Blockchain news headlines
Because of blockchain technology’s foundational importance in Web3 and recent tech generally, November 2021’s blockchain headlines touched on fields including nonfungible tokens, voting, gaming, music and – of course – the metaverse.
Items covered included: blockchain in journalism and media publishing; film-maker Quentin Tarantino’s foray into NFTs; Binance and blockchain-based identity and qualifications management; blockchain-based gaming earnings in South Korea; Cool Points Club’s use of blockchain and NFTs in the Islands of Cool climate change project; and more.
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Cool Points Club / Re-imagining climate action with blockchain
- ICYMI: Fox media giant to double down on investments in blockchain by adding more NFTs and digital collectibles for shows and franchises
- ICYMI: Reddit co-founder to partner Solana Foundation to invest $100M in building social media projects on the Solana blockchain
- Why publishers should start experimenting with blockchain: A snapshot of insights from the recent ‘Exploring Blockchain’s Potential to Transform Media’ report
- So, what exactly is Web3, and what is it made of?
- Avocado Guild blockchain-based play-to-earn firm raises $18M Series A in part via Animoca Brands, with 7K-member scholarship program mainly primarily in the Philippines and Indonesia
- Online now: DappRadar Blockchain Behavior Report: ‘Interest in the metaverse and play-to-earn booming in Asia’
- Financial Times takes a look at the economics of the play-to-earn space: “They could have 50BN [users] but if the growth line is flat then income is not being generated”
- ICYMI: Quentin Tarantino to offer 7 uncut scenes from Pulp Fiction as NFTs for auction on OpenSea, delivered using privacy-focused Secret Network blockchain ecosystem
McKinsey & Co: The State of Fashion in 2022 (pdf)
- India: FreeTON DeFi Alliance blockchain ecosystem partners Kerala Blockchain Academy and Blockchain Centre India for Next Top TON Startup Hackathon – entries close Dec 6th
- Taiwan: A brief look at day 2 of the recent 2021 US Taiwan High-Tech Forum, touching on blockchain’s many use cases
- Sri Lanka Blockchain Summit set for November 19-30, looking at all things DLT and cryptocurrency related
- Singapore leg of World Blockchain Summit set for February 24-25 2022, bringing together all things crypto, defi and NFT
- Asia’s tech scene: Taipei Startup Festival, upcoming Singapore blockchain summit, Entrepreneur First’s Web3 platform, Korean blockchain gaming & in-game crypto, Pakistan’s startup scene…
- Taiwan’s DeCloak and TuringCert take 2nd and 3rd place wins in Draper Accelerator’s Fundamentals of Entrepreneurship Program Demo Day
- China’s Binance Smart Chain invests in Project Galaxy, blockchain platform focusing on verified credentials to prevent false identities and qualifications in education and employment
Samsung 837X Metaverse Project
- Blockchain Association Singapore and China’s AntChain ink MOUs around collaboration, blockchain adoption and promotion in Singapore, China and across ASEAN
- Asia’s tech news, issue 110: Blockchain in India, Baidu’s metaverse moves, Bangladesh’s startups, entrepreneur wellness in Australia, crypto in Thailand…
- Hong Kong’s Animoca Brands NFT and blockchain firm partners K-Pop talent agency to issue NFTs based on songs, albums, portraits and avatars
- South Korea: Wemade blockchain gaming firm hits market capitalization of $5BN since launch of MIR4, crypto-earning massively-multiplayer online role-playing game
- ICYMI: Entrepreneur First organisation launches Entrepreneur First Web3, a blockchain-based company-building platform aiming to attract and aid new founders in the web3 space
- ICYMI: A look at Centaurify, music-tech using NFTs and blockchain to help artists monetize the ticket resale market whilst eliminating ticket fraud
- Australia: NSW gov’t partners Microsoft and others to focus on apartment building defects using blockchain and AI to secure and record provenance details
Islands of Cool / Climate change, blockchain & NFTs
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