This Week in DAOs + Web3 - Nov 30, 2023
A roundup of the most exciting developments in DAOs and web3.
Highlights
🍿 Movie Night - The second installment of The Rise of Blus, an animated web3 movie funded by Nouns DAO, has been released.
💳 Fraud Shield - Mastercard announced a partnership with AI-based financial crime and risk management firm Feedzai to boost its ability to detect and prevent fraud routed through cryptocurrency exchanges.
🌐 DIN of Progress - Infura, a web3 infrastructure firm from Consensys, will partner with 18 internet firms, including Microsoft and Tencent, to launch a Decentralized Infrastructure Network.
🏒 Breakaway - The National Hockey League is embracing “digital collectibles” two years after several other major sports leagues aped into the NFT trend.
🦎 Native Merge - Crypto data aggregator CoinGecko made its first acquisition, and will expand its data offering, by purchasing NFT data infrastructure company Zash.
World Wide Web3
🪙 Trading Tokens - Proprietary trading system operator Osaka Digital Exchange will kickstart the trading of digital securities in Japan.
🇰🇷 Problem Solver - Bank of Korea will involve 100,000 citizens in its central bank digital currency pilot, which it hopes can solve issues with government grant systems.
🇨🇭 Beyond Neutral - MyLugano, the payments app of the Swiss city of Lugano, has integrated support for Polygon as part of the municipality’s broader mission to embrace blockchain technology and cryptocurrency.
🇵🇭 PhBonds - The Philippines Bureau of the Treasury will offer 10 billion pesos ($179M) in one-year tokenized treasury bonds for the first time.
🎓 Web3 Edu - Emurgo’s partnership with the Institute of Blockchain Singapore aims to expand its web3 education offerings and credential new blockchain professionals.
💂 Crown Tokens - UK investment funds have received the green light for tokenization, with the country’s government keen to leverage blockchain technology.
Show Me the Money
💻 Infra - Privy, which helps established companies build blockchain-based tools for their operations, has raised $18M in Series A, led by Paradigm.
💲 DEX - Uniswap-based DeFi protocol Panoptic has raised a $7M seed round led by Greenfield Capital to develop its perpetual options decentralized exchange platform.
🕸️ Interoperability - Union Labs raised a $4M seed round led by Galileo to build a fully trustless bridge connecting appchains, layer 1, and layer 2 networks.
👩🏫 Decentralized Education - Binance Labs has invested $3.15M in Open Campus, a community-led web3 education platform and infrastructure solution that is tokenizing educational content by enabling creators to monetize their publications.
Watch, Listen, Learn
🧭 CosmWasm - In Navigating the Cosmos from the Crypto Sapiens podcast, host Rachel Rose speaks with Avril DuThiel about Neutron’s role as a web3 cross-chain contracting platform - its mission, challenges, and contributions to the DeFi space.
☀️ Web3 Nonprofit - In The Solar Foundation, the Crypto Altruism podcast’s Drew Simon speaks with Coleen Chase and Jon Ruth of The Solar Foundation about funding off-grid solar for underserved communities and the blockchain’s ability to enable decentralized clean energy as a public good.
Coming Up in DAOs and Web3
🍻 December 4-5: Next Block Expo Berlin
🕉️ December 4-10: India Blockchain Week Bangalore
🪔 December 4-10: Web3 Carnival Bangalore
🇹🇼 December 11-16: Taipei Blockchain Week
🦓 February 14-15: Africa Tech Summit Nairobi
🏔️ February 23-March 3: ETH Denver
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