This Week in DAOs + Web3 - Mar 8, 2024
A roundup of the most exciting developments in DAOs and web3.
Highlights
🚑 Secure Healthcare - Researchers from Emporia State University (U.S.) and the University of Allahabad (India) have developed a blockchain-powered healthcare network model for medical device monitoring.
🐪 Cultural Hub - The Saudi Arabian Ministry of Culture launched a metaverse dedicated to showcasing and preserving the nation’s cultural heritage.
🪙 Token Assets - Citigroup has teamed up with traditional financial institutions, digital asset companies, and Ava Labs, to complete a proof-of-concept for tokenizing private equity funds.
🎫 Change of Venue - Sports Illustrated is moving Box Office, its NFT ticketing platform, from the Polygon blockchain to Avalanche, making verification easier.
🌌 Wi-Fi Spy - Researchers from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore unveiled an innovative method for tracking human movement in the metaverse.
⚽ Validation - French football giant Paris Saint-Germain is set to deepen its web3 and SportFi involvement by becoming a validator for fan token blockchain Chiliz.
💱 Oracles - Pyth Network, a provider of real-time market data for blockchain applications, will launch price feeds and Pyth benchmarks on open-source, proof-of-stake public ledger Hedera.
💵 Strategic Growth - Japan aims to increase strategic domestic investments into web3 startups by allowing limited partnership firms to acquire and hold crypto assets.
🏦 Stable Growth - BTG Pactual, one of Latin America’s largest banking institutions, has joined Crypto.com to advance cryptocurrency banking within the region.
Show Me the Money
💰 Money Bags - Venture capital firm Hack VC has raised $150M to invest in early-stage web3, cryptocurrency, and AI companies.
🖥️ Builders - Ethereum blockchain layer-2 scaling solution provider, Taiko, raised $15M in a series A led by Lightspeed Faction to create an Ethereum-equivalent ZK rollup.
⛓️ Support - Blockchain infrastructure startup Initia has secured $7.5M, co-led by Delphi Ventures and Hack VC, to build a network of interwoven rollups.
🤖 DeAI - Talus Network, integrating Artificial Intelligence with smart contracts, closed a $3M funding round, led by Polychain Capital, to decentralize and democratize on-chain AI.
Listen + Learn
🕹️ gAmIng - In AI in Gaming from Cointelegraph’s The Agenda Podcast, Atlas CEO Ben James discusses how AI is revolutionizing our lives and shares advantages and concerns around AI in gaming, web3, and more.
🩱 Phygital Fashion - In the Web3 Warriors podcast, Shreya Bhan, NFT artist and Founder of Brushbound, looks at the state of web3 fashion and how blockchain technology is creating much-needed innovation in the industry.
💣 Impact - In Public Goods Funding from the Crypto Sapiens podcast, James Kiernan, VP of Abundance and head of community at Octant, discusses the importance of empowering users, community governance, and the public funding ecosystem.
Coming Up in DAOs and Web3
🗽 Apr 3-5: NFT NYC
🐉 Apr 4-9: Hong Kong Web3 Festival
🗼 Apr 8-12: Paris Blockchain Week
🌴 Apr 15-16: Blockchain Life 2024, Dubai
🏜️ Apr 20-21: Arts DAO Fest 2.0, Dubai
🇦🇪 Apr 20-21: Blockchain Universe Summit, Dubai
🥨 May 15-16: Conf3rence, Dortmund
🇭🇷 May 27-30: BlockSplit, Split, Croatia
🌵 May 29-31: Consensus, Austin
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