Web3

A leading Web3 company is going public via SPAC merger. Here are the details on the merger between W3BCLOUD and Social Leverage Acquisition Corp I. The SPAC Deal: Social Leverage Corp I (NYSE: SLAC) announced it is acquiring W3BCLOUD, a leading storage and infrastructure provider for the Web3...

Decentralized, independent and anonymous user-owned identities will be a part of the Web3 stack, but only if we stay conscious of the pitfalls. Despite a few hopeful signs for those looking for spring, crypto winter remains. Pundits and analysts addressing the market woes often point out the...

EthCC 5, an Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) community conference, took place at the Maison de la Mutualité in Paris this past week, and it did not disappoint. The largest Ethereum meetup in Europe brought in some big-time speakers such as Vitalik Buterin, Stani Kulechov and Jordi...

Harsh Rajat, the co-founder of Ethereum Push Notification Service (EPNS), sat down with Benzinga last week at the Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) community conference in Paris. Rajat discussed the importance of integrating push notifications, not just into Ethereum, but Web3 in general. His project,...

Benzinga was given a chance to talk about Gitcoin's impact with its founder, Kevin Owocki, following his talk at EthCC 5, July 19-21, in Paris. What Happened: This came after the most recent Gitcoin fundraising round closed raising just over $5.1 million. Gitcoin, the largest...

Decentralized Web3 protocol Pocket Network (CRYPTO: POKT) announced on Tuesday its partnership with open source liquidity market and lending platform Aave, enabling it to utilize Pocket’s distributed network of more than 44,000 nodes to access on-chain data from multiple blockchains...

Coinbase Global Inc (NASDAQ: COIN) now offers support for Ethereum Name Service (ENS) Domains on its application. What Happened: Popular on Twitter Inc (NYSE: TWTR), ENS names use human-readable addresses to replace the 64-digit string of letters and digits, making it simple for users to...

Gitcoin has raised and donated more than $5 million as part of its Grants Round 14. What Happened: Gitcoin, the world’s longest-running and biggest Web3 crowdfunding platform, leveraged its flagship technology, quadratic funding, to raise more than $5 million to go towards...

There are only 999 three-digit Ethereum Name Services domains available. While all have sold out and have high market resale value, investors can now own a piece of the highly coveted three-digit club as fractional shares. What Happened: Debuting on alternative investing site Rally on Friday, July...

Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao ("CZ") sent a tweet on July 11 alarming the Twitter Inc (NYSE: TWTR) community of a potential exploit on Uniswap (CRYPTO: UNI). What Happened: Uniswap is among the original DeFi applications on Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH). The smart contracts that comprise...

A company that stands at the intersection between sports and crypto bought a football club with a plan to grow the team and brand, as well as allow holders of an NFT to share their input in the team’s future. About WAGMI United: Co-founded by Preston Johnson and Eben Smith, WAGMI United is...

With a 25-year history as an alternative browser, Opera continues to innovate with an integrated crypto wallet and IPFS integration. One of the challenges and delights of writing about the Web3 space is that you will get a different definition of Web3 every time you ask. It's an...

Polygon (CRYPTO: MATIC) is partnering with tech company Nothing to integrate web3 into their smartphones. What Happened: Nothing is working with Polygon to present NFTs on the Nothing Phone (1), which is set to be released on July 12. “Nothing Community Dots” is the NFT...

Fantom (CRYPTO: FTM) announced Wednesday that Chainlink (CRYPTO: LINK) Keepers and Chainlink VRF (Verifiable Random Function) are live on the Fantom Mainnet. What Happened: To further enhance the functionality and security of decentralized applications on Fantom, Chainlink Keepers and Chainlink VRF...

ZenGo announced a new feature called ClearSign, protecting users from losing their crypto and NFTs when signing risky smart contract transactions. The development comes as the keyless crypto wallet looks to better protect users from malicious phishing scams, untrustworthy decentralized...