Spotify testing Web3 wallets integration

Music streaming platform Spotify expands its Web3 efforts by testing token-enabled playlists in several key markets.  Overlord, a Web3 gaming ecosystem, announced its partnership with Spotify on Feb. ...

Web3 Startup Aims For Mastercard Purchases Via Ethereum Wallets

Web3 startup Immersve has teamed up with Mastercard to eventually allow New Zealand and Australia-based customers to make purchases directly from their Ethereum crypto wallets. Using the upcoming Imme...

Web3 a ‘Golden Opportunity’ for Hong Kong: Finance Secretary

Hong Kong will form a task force bringing together policymakers, regulators, and crypto industry players to set the agenda for its Web3 ambitions, a senior government minister has said. As part of a b...

Gate.io to launch in Hong Kong as government invests $6.4m in web3

Crypto exchange Gate.io has announced its plans to launch in Hong Kong following the government’s cash injection of HKD 50 million ($6.4 million) into web3 under the city’s 2023-24 budget. On Feb. 22,...

Ubisoft Continues Web3 Push With Rabbids NFTs in The Sandbox

Ubisoft was the first major video game publisher to release in-game NFT items with Ghost Recon Breakpoint in December 2021—and while the reception was decidedly mixed, the firm has continued to make m...

Maison Hennessy Announces The Launch Of Web3 Platform H3nsy

New York, United States, 23rd February, 2023, Chainwire Following exciting Maison Hennessy Web3 projects last year, including its first NFT-connected bottle and launch of Cafe 11 social club in partne...

Gate.io to enter Hong Kong following city’s $6.4M budget allocation to Web3

Cryptocurrency exchange Gate.io is gearing up to launch a presence in Hong Kong following the local government’s planned 50 million Hong Kong dollar ($6.4 million) cash injection into Web3 under the c...

Google joins forces with Tezos for web3 solutions development

Tezos Foundation and Google Cloud have inked a partnership deal to make it easier for corporations and startups to build Web3 applications on the Tezos blockchain.  In another significant event for th...

Web3 Domain Alliance Announces New Members to Protect User-Owned Digital Identities

[PRESS RELEASE – San Francisco, United States, 22nd February 2023] Unstoppable Domains commits to not assert against members of the Alliance its patents that are necessary to adopt the Alliance’s inte...

Mastercard Partners Web3 Payment Protocol Immersve to Allow Crypto Payments via USDC

There is no need for Mastercard users to rely on a third party to make a direct crypto payment, they can just use their existing Web3 wallets and private keys to approve payments. Meanwhile, Immersve ...

Coinbase unveils its Ethereum Layer 2 network that won’t have a token

Coinbase is officially jumping into the Layer 2 game. The crypto exchange giant unveiled Base, a testnet version of its new Ethereum Layer 2 network, at ETHDenver. Modeled on Ethereum’s Go...

Web3 game Worldwide Webb raises $10 million from Pantera Capital

Crypto investment firm Pantera Capital invested $10 million in Worldwide Webb, a web3 massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), for its Series A round.  Previously bootstrapped, t...

Beldex Raises 25 M From Web3 Investor DWF Labs

Mahe, Seychelles (Feb 23, 2023) Beldex, a leading privacy-based crypto ecosystem has partnered with DWF Labs, a prominent digital asset market maker and multi-stage Web3 investment firm. DWF supports ...

#WBSDubai to Create Global Business Opportunities for Web3 Innovators

The world’s longest-running blockchain summit series returns to Dubai again in March 2023. The two-day event is a must-attend for Web3 business owners, startups, investors, and enterprise stakeholders...

How Blockchain and Web3 are Revolutionizing Corporate Culture

Blockchain and Web3 technologies are transforming the way businesses operate, enabling more efficient processes, improved transparency, and a more inclusive work culture. Decentralized technologies ar...

Tencent Cloud Partners With Key Crypto Platforms To Boost Web3 Adoption

10 hours ago | 2 mins read Blockchain News Tencent Cloud will be releasing Tencent Cloud Metaverse-in-a-Box products. The cloud subsidiary and Web3 infrastructure provider Ankr entered into an MoU. Th...

Tencent Cloud Dives Deeper into Web3 with New Partnerships

Tencent Cloud announced strategic collaborations with prominent companies in the crypto industry namely – Ankr, Avalanche, Scroll, and Sui – to support the development of the Web3 ecosystem. According...

Tencent Cloud Announces New Web3 Initiatives

Could China’s sentiment around crypto be a turning tide? A move from Tencent Cloud this week could certainly suggest so. An unexpected investment in web3-related tools will hit the market from Tencent...

Indian web3 gaming studio Kratos raises seed round at $150M valuation, acquires IndiGG

Kratos Studios, a web3 gaming startup based in India, reached a valuation of $150 million in a seed funding round of $20 million. Accel led the round, and other investors included Prosus Venture...

Tencent Cloud enters Web3, strikes deals with Avalanche, Ankr

Tencent Holdings’ cloud service provider, Tencent Cloud, has announced its interest and entry into web3. Tencent Cloud enters web3 Tencent Cloud, a global cloud service provider of China’s leading int...

The Tezos Foundation Teams Up with Google Cloud to Accelerate Web3 Development for Corporations and Start-ups on the Tezos Blockchain

Google Cloud will become a validator on Tezos BERN, Switzerland–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The Tezos Foundation, which promotes the Tezos blockchain protocol’s adoption and development, announced today that it i...

Tencent Partners With Ankr, Avalanche, Scroll, Sui For Web3 Development

Tencent Cloud, a subsidiary of technology company Tencent, announces to actively support Web3 developments and contribute to the sustainable development of the global Web3 community. The cloud service...

Dapper Labs’ NBA Top Shot Moments NFTs are securities, federal judge rules

Legal • February 22, 2023, 1:26PM EST NBA Top Shot Moments NFTs meet the requirements to be considered a security, a federal judge said in a court filing on Wednesday, giving the green light to a clas...

Web3 Domain Alliance Announces New Members to Protect User-Owned…

San Francisco, United States, 22nd February, 2023, Chainwire Unstoppable Domains commits to not assert against members of the Alliance its patents that are necessary to adopt the Alliance’s interopera...

Tencent adds to its host of Web3 offerings

Ad Tencent, the Chinese multinational conglomerate headquartered in Shenzhen and owner of the popular everything app WeChat, hosted an event last week at the Fullerton Hotel in Singapore meant to draw...

The surprising ways in which Web3 is transforming the consumer economy

Web3 can do a lot of things. Removing intermediaries; bridging the gap between physical and digital; bringing artists and fans closer together; supporting player-centric and user-owned economies. You ...

Ankr and OKX Wallet Announce Partnership to Streamline Access to Web3 Ecosystem

[PRESS RELEASE – Please Read Disclaimer – February 22, 2023] Ankr, a leading decentralized Web3 infrastructure provider that helps developers, decentralized applications, and stakers interact easily w...

Mastercard to allow crypto payments in Web3 via USDC settlements

A partnership between Web3 payment protocol Immersve and payments giant Mastercard will allow users to make crypto payments on digital, physical and the metaverse worlds. Once the transaction is succe...

Web3 database developer Polybase raises $2 million in pre-seed funding

Deals • February 22, 2023, 9:01AM EST Published 30 minutes earlier on Polybase, a crypto startup developing a privacy-focused decentralized database, raised $2 million in a pre-seed funding round. ...

EtherMail and Blockchain Founders Group to Enable Web3 Comms for Startup Portfolio Projects

[PRESS RELEASE – Neustadt an der Weinstraße, Germany, 22 February 2023] EtherMail, the first Web3 Email Solution setting the standard for anonymous and encrypted wallet-to-wallet communication, has to...

Blocto’s Web3 cross-chain wallet closes Series A investing round at $80 million valuation

Blocto, the multichain Web3 ecosystem and cross-chain wallet announced on February 22 that it has successfully finished its Series A fundraising round at an $80 million valuation. The ecosystem aims t...

A16z backed Bitski launches digital currency wallet

Web3 • February 22, 2023, 8:00AM EST Bitski today rolls out a new wallet targeting crypto natives and newcomers alike.  Backed by major investors such as A16z, Galaxy Digital and Kindred Venture...