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Ticketmaster sucks. Can blockchain be the cure?

March 25, 2023 Anna Heim 8 ViewsEC Blockchain, EC Newsletter, event ticketing, NFTs, TechCrunch Exchange newsletter, The Exchange, TicketMaster 1 min read

Is there still hope for concertgoers?

OP3N raises $28M to build ‘WhatsApp meets Amazon’ for web3

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OP3N raises $28M to build ‘WhatsApp meets Amazon’ for web3

March 21, 2023 Jacquelyn Melinek 8 ViewsAI, crypto, crypto ecosystem, Dragonfly Capital, funding, musical artists, NFTs, Series A, web3 2 min read

OP3N, a web3 AI-powered platform, raised a $28 million Series A round that values the company at $100 million, the startup shared exclusively with TechCrunch. “I wanted to make a connection for creators, chats and commerce in one place,” Jaeson Ma, co-CEO of OP3N, said to TechCrunch. “It’s a web3 version of WhatsApp meets Amazon, […]

Meet the women-led web3 startups from Thousand Faces’ demo day

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Meet the women-led web3 startups from Thousand Faces’ demo day

March 8, 2023 Jacquelyn Melinek 21 Viewsaccelerators, blockchain, crypto ecosystem, NFTs 5 min read

Thousand Faces, a web3 community-based investment group, hosted its demo day on Wednesday with the top 10 startups from its Female Founder Accelerator program.

Which Ethereum-focused startups will survive the Merge?

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Are NFT marketplaces becoming an open sea for creator royalties?

March 2, 2023 Jacquelyn Melinek 23 ViewsAlex Adelman, Chain Reaction, NFTs, web3 4 min read

February wrapped up as a big month for the NFT market as non-fungible tokens on the Ethereum blockchain surpassed $1.5 billion in volume for the first time since May 2022.

Bitcoin rewards and NFTs may help grow the blockchain

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Bitcoin rewards and NFTs may help grow the blockchain

February 25, 2023 Jacquelyn Melinek 27 ViewsBitcoin, Chain Reaction, Chain Reaction newsletter, chain reaction pod, Chain Reaction podcast, NFTs, rewards 2 min read

Welcome back to Chain Reaction, a podcast diving deep into the stories, backgrounds and latest news with the biggest names in crypto. For this week’s episode, I interviewed Alex Adelman, the co-founder and CEO of Lolli. Founded in 2018, Lolli is a bitcoin rewards app that lets people earn bitcoin or cash back when they […]

Solana co-founder says NFTs have ’50 different use cases’ that can onboard millions this year

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NFTs could give Bitcoin a facelift as it increases its blockchain demand

February 16, 2023 Jacquelyn Melinek 40 ViewsChain Reaction, Chain Reaction podcast, crypto, NFTs, ordinals 5 min read

The past few weeks in crypto land have been focused on the latest craze: Ordinals. What are Ordinals, you ask?

Bitcoin-based app Strike expands in Philippines to grow cross-border payment solutions

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Ordinals creator views his Bitcoin-centric creation as ‘digital artifacts,’ not just NFTs

February 16, 2023 Jacquelyn Melinek 41 ViewsBitcoin, bitcoin nfts, crypto, EC Blockchain, EC Cryptocurrency, NFTs, ordinals 2 min read

About 122,500 Bitcoin-focused Ordinals have been inscribed to date as the project gains momentum across the crypto ecosystem.

Former Amazon, Starbucks exec launches Yelp-like platform to review and discover NFTs

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Former Amazon, Starbucks exec launches Yelp-like platform to review and discover NFTs

February 16, 2023 Jacquelyn Melinek 35 Viewscrypto, crypto ecosystem, ethereum, NFT, NFTs, Polygon, THRED, Yelp 3 min read

Amid signs of life in the NFT market, an NFT-focused startup, Thred, launched today to help users discover new collections, the company exclusively told TechCrunch. “We think of it like a Yelp, Tripadvisor or Zillow of the space,” Ben Straley, founder and CEO of Thred, said to TechCrunch. Straley has over 25 years of experience […]