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Google Cloud Exec on Future of Web3: We're 'Committed to the Space'

Google Cloud and OnFinality are collaborating with the aim to help Web3 developers build and scale decentralized applications on the Polkadot network. Google Cloud global head of Web3 strategy James Tromans discusses the announcement, along with insights into Google's future Web3 ambitions.

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Finance

Zodia Custody Looks to Drive Institutional Access to Polkadot Ecosystem

The company plans to provide custody for the Polkadot ecosystem, offering digital asset storage services for financial institutions

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Videos

XRP, XLM Climb as Bitcoin Holds Above $30K

XRP registered its best performance since August 2021 last week, seeing a 60% surge following Ripple's partial win in its legal battle against the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commissioner (SEC). StockCharts.com Senior Technical Analyst Julius de Kempenaer discusses the rally, bitcoin price analysis, and why he's watching Polkadot (DOT).

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Tech

Blockchain Project Interlay Wants its New Platform to Become a ‘One-Stop-Shop for Bitcoin DeFi’

“We've only seen the tip of the iceberg with bitcoin DeFi today,” said Interlay CEO and Co-founder Alexei Zamyatin in an exclusive interview with CoinDesk.

Interlay founders Dominik Harz (left) and Alexei Zamyatin (right) (Interlay)

Consensus Magazine

Consensus Web3athon 2023 Reveals Its Winners

Six projects building on five blockchain protocols will take home over $200,000 in grants to help fund development.

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Web3

Web3 Charity Teddy DAO is Raising Money Through Daily NFT Auctions

Teaming up with fundraising platform JustGiving, Teddy DAO will hold a daily auction of teddy bear NFTs, allowing the buyer to donate proceeds to a charity of their choosing.

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Tech

Polkadot Revamps Governance System, Removes ‘First Class Citizen’ Voting Groups

The new Polkadot OpenGov system allows multiple voting tracks to take place simultaneously without bottlenecks.

The Polkadot pavilion on the Promenade at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland (Sandali Handagama/CoinDesk)

Tech

Blockchain Staking Provider Chorus One Expands to Peer-to-Peer Network Urbit

Chorus One's bet on Urbit's future growth is described by executives as a natural extension of the company's staking services on blockchains including Ethereum, Solana, Cosmos and Polkadot.

Josh Lehman, executive director, Urbit Foundation, spoke at Consensus 2023 in Austin, Texas, in April. (Shutterstock/CoinDesk)

Web3

Social Media App MeWe to Bring Frequency Blockchain's Self-Sovereign Identity to Its 20M Users

The Frequency blockchain aims to create a fundamental layer to Web3, based on a social identity that users can control.

Left to right: Braxton Woodham, Patrick Murck, Jeffrey Edell and Ursula O’Kuinghttons (Shutterstock/CoinDesk)

Finance

Polkadot Registers Trademark for Blockchain Communication Platform

The trademark filing mentions social networking software.

(Parikshit Mishra/CoinDesk)