Startups

The Trescon World Blockchain Summit concluded in Dubai to discuss blockchain and cryptocurrency. Among prominent speakers from the crypto sector, David Gan, the founder and General Partner of Op Crypto, revealed some plans about their projects and how his company helps startups. In Dubai, David Gan represents Op Crypto, a newly-established VC fund based in…

– CV VC invests in blockchain start-ups across Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. – It recently launched a Dubai incubation program, offering firms up to $125,000. – Its CIO and Dubai managing partner spoke to Insider about the fund’s expansion plans. For some industry insiders, a second ‘crypto valley’ – the major blockchain hub…

Sorare, a sports NFT platform, raised a Series B round of $680 million at a $4.3 billion valuation. The financing by SoftBank has become the biggest Series B round in Europe. Launched in late 2019 as an alternative to traditional fantasy sports games, Sorare minted football player cards as NFTs. Users can build a weekly…

The Sharjah Research Technology and Innovation Park (SRTIP) issued its third Distributed Ledger Technologies license (DLT) to ZelaaPayAE, which works to advance tokenization, promotes non-fungible tokens (NFTs), and develops payments infrastructures and various blockchain applications. ZelaaPayAE CEO, Mr. Sahil Arora said in a press release: “We chose to set up at SRTIP because of their…

On Friday, Cardano’s official commercial arm EMURGO announced Astarter, a joint venture with China-based technology firm BlockChain4A, to build decentralized financial (DeFi) services infrastructure on Cardano blockchain protocol. The joint venture will combine EMURGO’s technical expertise of Cardano’s founding entities, coupled with Blockchain4A’s experience in DeFi technical infrastructure development. After Cardano’s Alonzo hard fork successfully…

14-year-old Ishaan Thakur and his sister, 9-year-old Aanya, have set up a lucrative mining operation. Starting with a single computer in a room desk, it is now an entire business that has a rented home and air-conditioned data center in Dallas, Texas. Monthly the two siblings earn over $30,000 mining Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. The…