Tag: web3

Nigeria's Web3 Growth vs. CBEX Scam: A Cautionary Tale

Nigeria's Web3 Growth vs. CBEX Scam: A Cautionary Tale

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Nigeria isn’t just the largest Web3 market today – it’s a paradox. It proudly states a diverse and dynamic environment fueled by innovation and ingenuity. More than anything else, this restless environment is poised to catapult Africa to the front of the decentralized future. On the other hand, it grapples...

Nigeria's Web3 Ecosystem Shows Promise Amidst Regulatory Uncertainty and Funding Challenges

Nigeria's Web3 Ecosystem Shows Promise Amidst Regulatory Uncertainty and Funding Challenges

• Web3 Projects

Nigeria’s Web3 ecosystem has proven impressive resilience and promise, pulling in $130 million in total funding. Despite this, the ecosystem is up against major obstacles, such as a tough regulatory environment and investor wariness. A look at the Nigeria Web3 ecosystem Recent data paints an optimistic yet challenging picture of...

Nigeria's Web3 Boom: SEC's CBEX Failure Threatens Creative Revolution

Nigeria's Web3 Boom: SEC's CBEX Failure Threatens Creative Revolution

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Nigeria is bubbling with Web3 potential. Imagine a country where artists can bypass exploitative galleries, where small businesses can access global markets without crushing bank fees, and where individuals can own their digital identities and data. That’s the potential of Web3 in Nigeria—a potential powered by a youthful, bullish generation...

DFINITY's AI: Web3 Apps Write Themselves! Future of ICP?

DFINITY's AI: Web3 Apps Write Themselves! Future of ICP?

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The world of Web3 is growing and changing rapidly, and one of its most exciting new protocols—DFINITY’s Internet Computer Protocol (ICP)—is leading the way. ICP provides an infinitely scalable and totally decentralized compute layer engineered to serve as the world’s blockchain, powering the next generation of Web3 applications. What if...

Is DFINITY's AI Web3 Builder a DeFi Game Changer or Regulatory Nightmare?

Is DFINITY's AI Web3 Builder a DeFi Game Changer or Regulatory Nightmare?

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The vision of a “Self-Writing Internet,” made possible through DFINITY’s Internet Computer (ICP), is incredibly alluring. Picture this AI, able to produce DeFi apps just from natural language prompts. It sounds like science fiction, doesn't it? The truth is a bit more complicated. While the potential for democratizing DeFi development...

Web3's 'Self-Writing Internet' Levels the Playing Field for Emerging Artists

Web3's 'Self-Writing Internet' Levels the Playing Field for Emerging Artists

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The traditional art world? It's a gilded cage. Gatekeepers, galleries, and opaque pricing structures have artificially created scarcity and decided who was seen and who was never heard. What if that system could be disrupted, not by another app or platform, but by something fundamentally different: a self-writing internet?DFINITY’s Internet...

Coinbase & MetaMask's NFT Backbone Fails: Is Web3 Infrastructure Too Fragile?

Coinbase & MetaMask's NFT Backbone Fails: Is Web3 Infrastructure Too Fragile?

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Reservoir's sunsetting of its NFT API, just two months after a $14 million Series A, feels less like a strategic pivot and more like a canary in a coal mine. A very expensive canary. Coinbase and MetaMask relied on this infrastructure. You likely did too, indirectly. Now what?Centralized Reliance: A...

Reservoir Ditches NFTs: What it Means for Coinbase & MetaMask

Reservoir Ditches NFTs: What it Means for Coinbase & MetaMask

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Reservoir, a well-known platform for NFT infrastructure tools, has decided to shut down its NFT marketplace services. As such, developers and end-users alike have started looking for alternatives. This transition has huge ramifications for heavyweights such as Coinbase and MetaMask, not to mention the entire NFT landscape. Visit this page...

Ubisoft's Web3 Gamble: Empowering Artists or Exploiting Fans?

Ubisoft's Web3 Gamble: Empowering Artists or Exploiting Fans?

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I actually first encountered Anya in a little cafe in Hanoi last year. She’s a phenomenal digital artist—it’s hard to explain, but she makes these deeply atmospheric landscapes based in Vietnamese mythology. We all know Anya’s work is gorgeous, but she can’t even afford to pay her internet bill. She...

Ubisoft Unveils Web3-Based Might & Magic Card Game

Ubisoft Unveils Web3-Based Might & Magic Card Game

• NFT Drops

Ubisoft is expanding its foray into Web3 gaming with the announcement of Might & Magic: Fates, a new NFT-based card game. This tactical adventure grounds skill-centered rivalry and emphasizes in-game accomplishments. It is a noteworthy progress breakthrough for Ubisoft as it makes the biggest move in the blockchain gaming space...

5 Ways This Crypto Bill Empowers Southeast Asian Artists, Not Wall Street

Let’s be honest, when you hear about crypto regulation, your first thought probably isn't Southeast Asian artists finding new avenues for creative expression. Surely visions of Wall Street honchos and inscrutable derivatives dance in your head. Well, what if I told you that the Senate’s Banking Committee just released their...

Crypto's 'Light-Touch' Regulation Gamble Will It Protect You?

The Senate Committee’s proposed “light-touch” regulatory framework for crypto is a long high-stakes poker game. Are we all truly holding a winning hand, or are we collectively bluffing our way into a future financial crisis? It’s a question every investor, every innovator, and frankly, every citizen should want to know....

Donald Trump Jr. Headlines Korea Blockchain Week 2025

Korea Blockchain Week (KBW) 2025, Asia’s largest and most influential Web3 conference, is returning to Seoul this coming September. The collaborative innovation summit recently announced its second wave of speakers and lead partners. You can expect big names such as Donald Trump Jr., Keone Hon from Monad Foundation, Guy Young...

Schiff's Crypto Ban: Is He Protecting Us or Silencing Innovation?

Senator Adam Schiff's proposed crypto ban, the COIN Act, aimed at preventing the President (read: Donald Trump) from dabbling in digital assets, raises a critical question: Is this genuine protection against corruption, or a veiled attempt to stifle innovation, especially for emerging markets? Let's be real, the optics are terrible....

Civitas Goes Immutable: Faster, Cheaper, and Gas-Free Trading!

Civitas is making a massive leap into the future of blockchain gaming, so join us! As an official partner of Immutable’s, our competitive game officially migrated from Ethereum to the Immutable zkEVM. This change will transform the Civitas experience for players all over the world. This new transition brings with...

Civitas Adopts Immutable Passport for Gas-Free Gameplay

Welcome to Civitas, an exciting new digital universe where players create and lead their own city-states. To make that experience all the more seamless, they’ve recently added Immutable Passport. This transition allows players to shape their civilization's future using augmented reality (AR), on-chain tools, and subDAOs without incurring gas costs....

ProCap's Bitcoin SPAC: A Gateway for Southeast Asia's Untapped Crypto Potential?

I still vividly recall my first meeting with Anya, in a tiny cafe in Hanoi. She was a wonderful ceramic artist, unable to gain traction to have her work shown and, even more crucially, compensated for appropriately. Traditional galleries took their astronomical commissions, and international transfers were a nightmare of...