Month: February 2023

Mawari Launches Testnet in Japan Mawari Corp, the leader in cloud rendering and XR streaming, is thrilled to announce that Japanese telecommunications giant KDDI Corporation will join the Mawari Network Testnet in Japan. This GSMA Foundry Project will showcase the world’s first Web3, decentralized XR content delivery platform that scales real-time 3D rendering and streaming […]

• Curio Research (“Curio”) has closed a $2.9 million seed round for its on-chain gaming lab building the next generation of crypto Web3 games. • The round was led by Bain Capital Crypto, with additional participation from TCG Crypto, Formless Capital, Smrti Lab, and Robot Ventures. • Curio’s mission is to fully democratize the gaming […]

• Bakkt announced the discontinuation of its consumer app as of March 16th. • The platform added Ethereum support in March 2021, and offered users to buy and trade cryptocurrency, acquire gift cards, and spend their coins in stores. • The Bakkt Visa debit card will no longer allow for new transactions as of March […]

DataStax Launches Astra Block • DataStax, the real-time AI company, has announced the launch of Astra Block, a new service that enables developers to quickly build and scale Web3 applications using the Ethereum blockchain dataset. • Astra Block allows developers to stream enhanced data from the blockchain in minutes and scale Web3 experiences virtually infinitely […]

• Mastercard is launching a three-day event in partnership with Femme It Forward honoring Hip-Hop’s 50th anniversary and celebrating Black Women entrepreneurship • The event will include an immersive “Small Business City” in Meta Horizon Worlds, a TikTok challenge, the kickoff of a Fearless Fund grant contest and a national ad campaign to help Black […]