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Starbucks launched Starbucks Odyssey in 2022 as its initial foray into the web3 world.

Starbucks launched Starbucks Odyssey in 2022 as its initial foray into the web3 world.

Rails, a decentralized crypto exchange, has raised $6.2 million in attempts to fill the void FTX left behind after crashing in 2022, the startup’s

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Welcome to TechCrunch Crypto. This week, Starbucks killed its Odyssey NFT program, Solana continued to see memecoin momentum and India faces more challenges with the crypto space.

photo of A new web3 network is being built right now that wants to end Big Tech’s control of your data image Many of the people building Web3 feel like the traditional web ecosystem has taken advantage of users and their data. While it benefits a number of businesses, data miners and even AI models, some see it as an overreach. Some of the problems with the web that exists today, which some web3-focused people call…

As the crypto space heats back up, so has funding for new startups. 0G Labs, a web3 infrastructure firm,” has raised $35 million in a pre-seed round, the

Sam Bankman-Fried, the co-founder and former CEO of crypto exchange FTX and trading firm Alameda Research, was sentenced to 25 years in prison by Southern

As AI proliferates and things on the internet are easier to manipulate, there's a need more than ever to make sure data and brands are verifiable, said Scott Dykstra, CTO and co-founder of

If the 2023 crypto venture landscape was an ice cold pot of water, the first quarter of 2024 is the part where the bubbles start to form right before water boils, Tom Schmidt, a partner at Dragonfly Capital, said to TechCrunch.