Lisa Neigut’s Base58 Gets First-Ever Bitcoin Grant From Donor-Advised Fund Offchain Labs, developer of Arbitrum, announced “Fast Withdrawals,” allowing select Orbit chains and RaaS providers to achieve withdrawal finality in under 15 minutes, a significant improvement from the usual wait time of up to seven days. This feature reduces withdrawal times by over 90%, making … Read more
Yala, Bitcoin Liquidity Layer Featuring Stablecoin Protocol, Raises $8M in Seed Round Yala, a Bitcoin liquidity platform, recently raised $8 million in a seed round led by Polychain Capital and Ethereal Ventures. Other investors include Galaxy Vision Hill, Anagram, and more. The funding will be used to expand Yala’s engineering, growth, and security teams in … Read more
XProtocol Unveils ‘World’s First Node-Operated DePIN Smartphone’ Theta Labs has launched EdgeCloud for Mobile, where Android users can contribute spare GPU power to the Theta EdgeCloud network and earn TFUEL tokens. The app, available on Google Play, helps support AI research in various industries and cuts GPU-intensive task costs by over 50% compared to traditional … Read more
Radix Plans $37M Endowment Fund, Fetch.ai Starts San Francisco Innovation Lab Legion, a merit-based ICO platform, has raised $2 million from various backers including Cyber Fund, AllianceDAO, and others. The platform aims to become MiCA compliant and offer investment opportunities to non-accredited investors. By ranking investors based on merit rather than net-wealth, Legion believes that … Read more
Cubist Adds Key Managment Support for Bitcoin, Stork Launches ‘Open Data Market’ Nillion, a blind computation network, partnered with Ritual, a decentralized AI infrastructure network. The collaboration aims to develop decentralized blind AI inference technology to make AI more accessible. By combining Nillion’s blind computation technology with Ritual’s infrastructure, traditional and Web3 applications can securely … Read more
The Latest Tech News in Crypto and Blockchain On March 2, Babylon announced a collaboration with Ankr to bring security and liquidity to proof-of-stake chains using liquid staking tokens. Ottr joined Tools For Humanity to develop the World App. Wormhole introduced Native Token Transfers for multichain tokens. BOB unveiled an ETH-settled rollup solution. Taiko raised … Read more
The Latest Tech News in Crypto and Blockchain Meso, a payment platform that connects banks and blockchains, has raised $9.5 million in a seed round led by Solana Ventures and Ribbit Capital. Other participants include 6th Man Ventures, Canonical Crypto, Phantom Co-Founder Chris Kalani, Pinterest CEO Bill Ready, and Archie Puri of Bodhi Labs. The … Read more
The Latest Tech News in Crypto and Blockchain Cube.Exchange, a digital asset trading platform, has raised $12 million in a Series A fundraise led by 6th Man Ventures. Other investors include Asymmetric, ParaFi Digital, Foundation Capital, Susquehanna Private Equity Investments, GSR Markets, and more. The funds will be used to expand various aspects of the … Read more
Lessons from launching SPEEDRUN, the Games x Tech startup accelerator at andrewchen The writer announces that they got married and shares details of their small ceremony in Moab, Utah. They also mention that they have some “behind the scenes” projects to write about at a16z. They discuss the launch of a new effort called SPEEDRUN, … Read more
