IT総合 Sardine raises $51.5M led by a16z to sniff out fishy fintech transactions
As fintechs become more efficient, so too do fraudsters.
“Faster instant payments mean faster fraud,” Sardin...
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IT総合 Chain Reaction x Equity talk the Ethereum Merge
If you are into web3, the biggest news of the week in tech was not the massive Figma-Adobe deal. No, the leading story ...
IT総合 Allocations just got valued at $150M to help private equity funds lure smaller investors
Interest in alternative investments such as private equity, real estate and crypto continues to surge, and Miami-based f...
IT総合 Meltem Demirors on why society isn’t ready for a crypto-driven revolution yet
Meltem Demirors hasn’t just been working in crypto for seven years — she’s been shaping its trajectory...
IT総合 Goldsky raises $20M to bring real-time, on-chain data to crypto companies
Despite well-known volatility in the crypto market, crypto startups building infrastructure to support the industry̵...
IT総合 Why this Californian founder moved to Minneapolis to build a B2B fintech
Minneapolis-based Branch was founded in 2015, and it’s now one of the fastest-growing companies in the Midwest. Its foun...
IT総合 Y Combinator is doubling down on crypto founders despite market volatility
Crypto founders have heard the saying a thousand times in the past few months – there’s no better time to build than dur...
IT総合 Polychain puts its money on HotStreak to streamline sports betting using blockchain
In the world of sports betting, instant payments and reliable custody are key to the user experience. HotStreak, a web3 ...
IT総合 A video game industry veteran on making the art behind popular NFTs
Welcome back to Chain Reaction, where we unpack and explain the latest in crypto news, drama and trends, breaking things...
IT総合 How the upcoming Ethereum Merge could change crypto’s rewards, costs and reputation
Ethereum, the second-largest blockchain by market cap, is about to undergo a massive transformation known to the crypto ...
IT総合 Draftea kicks off LatAm fantasy football with NFL partnership, fresh funding
Draftea, which calls itself the first daily fantasy sports company in Spanish-speaking Latin America, is taking fantasy ...
IT総合 It’s not a DAO, it’s a Koop: 21-year-old founder raises $5M for NFT fan engagement
Natalia Murillo was an undergraduate at the University of Southern California when a professor taught her about the cryp...
IT総合 Star-studded digital avatar startup Genies launches NFT fashion marketplace
Digital avatar startup Genies, known its for high-profile partnerships with celebrities such as Justin Bieber, Migos and...
IT総合 Investment clubs are cool again, and maybe community is, too
The bets are no longer just on Wall Street — they’re in your group chats, book clubs and that awkward shuffle that happe...
IT総合 Polygon founder raises $50M for emerging markets-focused web3 venture fund
Ethereum layer-two scaling platform Polygon raised $450 million earlier this year in its first major financing round. No...
IT総合 $10B crypto developer platform Alchemy buys coding bootcamp in first-ever acquisition
Web3 developer infrastructure startup Alchemy, which last raised a $200 million Series C1 last February, has just made i...
IT総合 Mad Realities’ Devin Lewtan is onboarding crypto users through reality television
Web3 doesn’t have the most inclusive reputation, yet so many crypto founders talk about onboarding the next 100 mi...
IT総合 Y Combinator alumni raise $80 million for DAO to back crypto startups
Groups of people seeking to invest together have been turning to the crypto-native DAO (decentralized autonomous organiz...
IT総合 Complete helps startups think through the ‘why’ and ‘how’ of employee pay
For early-stage startups looking to hire new talent, it’s not enough to make one-off decisions about pay as each n...
IT総合 Crypto, where the fallen seek a fresh start
Welcome back to Chain Reaction.
Last week, we talked about privacy in crypto and how it’s sometimes at odds with r...
IT総合 Do Kwon’s Terra trauma and drama lives to see another day
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There are some events in your life that you look back on and think to yourself, “Wow, th...
IT総合 a16z says “WeBack” to WeWork’s Neumann with its biggest check ever
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) seems determined to keep the capital flowing to controversial WeWork founder Adam Neumann. Th...
IT総合 Uniswap Labs COO MC Lader on the incentives behind DeFi
Crypto lending and financial services companies have been at the forefront of the industry’s latest controversies ...
IT総合 Why Twitter anons are sending crypto to celebrities
Welcome back to Chain Reaction.
Last week, we talked about a hack that gave new, ironic meaning to the word “trust...
IT総合 Mark Cuban, Mavericks in hot water over Voyager “Ponzi scheme”
Lawsuits from disgruntled investors are beginning to stack up after crypto prices plummeted in over the past few months,...
IT総合 ‘Selling Sunset’ star Christine Quinn’s brokerage debuts new crypto credit scoring platform
For fans of both reality television and web3 (hopefully that group includes more than just this reporter), Christine Qui...
IT総合 Twitch founder Justin Kan: Web3 games don’t need to lure players with profit
Top crypto VCs are constantly touting the potential of video games as one of the most compelling use cases for blockchai...
IT総合 Play now, pay later: Halliday bags $6M seed round led by a16z
Blockchain-based games have seen a surge in popularity, but playing them is getting expensive. Play-to-earn games like S...
IT総合 BlackRock hops on bitcoin bandwagon with new Coinbase tie-up
After years of resisting, the world’s largest asset manager has finally taken the plunge into crypto in a substant...
IT総合 Upstream’s new vault could help NFT holders sleep at night
Imagine paying millions of dollars for a JPEG of a monkey just to have it stolen from your digital wallet. That’s ...