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Collective NFT ownership protocol Fractional raises $20M and rebrands as Tessera
Fractional, a protocol that allows the collective ownership of nonfungible tokens, announced Wednesday that it’s rebranding as Tessera, and also revealed that it raised $20 million in early-stage funding led by Paradigm. The Series A funding was raised earlier this summer and included investments from Focus Labs, Uniswap Labs Ventures, eGirl Capital, Yunt Capital and over 50 ...
CircleCI launches drag-and-drop configuration editor for DevOps workflows
DevOps platform provider Circle Internet Services Inc. today introduced a new drag-and-drop configuration tool called the Visual Configuration Editor for developers aimed at making it much easier for software engineering teams to orchestrate their workflows visually. The Visual Configuration Editor is an open-source drag-and-drop node-based graphical editor. It’s designed to allow software engineers to lay ...
CoinFund invests in Web3 with $300M early-stage venture fund
Blockchain and crypto-focused investment firm CoinFund today announced its new $300 million early-stage Web3 venture fund, CoinFund Ventures I. The new fund was backed by a combination of institutional investors, family offices and crypto company founders, the company said. It would be aimed at complementing the firm’s well-established seed-stage investment program by providing early-stage funds ...
Google researchers demo robots that can understand what people want
Researchers at Google LLC have devised a new way for robots to understand what people want by teaching them how language fits with the real world. People already interact daily speaking naturally with chatbots on their phones to do internet searches, set alarms and even order pizzas. But what if you could call to your Roomba and ...
Twilio hackers exposed 1,900 Signal users in phishing attack
The hackers that breached the cloud communications company Twilio Inc. earlier this month may have exposed the phone numbers of 1,900 users of the encrypted messaging app Signal, the company said today – but that’s about all that the hackers had access to. Signal assured users that hackers had no access to users’ message history, contact ...
Google officially releases Android 13 to Pixel devices
Google LLC is officially rolling out Android 13 today and pushed the source code into the Android Open Source Project for developers. The new mobile operating system release is replete with new features and apps that Google’s Android team has been developing for the past months. They’re aimed at user privacy and security, superior developer ...
Galaxy Digital backs out of $1.2B acquisition deal for crypto wallet provider BitGo
Galaxy Digital Holdings Ltd. today announced that it’s terminating a $1.2 billion deal to acquire enterprise cryptocurrency wallet startup BitGo Inc. The digital asset merchant bank said it ended the deal after BitGo failed to “deliver audited financial statements for 2021” in compliance with the requirements of the acquisition agreement that had been inked in ...
Alleged Tornado Cash dev arrested in Netherlands, more arrests ‘not ruled out’
A 29-year-old man has been arrested by Dutch police in connection to the Tornado Cash cryptocurrency mixing service suspected of “involvement in concealing financial flows” and “facilitating money laundering.” The Dutch Fiscal Information and Investigation Service, or FIOD, described the man as a “developer” in a statement published today after his apprehension in Amsterdam on ...
Coinbase’s staking products and listings under scrutiny by SEC
Major cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase Inc. confirmed that the United States Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating some of its products, including staking, which allows holders to earn interest by holding certain digital assets. The company revealed the information in its quarterly report on Tuesday stating that it had received subpoenas from the SEC for documents ...
Superblocks nabs $37M for custom enterprise internal tool development
Superblocks, the newly launched startup that provides a platform to create bespoke internal apps and workflows for companies, said today it has raised $37 million in funding to change how businesses build and maintain their own internal tools. Kleiner Perkins, Greenoaks, Spark and Meritech led the funding round. Additional investment came from a number of ...