NFT
Yakoa raises $4.8M to help detect NFT fraud for platforms and creators
Yakoa, an NFT fraud detection startup, has raised $4.8 million to build tools to fight intellectual property fraud in web3.
FTX and Avalanche co-led $5M round for Joepegs NFT marketplace
NFT marketplace Joepegs raised $5 million in a seed round led by FTX Ventures and the Avalanche Foundation
Yuga Labs’ Nicole Muniz to talk about NFTs and Bored Apes at TC Sessions: Crypto
As the NFT ecosystem continues to waver, superfans and blue-chip holders are still holding on strong. But how can the digital asset sector reignite growth and appeal to new audiences?…
Latin American NFT marketplace Minteo raises $4.3M seed round
The major hype around NFTs may have died down a bit since the crypto subsector took off last year, but that isn’t stopping startups from building and raising capital in…
Meet Immortal Game, a startup that wants to turn chess into a web3 game with NFTs, play-to-earn rewards, quests, a marketplace and more. Online chess has never been so popular…
Featured Article
Y Combinator is doubling down on crypto founders despite market volatility
Crypto founders have heard the saying a thousand times in the past few months — there’s no better time to build than during a downturn. In Y Combinator’s latest cohort, there are 30 crypto startups, up from 25 the batch prior, showing that the accelerator, and the founders it is betting on, believe in the…
LG Electronics launches NFT platform that lets users buy and sell digital artwork
LG Electronics said today it has released its non-fungible token (NFT) platform LG Art Lab, which lets users discover, buy, sell and trade NFTs on LG’s smart TVs. The announcement…
Mining cryptocurrency is no easy task, but neither is finding a co-founder who is savvy and resilient enough to withstand the sector’s volatile nature. Whether you’re mining for a co-founder…
Anthony Hopkins sees NFTs as ‘art in a new format’
Two-time Academy Award-winning actor Sir Anthony Hopkins partnered with NFT digital collectible company Orange Comet to launch his own series, The Eternal Collection.
Pinata, an NFT-focused media distribution platform, has raised a total of $21.5 million in funding, the company exclusively told TechCrunch. This is the only capital the four-year-old company has raised…
Twitch founder Justin Kan: Web3 games don’t need to lure players with profit
Top crypto VCs are constantly touting the potential of video games as one of the most compelling use cases for blockchain technology. Andreessen Horowitz partner Arianna Simpson, for example, who…
Solana co-founder says NFTs have ’50 different use cases’ that can onboard millions this year
New NFT use cases stretch from gaming to music, and Solana co-founder Raj Gokal says he sees enough startup activity focused on those areas to feel optimistic about the digital…
Play now, pay later: Halliday bags $6M seed round led by a16z
Blockchain-based games have seen a surge in popularity, but playing them is getting expensive. Play-to-earn games like StepN require players to purchase an NFT before they can participate, while other…
Imagine paying millions of dollars for a JPEG of a monkey just to have it stolen from your digital wallet. That’s exactly what happened to actor Seth Green, who ended…
FTX CEO leads Trustless Media’s seed round to help build community-owned web3 shows
A new web3-focused production hub, Trustless Media, has launched out of stealth mode as it aims to build an NFT community-owned media company.
Featured Article
Bored Apes founders on their plans for Otherside metaverse
After seemingly pulling off the strangest unicorn success story in tech, the founders of NFT project Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) have an awful lot to prove with their startup Yuga‘s early beta vision of the metaverse, a gaming platform called Otherside. Few entertainment startups have had this level of community pressure riding on their…
NFTs have the potential to become media companies, Rarible co-founder says
As NFTs work to retain mainstream attention, one founder predicts the digital assets sector will pivot in a new direction.
Despite falling NFT sales volume, there’s more underlying strength to the market than you’d think
Bearish sentiment in the crypto markets has trickled down to the NFT subsector.
Featured Article
Nothing’s Phone (1) is official
“They told me it’s the kanji character for ‘love,’” Carl Pei explains, “but I call bullshit on that. I can’t see it.” The Gliph design is — by far — the most striking element of the Phone (1)’s design. It’s a series of 900 LEDs spread out and overlaid with a diffuser to create a…
Reddit is launching a new NFT-based avatar marketplace today that allows you to purchase blockchain-based profile pictures for a fixed rate. The company said that you need not have a…
Daily Crunch: Raba Partnership leads $2.1M seed round for African fintech startup Thepeer
Hello, friends, and welcome to Daily Crunch, bringing you the most important startup, tech and venture capital news in a single package.
Magic Eden raises $130M, hitting unicorn status at $1.6B valuation
NFT marketplace Magic Eden, launched just nine months ago, has raised $130 million in a Series B round co-led by Electric Capital and Greylock Partners, bringing its valuation to $1.6…
The data doesn’t appear to indicate that there is a more attractive way to view NFT activity today. It is, by a number of measuring methods, depressed at the moment.…
This is not an exercise in knocking back a few shots of haterade. Instead, it’s a reminder that consumer demand for products like digital collectibles is fickle and ever-changing.
DOJ case against ex-OpenSea exec could label NFTs as securities, former SEC lawyer says
The case could determine whether NFTs are indeed securities — and if that label really matters for the future of the digital assets.
OnlyFans founder makes crypto debut selling influencer trading cards
OnlyFans founder Tim Stokely is getting into the web3 game with a new NFT startup, Zoop, launching this summer. On Zoop, people can buy, sell, and trade 3D NFT “playing…
Co:Create aims to help NFT projects launch their own cryptocurrencies
NFT powerhouse Yuga Labs, the startup behind the Bored Apes Yacht Club (BAYC) monkey JPEGs, launched its native ApeCoin cryptocurrency in March to much fanfare. Through the launch, the startup…
Polygon among $9.3M investment in Paper to help onboard NFT buyers via email
Paper, a crypto-focused payments processing company launched in February, closed a $7.3 million seed round after a $2 million angel investment for a total of $9.3 million in fresh capital.
Arianee raises $21 million to deliver ownership NFTs with physical luxury goods
Arianee has raised a $21 million Series A round (€20 million) in a round led by Tiger Global. The company issues digital ownership and authenticity certificates on behalf of partner…
It’s been a little over two weeks since Coinbase launched its highly anticipated NFT marketplace for select waitlisted beta users — and digital collectibles trading has been sluggish.
