Blockchain

The new partnership between pioneering Metaverse company LasMeta and innovative software platform Stardust may dramatically transform blockchain gaming in the emerging Metaverse.

Despite the crypto bear market, blockchain gaming attracted $600 million in investments in Q3 2023, though still only half of Q3 2022’s total.

Immutable has collaborated with Amazon Web Services (AWS) in an effort to transform blockchain-based gaming by improving scalability, reducing costs, and supporting developers.

Hong Kong-based Web3 and blockchain fund CMCC Global has launched a new $100 million venture capital fund called Titan Fund focused on early-stage investments.

Brazil is rolling out a blockchain-based digital identity program, with Rio de Janeiro, Goiás, and Paraná being the first states to issue ID documents on the blockchain.

Google Cloud’s BigQuery data warehouse service expanded its blockchain coverage by adding 11 more networks, now totaling 19 different blockchain datasets.

South Korea’s second largest city Busan is allocating $75 million to develop an open public blockchain network compatible with Ethereum and Cosmos, aiming to make Busan a blockchain city.

Provenance Blockchain and Axelar are collaborating to increase cross-chain interoperability of financial assets across blockchains and institutions to boost liquidity and access for investors

Venture capital firm Blockchain Capital has closed two new crypto funds totaling $580 million, with a focus on early and late-stage blockchain investments.

Google Cloud’s James Tromans says TradFi leads blockchain demand, but digital identity and supply chain are emerging as exciting use cases.