👋🏼 In our rapidly evolving digital world, industry giants, and even governments, are embracing the web3 revolution. This week, heavyweights like Sony, Microsoft, Salesforce, and Time are making their mark in this new realm, pushing blockchain technology to become more relevant and useful than ever. What took you so long?
Highlights
🚀 Blockchain Beyond Finance - Blockchain and other distributed ledger technologies are gaining traction in a diverse range of industries beyond decentralized finance (DeFi) and the metaverse, according to Cointelegraph Research. The report showcases blockchain applications in various areas, including data management, cloud storage, supply chain management, smart sensors, carbon credits, DAOs, digital identities, and more.
📈 Granting DLT Growth - DLT Science Foundation (DSF) is calling for grant proposals, offering up to $5M to eligible individuals and organizations to foster education, research, innovation, and adoption of distributed ledger technology (DLT).
💶 Europe’s Digital Unification - The European Parliament is entering inter-institutional negotiations for the European Digital Identity, an identity system intended to establish the legal framework for national digital wallets that can interoperate across the EU. With this system, citizens will be able to access all their important documents, ranging from birth certificates to driving licenses.
🎮 Achievement Unlocked: NFTs - Sony Interactive Entertainment has filed a patent revealing the company’s plans to develop a more robust framework for non-fungible-tokens (NFTs) for its video games and consoles. The patent explores the potential of NFTs being utilized and transferred between different video games, enabling players to reap the benefits of these tokens in multiple games.
🔒 Edge Wallet - Microsoft is working on an Ethereum-based web3 wallet for its flagship browser, Edge, that allows users to send and receive digital assets. While the wallet is currently in a limited testing phase, with a user base of over 200 million, Microsoft’s approach of providing a packaged solution within its browser is expected to break technical barriers upon launch.
🌱 Seed Club Sprouts - Web3 startup accelerator program, Seed Club, has launched its venture arm with $25M committed to investing in decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs). Operating as a DAO itself, Seed Club intends to support democratized projects in their earliest stages of development.
🤝 Tokenizing Trust - Customer relationship management (CRM) software behemoth, Salesforce, has partnered with Polygon to co-develop an NFT-based loyalty program. As part of this collaboration, Salesforce will assist its clients in onboarding to Polygon in order to create token-based loyalty programs.
Show Me the Money
💨 Fresh Air - Congratulations to AirDAO on your $25M commitment from GEM Digital. AirDAO is a community-governed layer-1 blockchain and ecosystem of web3 decentralized applications (dApps).
🏦 Currency Consolidation - Congratulations to payments platform Tilia on securing $22M in funding, led by J.P. Morgan Payments and Dunamu. Tilia’s all-in-one platform facilitates processing payments, issuing tokens, managing in-game purchases, and engaging users with earning opportunities.
🕹️ Game Time - In preparation for the EOS network’s upcoming EVM launch, EOS Network Ventures is committing $20M towards the development of EVM compatible applications and gaming products.
Read, Listen, Learn
📄 Hiring in Web3 - In How DAOs could cause the death of the CV, Moshe Lieberman discusses the obsolescence of traditional recruitment methods and how DAOs are leading the way in creating democratic employment opportunities for everyone. Moshe is the founder and CEO of Share.
⏳ TIMEPieces - In NFTs, community-building, and social change art from the Crypto Altruism Podcast, Jason Metz, senior web3 strategist at TIME, discusses how NFTs can help build community, elevate history and culture, and why it’s such a powerful tool for uplifting activists and social change movements.
Deadlines and Events
🥐 March 20-24: Paris Blockchain Week
♀ March 22-24: Women of Blockchain Conference
💻 April 2023: DAO Global Hackathon
🇯🇵 April 1-9: DAO-A-THON, Tokyo
🎓 April 2-4: DAO Harvard
🇭🇰 April 12-15: Web3 Festival, Hong Kong
🗻 April 13: DAO Tokyo
🖲️ April 14-16: ETHGlobal Tokyo (Apply by April 3)
🇰🇷 April 19-21: SeoulBound, A gathering of DAO East & Rest
🇺🇸 April 21–23: Duke University Web3 Conference
🤠 April 26-28: Consensus 2023
🇲🇪 May 19-23: EDCON
🇵🇪 June 8-10: Blockchaincon Latam
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