This Week in DAOs + Web3 - May 11, 2023
A roundup of the most exciting developments in DAOs and web3.
Highlights
🦈 Web3 Shark Tank - Crypto tracking platform CoinMarketCap is partnering with HELLO Labs to enter the reality TV space. Web3 entrepreneurs will pitch their projects to the Killer Whales, a panel of judges comprised of web3 founders, investors, and influencers. Beneficial byproduct: viewers will get a better sense of blockchain technology’s many use cases.
🏛️ Proactive Governance - The White House released the national standards strategy for critical and emerging technologies, which identifies eight technology sectors that will have a significant economic impact in the near future and indicates a desire to be a global leader in areas including artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, and distributed ledger technology (DLT). Is that the the warm embrace of acceptance?
Big Business to the Blockchain
🎟️ Box Office - Sports Illustrated is launching an NFT ticketing platform on the Polygon network that allows event owners, organizers, and promoters to incorporate additional engagement opportunities into tickets, such as highlights, digital collectibles, and special offers.
🖼️ NFT Marketplace - Sotheby's, an early supporter of the NFT format, is expanding its foothold into NFTs with a curated, peer-to-peer marketplace for secondary (pre-owned) NFTs.
🪪 Digital KYC - Deloitte has partnered with BOTlabs to integrate reusable digital credentials for its clients, streamlining and securing the ‘typically inefficient’ verification processes.
🧳 Travel to Web3 - Camino Network is a layer 1 blockchain tailored for the web3 needs of the travel industry with input from a number of industry pioneers and major players, including Lufthansa, Eurowings, TUI, and more. Camino will be operated, maintained, and governed by a DAO. Web3-based travel apps, you have arrived.
🚗 R5 Turbo - Multinational automobile manufacturer Renault launched RACING SHOE5, an NFT collection with twin tangible assets, or vice versa.
💳 Ramping Up - Financial platform Stripe is the latest to launch a user-friendly fiat-to-crypto onramp. Stripe’s product facilitates buying crypto at the precise point of need by US-based consumers interacting with web3 companies.
🧞 Open Sesame - The digital technology and intelligence division of online commerce behemoth Alibaba is partnering with Avalanche and MUA DAO to build Cloudverse, a web3-based launchpad for brands. The end-to-end platform enables businesses to quickly and easily deploy branded metaverses on the blockchain.
Show Me the Money
🪙 Web3 Infrastructure - Tangem has raised $8M, led by Shima Capital, to evolve its self-custodial hardware wallet solutions for secure digital asset management.
🚨 Crypto Investigation - Forensic and cybersecurity startup CAT Labs raised $4.3M in pre-seed funding, led by Castle Island Ventures, Brevan Howard Digital, CMT Digital, and RW3 Ventures. CAT Labs is developing a suite of enterprise-focused cybersecurity tools and offers recovery services for digital assets lost to crypto crimes.
🌏 Immutable History - Hong Kong-based Artifact Labs, which is preserving historical events on the blockchain, raised $3.25M in funding, led by Blue Pool Capital.
Listen + Learn
💡 Top 10 Insights - Words of Wisdom: The Power of Blockchain from the Crypto Altruism Podcast is a compilation of clips from the show’s ten most popular episodes. Tune in to hear the insights and aspirations of pioneering blockchain-based social impact leaders.
🎧 OG Web3 - In Web3 Founders: The Origins - Part II from the Crypto Sapiens Podcast, blockchain founders and pioneers Vikram Aditya, Khori Whittaker, Alex Poon, Chase Chapman, and Henry Lee share their experiences of taking risks in web3 entrepreneurship and technology.
Deadlines and Events
💻 April 17-May 31: WEB3ATHON
🪙 May 10-11: Blockchain Economy Istanbul Summit
🇯🇵 May 17-18: TEAMZ Web3 Summit, Tokyo
🇳🇱 May 19: The Web3 Conference, Amsterdam
🇲🇪 May 19-23: EDCON
🇧🇪 May 23-24: European Web3 Summit 2023
🇵🇱 May 24-25: Next Block Expo
🇩🇪 June 7-8: Blockchance 2023
🇵🇹 June 7-9: Non Fungible Conference, Lisbon
🌐 June 9: Epic Web3 Conference, Lisbon
🇵🇪 June 8-10: Blockchaincon Latam
🇹🇷 August 21-25: Istanbul Blockchain Week
🇮🇩 August 24-25: Coinfest Asia
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