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Nonfungible token tools company Center today announced that it has raised $11 million in a seed round led by Thrive Capital and Founders Fund to build a search product that will index NFTs across multiple blockchains. The company believes that it can …
Retool raises $45M at $3.2B valuation for low-code app development
Low-code enterprise app builder startup Retool Inc. today announced that it has raised $45 million in new funding at a $3.2 billion valuation to continue its journey to “retool” the way that businesses build bespoke internal-facing software. The fundraise is what the …
Trustless Media raises $3.25M for tokenized Web3 TV productions
Trustless Media, a Web3 media company that seeks to use nonfungible tokens for television productions, today announced it has raised $3.25 million in a seed funding round led by crypto billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried’s Alameda Research. Other big names in the Web3 industry …
Web3 digital identity startup Unstoppable Domains raises $65M at $1B valuation
Unstoppable Domains Inc., a platform for user-controlled digital identity using Web3 technology, announced today it has raised $65 million in new funding led by Pantera Capital at a $1 billion valuation. Other investors that joined in the Series A funding round included …
Google unveils creativity and productivity makeover for Chromebooks
Google LLC said today that it will be rolling out new features and apps for its Chromebooks over the next few months that will make them even easier to create and work on. Chromebooks are Google’s low-cost alternative to traditional laptops powered …
Report: SEC investigating Coinbase over cryptocurrency listings
Major cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase Inc. is under investigation by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission related to digital assets listed on the exchange that the agency alleges should have been registered as securities. Bloomberg reported today that three people familiar with the …
Aptos Labs secures $150M led by FTX Ventures and Jump Crypto
Aptos Labs, the blockchain startup formed by former employees who worked on Meta Platform Inc.’s ill-fated payment system Diem, today announced that it has raised $150 million in new funding led by FTX Ventures and Jump Crypto. The Series A funding round …
Voyager Digital calls FTX bailout offer harmful ‘low-ball bid’
Major crypto brokerage firm Voyager Digital Ltd. said on Sunday that a joint offer from crypto exchange FTX US and Alameda Ventures, both owned by crypto billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried, set to rescue the firm from insolvency is a harmful “low-ball bid” that …
Meta engineers join tech industry efforts in calling for no more leap seconds
Most people are aware of leap days, the way that the astronomical calendar stays in tune with the seasonal cycle, but what about leap seconds? The leap second was introduced in 1972 as a way to adjust worldwide clocks to keep them …
Blameless appoints former New Relic CTO Jim Gochee as new CEO
Site reliability engineering platform Blameless Inc. today announced that it’s hiring Jim Gochee as chief executive, and its current co-founder and CEO Lyon Wong will take a new role as executive chairman. Wong founded Blameless in 2017 and led the company as …