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Warner Bros. Discovery has partnered with blockchain company Eluvio to launch tomorrow “The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring” (Extended Version) Web3 Movie Experience, with limited-edition multimedia nonfungible token (NFT) versions of the movie. “The Fellowship of the Ring” NFTs feature a 4K UHD, 3 hours and 48-minute extended copy of the…
This week on The TechCrunch Podcast we talked with Natasha about the Y Combinator Demo Day for the Summer 2022 cohort; the highs, the lows, the new management and whether the accelerator moving to be more in-person-focused is a help or a hindrance to its further-flung participants. Then, ever a crypto-sceptic at heart, I was […]
The Merge is upon us (and other TC news) by Haje Jan Kamps originally published on TechCrunch
Tom Fleetham Contributor Share on Twitter Tom Fleetham is the head of sports and gaming at Zilliqa, where he is helping scale up partnerships in the next phase of its growth. Despite growing interest from Web 2.0 companies, the explosion of web3 into the mainstream, combined with the high complexity of the technology, has caught…
The co-founder and CEO of Solana, Anatoly Yakovenko, had a Steve Jobs moment when he stood in front of an auditorium in New York City and announced the launch of Saga, an Android web3-focused smartphone. “This is something that I fundamentally believe the industry needs to do,” Yakovenko said. “We didn’t see a single crypto…
In the past one decade, a $1 billion jobs market — microwork — has emerged around technologies that split activities into piecemeal tasks to be completed by many people over the internet, mostly using mobile devices. The allure of microwork opportunities has grown to capture the interest of Africa’s youth, who stand to earn up…
Ten game development studios in Africa have come together under one umbrella, the Pan Africa Gaming Group (PAGG), in an effort to unify the continent’s gaming sector, which is currently fragmented. The association is further envisioned to drive the uptake of gaming in the continent, and grow developer talent. The announcement was made today against…