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...
$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, a Web3 confidentiality-as-a-service provider, has closed an oversubscribed strategic round led by The Venture Reality Fund. a16z CSX led this investment to support accelerating Inco’s mission. The company is releasing its inaugural product, Inco Lightning, on Base Sepolia. Inco Lightning aims to bring that level of confidentiality to every...
Inco’s mission is to address this pressing confidentiality need in Web3. They recently raised $5 million in a Series A strategic round to continue their work. Andreessen Horowitz Crypto Startup Accelerator (a16z CSX) is leading the investment with a9d. This funding advances Inco’s goal of building a confidentiality technology layer...
On April 24th, the NFT community was rocked by a sudden tidal wave, as RTFKT’s CloneX NFTs appeared to have disappeared. Users quickly found themselves unable to view the images connected to their precious digital goods. The culprit? A Cloudflare account downgrade that revealed just how bad the centralized NFT...
We all saw it: the dreaded black screen. Your prized CloneX NFT may have been a status symbol of your digital life. Now, it’s being overshadowed by a pretty shocking warning about Cloudflare’s Terms of Service. It wasn’t a hack or a rug pull or even an especially glamorous crypto...
I’ll never forget the first time that we met Nandar in Yangon in 2021. Her lips curled into a smile as she buzzed with excitement explaining her vision. NFTs would democratize the art world in Myanmar, allowing artists to market directly to collectors around the world, without established gallery gatekeepers....
Or, I think back with great enthusiasm to last year, when we interviewed a young, amazingly talented digital artist from Malaysia. So imagine that she had been super excited about NFTs. Finally, she discovered a means of escaping the art world gatekeepers and reaching right past them, directly to collectors....
The NFT space soon learned that relying on decentralized storage solutions must come with caveats. Last week, pictures associated with the widely held CloneX NFT hoard and other Ethereum NFTs from RTFKT simply disappeared. Instead of the digital art they assumed they would receive, they were greeted with an all-black...
