Web3

Web3, or Web 3.0, represents the next generation of internet technology, integrating blockchain and cryptocurrencies into everyday online interactions. It's a decentralized online ecosystem where users have control over their data and transactions. Web3 is powered by blockchain networks, providing transparency, security, and trust. It's a key concept in the crypto world, involving various people, from developers and investors to everyday users. Companies are leveraging Web3 to create decentralized applications (dApps), offering users new ways to interact online. Crypto exchanges play a crucial role in Web3, facilitating the trading of digital assets and tokens that fuel the ecosystem. Web3 represents a paradigm shift, offering opportunities for investment, innovation, and the potential to reshape the internet.

Finance

Blockchain Startup Elrond Rebrands to Focus on Metaverse

Elrond will aim to build on its prior work as a layer 1 blockchain with a focus on scalability to advance Web3 technology in the form of metaverse-related products.

By Jamie CrawleyNov 4, 2022

Learn

How to Find Your Community in Web3

As the Web3 ecosystem continues to expand, so too have the ways in which people can connect and form communities.

By Megan DeMatteoNov 3, 2022

Web3

Web3 Game Developer Mythical Games Loses 3 Top Executives

SVP Chris Ko, COO Matt Nutt and co-founder Rudy Koch announced their departures on Wednesday. Each hinted at new ventures.

By Cam ThompsonNov 3, 2022

Videos

Meta's Instagram Will Soon Allow Creators to Mint, Sell NFTs

Starting this week, Instagram will allow a select group of digital creators to mint and sell non-fungible tokens (NFTs) directly on the social media platform. "The Hash" team discusses the latest in Instagram's Web3 ambitions bringing blockchain awareness to the mainstream.

Nov 3, 2022

Web3

Crypto Exchange Kraken Launches 'Gasless' NFT Marketplace

The beta test is open to those who were joined the waitlist and will include a curated offering of 70 NFTs on the Ethereum and Solana blockchains.

By Rosie PerperNov 3, 2022

Web3

Web3 Platform Alchemy Has a Plan to Thwart Bad Actors in NFT Mints

It’s new technology, Spearmint, is an “allow list” designed to keep out speculators and bots who drive up gas fees.

By Cam ThompsonNov 3, 2022

Finance

Venture Capital Firm Paradigm to Host Crypto Tech Event for US Policymakers

The Hands On Web3 affair aims to give U.S. policymakers a hands-on demonstration of the crypto technologies they could regulate.

By Brandy BetzNov 3, 2022

Web3

SuperRare NFT Marketplace Launches RarePass for Exclusive Curated Art Drops

The artist-first marketplace will airdrop exclusive art to 250 holders of the subscription-like passes over the course of a year.

By Fran Velasquez, Doreen WangNov 3, 2022

Matt Kane, CRYPTOART MONETIZATION GENERATION, 2022 (SuperRare)

Layer 2

What Dance Tells Us About the Uses and Limitations of Art

NFTs may be able to help creators monetize their work, but questions of copyright and ownership have yet to give creators true ownership over their creations.

By Fran VelasquezNov 3, 2022

Woman Strong 1980s Abstract Fashion Model Skipping Dance Pose Pink Blue Purple Pixel Art Cube Block Voxels 3d illustration render (Getty Images)

Layer 2

Vitalik Buterin's 'Proof of Stake': The CoinDesk Megareview

What a decade of essays – covering everything from Soulbound tokens to superrational DAOs – says about Ethereum and crypto.

By Marc Hochstein, Daniel Kuhn, David Z. Morris, Benjamin Schiller, Sage D. YoungNov 3, 2022

DENVER, CO - FEBRUARY 18: Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin speaks at ETHDenver on February 18, 2022 in Denver, Colorado. ETHDenver is the largest and longest running Ethereum Blockchain event in the world with more than 15,000 cryptocurrency devotees attending the weeklong meetup. (Photo by Michael Ciaglo/Getty Images)