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Rails, a decentralized crypto exchange, has raised $6.2 million in efforts to fill the void left by FTX after its 2022 collapse, the startup’s co-founder and…
Nigerian fintech Zone raises $8.5M seed round to scale its decentralized payments infrastructure
African financial institutions typically scale their solutions using a combination of local and foreign technology. Appzone is one of the unique local fintech software providers for…
Karma3 Labs raises $4.5 million to improve web3 trust with ratings and recommendations
It’s getting harder to discern which platforms and which people have good intentions online, especially as automated content and anonymous profiles increase. Some Web 2.0 companies…
Reddit Downplays Risks of Developer Backlash, Decentralized Social Media in IPO Filing
Reddit’s long-awaited IPO is coming, it promises to be the biggest social media IPO since Pinterest. But in the company S-1 filing, Reddit is failing to…
When large cloud providers have excess compute capacity, they tend to offload it through programs like AWS and Azure spot snapshots. Any time a server is…
The decentralized social network Farcaster is trying to reach mass adoption through Web 2.0 techniques
The web3 world has long hoped for a blockchain-based consumer application that could reach breakout speed, bringing crypto technology to the masses. Farcaster hopes that will…
Mastodon founder touts Threads federation, says it makes rival X ‘a much more attractive option’
Mastodon founder Eugen Rochko praises Threads’ entry into the decentralized social media space, telling the motion will do Mastodon — the open-source Twitter/X competitor — “a…
Aave Companies Rebrands as Avara and Acquires Crypto Wallet Family to Expand Web3 Reach
Web3-focused software technology company Aave Companies is rebranding to Weightlessits founder Stani Kulechov told TechCrunch exclusively. The parent crypto entity is best known for supporting Aave…