Anita Ramaswamy
Reporter, Crypto and Fintech
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Is web3 really the new phase of the internet?
Investors and startup founders are desperately trying to convince us that web3 is the next logical phase of the web. Is it?
RIP to FTX?
We had to talk about the news that rocked the crypto world this week in our Thursday episode: the Binance/FTX deal that never was. To begin, we gave you a rundown of WTF just happened with the beef
Crypto’s crown prince stumbles
Welcome back to Chain Reaction. Last week on the podcast, we talked about trouble brewing for bitcoin miners. This week, we had to tear up our plans to cover pretty much anything else and turn our att
Crypto’s biggest M&A deal, between Binance and FTX, looks unlikely to close
Crypto exchange Binance, the largest in the world by volume, signed a letter of intent Tuesday to purchase its troubled competitor, FTX, in what appears to be a potential bailout of the latter amid a
Troubled crypto exchange FTX investigated by US regulators over customer funds
Crypto trading behemoth FTX fell from grace this week after the exchange experienced a liquidity crunch and agreed to give its rival, Binance, the option to purchase the company’s non-U.S. opera
Binance’s plan to acquire FTX is ‘real-life Game of Thrones’ as crypto winter winds blow
Binance has signed a letter of intent to buy its closest competitor, FTX, making huge waves in the crypto community after the CEOs of the exchanges engaged in a multiday public dispute on Twitter.
Why the CEO of the world’s largest crypto exchange backed Musk’s Twitter buyout
Binance’s CEO and founder Changpeng Zhao made headlines outside his typical wheelhouse of web3 as an investor in Elon Musk’s Twitter buyout. Zhao, who put in $500 million, told an audience
Bitcoin’s future could hinge on mines over matter
Welcome back to Chain Reaction. Last week on the podcast, we talked about Apple’s App Store tax and how it could hinder NFT adoption. This week, we dug up a few stories about bankruptcies brewing in
Web3 infrastructure startup Tenderly takes on Infura, Alchemy with new node offering
Web3 developer tooling startup Tenderly is getting into the node game with a new product it announced today called Web3 Gateway. The product will help web3 developers read, stream and analyze blockcha
Ex-Bain investor launches $30M web3 consumer VC fund as solo female founder
Magdalena “Mags” Kala, a self-described “lifetime degen,” is no stranger to beating the odds. Before she became an investor, she co-founded an all-female blackjack team that so
Troop rallies retail investors to get out the proxy vote
Retail investors entered the stock market in droves over the past couple of years. Much ink has already been spilled analyzing competition between fintech companies such as Robinhood and Public.com to
Ralph Lauren redesigns Polo logo for first time ever in new digital collection with Fortnite
Lauren now follows in the footsteps of Gucci and Balenciaga in blazing a couture path in the digital realm.
OpenSea CEO Devin Finzer discusses staying on top of a turbulent NFT market at TC Sessions: Crypto
The NFT market is worth tens of billions of dollars and saw rapid growth throughout the crypto bull run. NFT exchange OpenSea, led by CEO and co-founder Devin Finzer, emerged as a clear market leader,
I regret to inform you that Elon has something to do with this
Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. We hope that you are in good form this Friday, alive, well and
Apple doesn’t want you trading NFTs on your phone (unless it makes them money)
Apple is no stranger to asserting its dominance. That’s exactly what the tech giant did this week when it announced new, stringent guidelines for NFT transactions in the iOS App Store, marking t
Apple says, ‘NFTs? Yes, fees’
Welcome back to Chain Reaction, TechCrunch's weekly offering for the crypto curious.
Dragonfly, Haun Ventures and Sequoia talk web3 and more at TC Sessions: Crypto
While the overall crypto markets have been in a rough spot lately, web3 venture capitalists have never had more conviction — or more funding at their disposal — to back startups and teams building
Alchemy, Ava Labs and BlockFi break down funding in a bear market at TC Sessions: Crypto
Bears hibernate during the coldest months, but there’s nowhere to hide from a bear market during a crypto winter. As the entire sector faces what looks to be a long stretch of uncertainty, young fou
Staax thinks peer-to-peer payments can onboard a new generation of stock investors
For better or for worse, Robinhood helped inspire a new generation of investors to enter the stock market. Now that investing is cool again, upstarts like Staax, which pitched today at TechCrunch Disr
‘We do our own research’: a16z GP on investing millions in Adam Neumann
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) general partner Chris Dixon shed some light on the firm’s recent investments in controversial WeWork founder Adam Neumann onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2022. Neumann r