech-savvy users. He's hardly the first to draw that comparison, but he believes wha

decrypt.co•12 h ago•3 min read

ADDX bags $58M to reduce min. private investment by 10x via smart contracts

ADDX uses blockchain technology and smart contracts to tokenize and fractionalize private markets, including pre-IPO equity, private equity, and hedge funds and bonds.

cointelegraph.com•15 h ago•2 min read

Project SEED to Shape the Future of Blockchain Gaming

On May 18, 2022, at Permissionless Conference organised by Blockworks in Miami, CEO of Project SEED - Liko Subakti gave...

bitcoinist.com•15 h ago•4 min read

How Tectum Is Using SoftNote To Replace Paper Money and Rewarding Users in Our Ecostream

Tectum team has announced the the SoftNote, a fintech product that brings blockchain technology to traditional ‘cash money’. This product...

bitcoinist.com•16 h ago•4 min read