Month: November 2022
The PDSA loop – Plan-Do-Study-Act
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Did Sponsoring Stadiums Bring New Crypto Traders, or Tourists?
By some metrics, Crypto.com and FTX’s stadium sponsorship campaigns were a remarkable success. Whether they succeeded in onboarding a new generation of crypto traders remains to be seen.
WhatsApp officially launches its new discussion group feature, Communities
WhatsApp today is officially launching Communities, the new feature offering larger, more structured discussion groups that first entered into testing earlier this year. Designed to help organizations, clubs, schools, and other private groups better communicate and stay organized, Communities bring a number of new features to the messaging platform, including admin controls, support for sub-groups … Read more
WhatsApp gets better for big groups with new Communities and 32-person video chats
Communities are like Discord, but for WhatsApp. | The Verge Meta is rolling out a few changes to WhatsApp that will make the app better to use for large circles of people, including the wide rollout of Communities. Communities are designed to house multiple related groups within bigger organizations of people, such as a neighborhood … Read more
Bump builds a central hub for all your APIs
Meet Bump, a French software-as-a-service startup that wants to help you maintain and use APIs across your organization. The company automatically generates documentation for your APIs so that other teams always know how to use certain APIs. Over time, Bump becomes the central repository for all things related to your APIs. It acts as a … Read more
Meet Seoul-based accelerator SparkLabs’ 19th batch of startups
SparkLabs Korea, a Seoul-based seed to early-stage accelerator, held a demo Day on Thursday for its 19th cohort of companies. The latest demo day marks its tenth year after SparkLabs launched its accelerator program in December 2012. The accelerator has backed more than 270 startups since its inception in 2012, co-founder and partner of SparkLabs … Read more
Decentralized Storage Solution Arweave’s Native Token Surges 60% on Meta Integration
Meta, a Web2 giant, brings data permanency to Instagram with the help of Arweave’s decentralized storage technology.
Singapore’s MAS Starts Wholesale CBDC Project With French and Swiss Central Banks
The project comes a day after the central bank announced new projects aimed at trade finance and wealth management.
MiCA bill contains a clear warning for crypto influencers
The European Union’s crypto regulation bill, set to be made law following some additional steps, contains a section that could impact many crypto influencers.
ASIC’s Longo pledges action against certain ‘high-risk’ crypto products
The chair of Australia’s market regulator has warned that “action will be taken” on financial product issuers who promote risky products to a wide consumer base.
Robinhood not giving up on crypto despite Q3 crypto revenue slashing 12%
The Robinhood CEO also announced the brokerage firm’s plans to expand the Robinhood Wallet internationally in the months to come.
CBDCs are no threat to crypto, says Binance boss
Binance CEO Changpeng “CZ” Zhao says there is room for CBDCs and crypto, and that he didn’t see it as a threat to his company or the sector.
Arbitrum transaction activity rockets 550% since August: Delphi Digital
Following the Nitro upgrade, activity on Arbitrum has surged and has nearly two-thirds of the transaction activity seen on the Ethereum base layer.
Gopher Protocol (2020)
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Programmer spends 69 nights in ‘Bitcoin Cash City’ using only BCH: Here’s how it went
Silverblood says using Bitcoin Cash as payment method “makes sense” because it’s part of his income and “it’s less effort than some of the other forms of payment I use.”
Twitter cancels its Chirp conference for developers amid management transition
Twitter is canceling its Chirp conference for developers amid management transition, the company said late Thursday. After Elon Musk took over the company last month, there have been several executive exits and directional changes in the company’s product strategy. So it is not surprising that social network is abandoning its plan for the conference’s return … Read more
Dapper Labs Cuts 22% of Staff as NFT Market Craters
Sales volume for Dapper Labs’ NBA Top Shot has declined to $2.6 million from $224 million in February 2021.
Tiger Global-backed SaaS startup Chargebee cuts 10% jobs
Chargebee, backed by marquee investors including Tiger Global and Sequoia Capital India, has laid off about 10% of its staff in a “reorganization” effort due to ongoing global macroeconomic challenges and growing operational debt. The Chennai and San Francisco-headquartered startup, which offers billing, subscription, revenue and compliance management solutions, confirmed to TechCrunch that the update … Read more
Come one, come all! Meta to bring NFT minting and trading to Instagram
An “end-to-end toolkit” for creators to make, show, and sell “digital collectibles” is coming to the social media platform Instagram.
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JP Morgan executes first DeFi trade on public blockchain
The MAS Chief Fintech Officer said the successful test was “a big step towards enabling more efficient and integrated global financial networks.”
Sacca’s Lowercarbon doubles down on startup bringing solar modules to Indian rooftops
Chris Sacca’s Lowercarbon is doubling down on a startup that is racing to bring solar modules to rooftops in India. SolarSquare said on Thursday it has raised $13 million in a Series A funding round led by Lowercarbon and Elevation Capital, just months after securing its seed financing. Existing backers Good Capital, Rainmatter, Better Capital … Read more
Nadia Boulanger
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