This Week in DAOs + Web3 - Jun 22, 2023
A roundup of the most exciting developments in DAOs and web3.
Highlights
👟 Fashion + Gaming + Blockchain - Nike has unveiled a collaboration with Fortnite developer Epic Games. The "Airphoria" partnership taps into both the physical and digital world, offering experiences and collectibles in each.
🧸 The Giving DAO - Lucky Friday is introducing Teddy DAO, an NFT collection that donates proceeds to social impact charities through a partnership with global fundraising organization JustGiving.
📚 Web3 Wiki - Ethereum scaling platform Polygon Labs released “The Value Prop”, a compilation of positive global use cases for blockchain technologies.
🐈⬛ Black Cats - German footwear conglomerate Puma launched its 3D metaverse experience called Black Station as an experiential home for exclusive access and product drops for Puma Pass NFT holders.
🤖 Web3 + AI - Blockchain developer platform Alchemy introduced AlchemyAI, a suite of tools aimed at leveraging AI to help web3 developers accelerate development and gain quicker access to on-chain data.
World Wide Web3
🇭🇰 Think Factory - In the last year, over 150 web3 firms have set up operations in Hong Kong’s Cyberport, a digital hub with over 1,900 start-ups and tech companies supported by the government to promote innovation and accelerate digital adoption.
🏦 Test Baht - The Bank of Thailand will launch a retail central bank digital currency (CBDC) pilot project in a regulatory sandbox involving up to 10,000 users and running through August.
⚡ Striking Mexico - Digital payments firm Strike is expanding its Bitcoin Lightning Network-based cross-border payments service to Mexico, the largest market for remittances from the U.S.
🇨🇴 Colombian Exploration - Colombia's central bank and the Ministry for Information and Communications Technologies have partnered with Peersyst and Ripple to explore its CBDC platform using blockchain technology.
Show Me the Money
💸 Digital Platform - Concordia, a multi-chain risk and collateral management protocol for digital assets, raised $4M led by Tribe Capital and Kraken Ventures. Their goal: to make it easier to access and manage cross-chain liquidity and collateral.
🔬 Community Brain Trust - ResearchHub, committed to accelerating scientific research through blockchain technology, raised $5M led by OSS Capital, to build a platform that rewards contributions to an open scientific community.
🤖 Web3 + AI - Salesforce Ventures led a $6M seed round for AI-backed web3 data platform Mnemonic, which provides actionable NFT data and analytics for enterprises and developers.
💰 Web3 Interoperability - Connext has raised $7.5M, from Polychain Capital, Polygon Ventures, and others, and will create the Connext Foundation to finance projects aimed at expanding the firm's scale and supporting community-led initiatives.
🪙 Expansión - Spanish cryptocurrency exchange, Bit2Me, has raised $15M led by Investcorp, to grow its position in Spain and accelerate its expansion in Latin America.
This Summer in DAOs and Web3
🇩🇪 June 28-30: Blockchance, Hamburg
🎎 June 28-30: IVS Crypto, Japan
🇵🇹 July 10-12: BlockDown Festival, Portugal
🗼 July 17-20: ETHCC, Paris
🗻 July 25-26: WebX, Japan
🇭🇷 August 16-18: Metafest, Croatia
🇹🇷 August 21-25: Istanbul Blockchain Week
🇮🇩 August 24-25: Coinfest Asia
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