Tagged: dapps

July 22, 2025 @ 8:52 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The blockchain landscape is evolving rapidly, with Layer 2 (L2) solutions and established Layer 1 (L1) blockchains like the XRP Ledger (XRPL) driving unprecedented adoption and innovation. Recent updates from Dune Analytics, a platform for querying and visualizing blockchain data, highlight these trends through comprehensive… Read More

June 18, 2025 @ 7:14 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Web3 still relies on centralized infrastructure to run applications and AI models, creating major challenges for users and developers. Chris Jenkins, Operations Lead at Pocket Network, shared insights with CI about how Web3 can improve dapps and AI products, and how open data frameworks will… Read More

June 8, 2025 @ 4:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Consensys, an Ethereum and web3 software technology company, today announced the acquisition of Web3Auth, a provider of key management and embedded wallet infrastructure for web3 applications. This acquisition will improve MetaMask user experience by “addressing one of the biggest risks in self-custody today: seed phrase… Read More

June 1, 2025 @ 5:14 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The blockchain and decentralized finance (DeFi) landscape continues to evolve, presenting opportunities and challenges for developers and users. Recent analyses from CertiK shed light on critical incidents and emerging technologies shaping the Web3 ecosystem. CertiK unveils three key updates: an incident analysis of the Cork… Read More

May 7, 2025 @ 11:03 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Tether, which claims to be the largest company in the digital assets industry today, announced it has created a native deployment of Tether’s USD₮ on the Kaia blockchain. LINE NEXT Corp., LINE’s venture dedicated to developing and expanding the Web3 ecosystem, and Kaia, a public… Read More

March 3, 2025 @ 1:32 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Coinbase One aims to create the “ultimate” crypto membership – one that has various benefits in the Coinbase app, and also extends to the broader ecosystem. Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN) noted this product will be rolled out fully over the next few days. As explained in a… Read More

January 13, 2025 @ 2:20 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Nansen has recently teamed up with TON Blockchain, which is described as a “high-performance” Layer 1 chain originally developed by Telegram, to deliver advanced on-chain analytics. Nansen confirmed in a blog post their strategic partnership with TON, a high-performance L1 blockchain built for “speed, scalability,”… Read More

January 2, 2025 @ 10:31 am By Omar Faridi  |  

As the year 2024 came to an end, the team at Polygon said it was clear that the past year was a mix of significant progress as well as challenges. The team at Polygon has provided a quick recap of the key developments from the… Read More

December 22, 2024 @ 5:26 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

  If David Johnston believes 2025 will be a pivotal year for smart agents and decentralized AI, it’s a pretty safe bet. Johnston is an open-source contributor to Morpheus, a platform that launches smart agents. He co-founded Bit Angels to invest in Bitcoin startups in… Read More

March 11, 2024 @ 5:18 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Cosmology, the tech suite that enables developers to build Web3 apps in the Cosmos ecosystem, has closed its $5M seed round, co-led by Galileo and Lemniscap with participation from Dispersion, Hashkey, Tuesday Capital, the Osmosis Foundation, Chorus One, Informal Systems, and angels including Kevin Lin,… Read More

February 4, 2024 @ 1:23 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

2024 kicks off in the shadow of the approaching Bitcoin halving, casting a wave of “optimism” across the Web3 industry, according to an update from DappRadar. With on-chain metrics signaling a “positive trend,” the start of the year, despite its highs and lows, sketches an… Read More

February 2, 2024 @ 2:46 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Wirex, a Web3 money app, is pleased to introduce early access to WPay, which is describe as a decentralized payment network, utilizing the capabilities of the Wirex platform. WPay reportedly solves problems “related to intermediaries, custody risks, and slow, expensive settlements.” With WPay, users can… Read More

December 15, 2023 @ 7:56 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Jameson Lopp, co-founder and CTO at Casa, has shared key insights after the widely reported Ledger hack / security breach that appears to be impacting a large number of DeFi platforms and dApps, with some unconfirmed reports indicating major losses of crypto funds. Lopp, who… Read More

October 27, 2023 @ 12:41 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ramp, a financial technology company building payment rails connecting the crypto economy to the global financial system, announced a partnership with Linea, a developer-ready zkEVM rollup for scaling Ethereum dapps. This collaboration combines Linea Network’s blockchain technology “with Ramp Network’s robust global payments infrastructure.” In… Read More

October 21, 2023 @ 2:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Copper.co, one of the industry’s digital asset custodians, is announcing further growth of integrated blockchains with Stacks, a network that enables the creation of decentralized applications (dApps) and smart contracts on top of the Bitcoin blockchain. Stacks reportedly combines “the strength, security, and capital of… Read More

October 20, 2023 @ 6:53 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Sunny Lu, CEO at VeChain, recently shared key insights exclusively with Crowdfund Insider. Recently, Vechain hosted its first Hackathon at Harvard University on the 7th and 8th of October. Following a selection from over 10,000 applicants, the 36-hour coding and collaboration event brought together 200… Read More

October 15, 2023 @ 3:31 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

During the past month, the crypto industry has experienced rapid growth. OKX Ventures has identified several scenarios where significant progress has been made: SocialFi has introduced “remarkable” products. Friend.tech has reportedly “generated over 10,000 ETH in revenue, with a TVL surpassing 30,000 ETH.” Their total… Read More

September 25, 2023 @ 8:57 am By Omar Faridi  |  

MakerDAO co-founder Rune Christensen has submitted a proposal to build the project’s upcoming native chain using Solana’s codebase, which led to Vitalik Buterin selling $580,000 worth of MakerDAO’s MKR token in rebellion. The move may be an indication that ecosystem participants want to explore different… Read More

September 22, 2023 @ 12:40 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Chainlink, the industry-standard Web3 services platform, and Arbitrum, the most widely used layer 2 scaling solution suite for Ethereum dApp development, have announced today the mainnet launch of the Chainlink Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) on Arbitrum One. CCIP provides Web3 developers “with a secure, easy-to-use… Read More

September 9, 2023 @ 4:32 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Socket, an interoperability protocol that allows asset and data transfer across chains for decentralized applications (dapps), announced a $5 million strategic investment from Coinbase Ventures, the venture arm of one of the world’s largest crypto platforms, and Framework Ventures, a crypto-native venture capital firm known… Read More