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San Francisco-based blockchain web services company Alchemy announced a $250 million Series C fundraising round led by Andreessen Horowitz on Thursday, bringing its current valuation to $3.5 billion.This announcement comes hot on the heels of a late April $80 million Series B, which previously valued the startup at $505 million.
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Online employment-oriented platform LinkedIn has reported demand for employees with experience in crypto or blockchain is on the rise across many companies.According to a Wednesday report from LinkedIn editor Devin Banerjee, data from the platform’s Economic Graph team shows job postings in the United States that included terms like “blockchain”
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Crypto adoption scores another win with the Ivy League University of Pennsylvania, but there’s a catch.The Wharton School, one of the premier business schools in the United States, will accept Bitcoin (BTC) and other forms of cryptocurrencies for tuition fees, Bloomberg reports. However, the adoption is limited to its new online blockchain
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Popular play-to-earn blockchain game Alien Worlds has launched its Alien Worlds Missions game on the Binance Smart Chain (BSC), according to a media statement. Fast facts Alien Worlds is a decentralized finance (DeFi), non-fungible token (NFT) metaverse where players compete using unique digital items (NFTs), earn Trilium (TLM), the in-game currency, and travel on
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China’s technology standardization body will issue a national standard for blockchain next year, said an official from the China Electronics Standardization Institute, according to news site Chuanguan.The institute has drafted a standard and is in the process of approving it, said Li Ming, director of the Blockchain Research Office at
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Since the beginning of this week, addresses labeled as “smart money” by blockchain data firm Nansen, started buying up SHIB, according to Daniel Khoo, a research analyst at Nansen. The buying was mostly concentrated in the past seven days, worth about $160 million. Source
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“This round is a major milestone that helps us deliver on our vision of growth in Web 3 through better infrastructure, improved tooling, and greater accessibility across all blockchains,” QuickNode vice president Amol Shah told CryptoX in an email. Source
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The Hedera Governing Council has welcomed Singapore’s oldest bank, DBS Bank, as its newest member, making it the first Southeast Asian lender to join the worldwide Hyperledger organization.DBS Bank, a member of the advisory council on fintech, has joined the blockchain council alongside 39 other major technology, corporate and nonprofit
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It’s no surprise that nonfungible tokens (NFT) have been dominating the crypto market this year. The booming digital asset class generated over $2.5 billion in sales within the first six months of 2021, demonstrating unheard-of financial gains for artists, brands and content creators across the globe. The rise of metaverses has
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Transcript Our newsroom always has its eye on how Blockchain technology can change the world, and today the focus is on voting. Welcome to The Daily Forkast October 26, 2021. I'm Angie Lau, Editor-in-Chief of Forkast.News covering all things blockchain. Well, the Philippines has a huge overseas population, many of whom struggle to
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