Meet Aisha, dynamic young professional from Bangalore. She’s teaching herself how to code. Inspired by the possibilities of Web3, she started an independent consulting firm to assist the small businesses of her community in adopting blockchain solutions. She was pulling down a pretty good wage, supporting her nuclear family, and...
The Web3 world is buzzing. HackerNoon’s “Startups of The Year 2024” is the world’s largest decentralized startup competition. It includes more than 150,000 participants and has received almost 300,000 votes in the Web3 category so far. So now we’re in this incredible kind of Cambrian moment of innovation in decentralization,...
Now the HackerNoon 2024 Startups of the Year awards are in full swing, honoring the brightest young companies, worldwide, in every industry. Among the winners is GGEZ1 Foundation DAO, which has set itself apart in various categories. Even more impressive, a record breaking 1,936 startups entered the competitions. Combined, they...
In the Wild West of crypto, transparency is no longer a luxury—it’s the law enforcement officer. The Trump family’s connection to the USD1 stablecoin, a controversial crypto asset, deserves further investigation. Instead, it looks like the wild west indoc with a lot of secrets to hide.USD1 is currently making waves,...
The wild west days are over. Do you imagine you’re inventing the future of finance. Regulators are rightly considering the need to protect investors as they do so. That disconnect is no ordinary chasm—it’ll swallow your DeFi dreams whole. Forget your starry-eyed moonshots for a minute, and let’s discuss the...
The Web3 landscape is one of greatest change, a hurricane of opportunity and pivot. Packed in between all the noise are a few startups that are really standing out, exhibiting what an amazing decentralized future could look like. This year’s “Startups of the Year” awards were dedicated to the most...
World Liberty Financial's (WLF) recent unveiling of its USD1 stablecoin has sparked considerable discussion and raised regulatory questions, largely due to former President Donald Trump's connection to the project. That’s a big deal because 127,971,165 tokens are already in circulation. USD1 is on a mission to stake its claim to...
$7.5 million. That’s the haul MagicBlock, a Solana-based real-time multiplayer game engine, just raised. Lightspeed Faction was first to commit, followed by Maven11 and Delphi Digital quickly joining the fray. It definitely sounds sexy, doesn't it? So before we get too pumped for Web3, pump the brakes a little bit....
Southeast Asia. An area humming with artistic innovation, business ingenuity, and a cultural proclivity for valuing private expertise. Now, Inco, flush with a new $5 million, believes they hold the proverbial magic key to the region’s Web3 potential. Is it all just smoke and mirrors, or can privacy truly be...
Inco's recent $5 million strategic funding round, led by a16z CSX and including Coinbase Ventures, is more than just another VC injection into Web3. It's a flashing neon sign pointing towards the elephant in the room hindering TradFi's wholesale adoption of DeFi: a desperate need for confidentiality. You can’t engineer...
