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Quick Take

• Platforms have emerged that make it easy for artists, musicians, and other creators to issue crypto-tokens specifically designed for use by their community of fans.  
• Now creators are learning about the upsides — and downsides — of launching their own currencies.

Quick Take

• Being at the forefront of innovation, NFTs took the market by storm and increasingly gained mindshare among crypto natives as well as the wider public
• Despite the prevalent narrative touting Ethereum as the de-facto ruling NFT blockchain, plenty of burgeoning NFT ecosystems are springing up on other blockchains that are looking to dethrone the incumbent
• This report is part of a new weekly series from The Block Research exploring the most interesting insights in NFTs, crypto gaming, and virtual worlds across several chains

A startup that wants to create a Web 3.0 version of Quora just raised $3.1 million in a new funding round led by a16z.  Launched in May 2021, Mem Protocol is part of the newest wave of entrepreneurs seeking to improve existing social media services with decentralized architectures. To start, the firm will release a […]

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In comments to the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, Hsu advocated for consolidated supervision of crypto firms.

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ConsenSys has raised $200 million from investors including Coinbase, HSBC and Marshall Wace, tipping its valuation to over $3.2 billion.

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The European Central Bank says crypto is subject to speculative bouts of volatility, while calling for stablecoin regulations.

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At Pinata, we like to relate Web3 concepts to everyday objects that people can easily understand.

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Swedish buy now, pay later (BNPL) giant Klarna shows no sign of stopping its acquisition spree, buying out discount browser extension Piggy.

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Constitution DAO has so far raised $11 million in its quest to bid on a very rare print of the U.S. Constitution.

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The crypto world has only just begun digesting the finalized crypto reporting requirements from the Financial Action Task Force, or FATF. The years-long process began in the summer of 2019 when the FATF made public its initial version that called for what it dubbed virtual asset service providers, or VASPs, to undertake an unprecedented degree […]

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