Web 3.0

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Why US Policymakers Should Embrace Web 3
Three words: progress, opportunity and inclusion.
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Stripe Is Hiring a Crypto Team 3 Years After Ending Bitcoin Support
Stripe Is Hiring a Crypto Team 3 Years After Ending Bitcoin Support
Payments company Stripe, whose API supports millions of digital storefronts, has begun assembling a crypto engineering team to chart its future in digital assets. In an indust...
Stripe Is Hiring a Crypto Team 3 Years After Ending Bitcoin Support

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Crypto News Roundup for Oct. 13, 2021
With crypto markets retesting resistance levels on technical charts and a look at a standardized way to sign into the internet to protect your data, CoinDesk’s Markets Daily i...
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Yup’s founders, Nir Kabessa (left) and Vernon Johnson. (Yup)
Dapper Labs Backs $3.5M Raise for Crypto Social Media Startup Yup
Yup, which works a little like Pinterest, is the brainchild of two recent Columbia graduates.
Yup’s founders, Nir Kabessa (left) and Vernon Johnson. (Yup)

Bitcoin Reclaims $1T Market Valuation
Bitcoin Reclaims $1T Market Valuation
Nick Mancini, senior research analyst at Trade the Chain, discusses what he thinks are the catalysts behind bitcoin’s price rally, which has pushed its market capitalization b...
Bitcoin Reclaims $1T Market Valuation

Unstoppable Domains CEO on Bitcoin's Outlook After September Doldrums
Unstoppable Domains CEO on Bitcoin’s Outlook After September Doldrums
Matthew Gould, CEO of blockchain domain name provider Unstoppable Domains, discusses his reading of the trend of September doldrums in the crypto markets and his “still very b...
Unstoppable Domains CEO on Bitcoin's Outlook After September Doldrums

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Web 3 Is Where the Young People Are
The massive Facebook outage caused major disruptions yesterday, but also showed how attention is shifting away from gated, centralized platforms.
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Facebook Outage: Could Crypto Shut Down?
Facebook Outage: Could Crypto Shut Down?
Facebook went down Monday for a little over five hours due to configuration errors, with the damage reportedly costing an estimated $65 million. This comes as the social media...
Facebook Outage: Could Crypto Shut Down?

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What Happens to a Social Token When Its Creator Dies?
Web 3.0 is enabling new forms of economic relationships between creators and fans. But some things may never change.
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Polkadot's Gavin Wood: DeFi Regulation Is 'a Good Thing'
Polkadot’s Gavin Wood: DeFi Regulation Is ‘a Good Thing’
Gavin Wood, CEO of smart contract blockchain Polkadot, which issues its native token DOT, discusses why regulation is good for DeFi, adding it would force projects and platfor...
Polkadot's Gavin Wood: DeFi Regulation Is 'a Good Thing'