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Cryptocurrency exchange Kraken is developing a way for people to use nonfungible tokens as collateral for loans, the exchange’s founder and Chief Executive Jesse Powel told Bloomberg News on Friday in an interview. NFTs are blockchain-based technology that allows people to buy, sell …
NFT-backed loan platform Arcade raises $15M
Arcade, a platform that allows users to use nonfungible tokens as collateral for loans, announced Wednesday that it raised $15 million in new funding to expand its team and platform, which is already in private beta. Investors participating in the Series A …
Space Metaverse raises $7M to build virtual worlds for arts and commerce
Space Metaverse today announced it has raised $7 million in a funding round to develop its metaverse project that allows users to design and their own virtual commerce spaces for gaming, arts, fashion, music and more. The funding round was supported by …
Blockchain interoperability protocol provider Multichain raises $60M in seed funding
Blockchain cross-chain protocol provider Multichain, formerly AnySwap, announced today it has raised $60 million in a seed funding to advance its mission of building “the ultimate router for Web 3.0” decentralized networks. Binance Labs led the financing round. Also participating in the round …
Blockchain infrastructure firm Figment raises $110M at a $1.4B valuation
Blockchain infrastructure provider Figment today announced a $110 million funding round to expand its services for the application layer of Web 3.0 decentralized networks at a $1.4 billion valuation. The Series C round, which follows a $50 million Series B round in …
Apple releases Swift Playgrounds 4 with support for app creation on iPad
Apple Inc. announced Wednesday the official release of Swift Playgrounds 4, the newest version of an app that teaches developers to code, which added support for creating iPad and iPhone apps directly on the iPad without the need for a Mac. Swift …
How the National Cancer Institute is using Google Cloud to support researchers around the globe
The U.S. National Cancer Institute is using Google Cloud to connect researchers all over the world to cancer data sets along with powerful analytical tools to study the data quickly and securely. The NCI provides a cloud-based research commons with its Cloud …
ManageXR raises $4M seed funding to enable enterprise AR/VR device management
ManageXR, a platform for managing virtual and augmented reality devices, today announced it has raised $4 million in seed funding. The San Francisco-based startup said the round, led by Rally Ventures, is aimed at helping small, midsized and enterprise customers facilitate the …
Oppo unveils Air Glass ‘assisted reality’ monocle device
Chinese consumer technology company Oppo today unveiled a new wearable device designed to clip onto glasses called Air Glass. The company describes the device as using “assisted reality” and not augmented reality: Instead of overlaying holographic objects on the user’s vision, it …
Spatial looks to the metaverse and NFTs with $25M in new funding
Spatial Systems Inc., formerly the creator of a virtual reality collaboration platform, said today that it’s dramatically shifting the focus of its company to become the metaverse for cultural events such as nonfungible token exhibitions, conferences and branded experiences. The company also …