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Peer Acquires Elite Team of Engineers Behind Zenly’s Popular 3D Maps

Seattle, Washington, 1st February, 2023, Chainwire Peer today announced the hiring of a specialist team of engineers from Zenly to develop its AI-powered 3D maps. The team, known in tech circles by its codename “Wonka,” developed Zenly’s innovative 3D social maps platform that grew to more than 160 million downloads worldwide and 35 million daily active users in 2022.  “Zenly users adored its polished and delightful features,” explained Tony Tran, Founder & CEO of Peer Inc. “We’re huge fans as well, and we look forward to working with the Wonka team to recreate that magic and take it to the

Addressable raises $7.5M to enable Web3 companies to acquire users at scale

Tel Aviv, Israel, 31st January, 2023, Chainwire Addressable, an innovative end-to-end solution for Web3 marketing, announced today that it secured $7.5 million in a seed funding round, led by Viola Ventures and Fabric Ventures, with participation from Mensch Capital Partners and North Island Ventures. The funding will be used to accelerate adoption and expansion of Addressable’s best-in-class solution, including support for additional blockchains and social media integrations. “Marketing is all about knowing your audience, but since crypto wallets are anonymized by design, Web3 marketers rarely know their audience’s age, country or purchasing history,” says Dr. Asaf Nadler, co-founder and chief

Venom Ventures Fund Commits a $5 Million Strategic Investment in the Everscale Blockchain

Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, 31st January, 2023, Chainwire Venom Ventures Fund, a Web3 and blockchain innovation fund managed by Abu Dhabi-based investment fund manager Iceberg Capital Limited, has announced a strategic partnership with Everscale, a premier blockchain that aims to solve the scalability issues bogging down the Web3 industry. Venom Ventures Fund has committed a $5 million investment in Everscale to help it further expand its development teams and boost the number of projects. The investment will be in stages, based on the progress and cooperation indicators. Everscale has been diligently working on expanding its reach and integrating its technology

Biswap DEX Unveils Improved AMM as Part of Its Ambitious 2023 Roadmap

New York, United States, 31st January, 2023, Chainwire BNB Chain decentralized exchange Biswap has published its 2023 roadmap which includes a number of proposed improvements and upgrades. It includes details of a new AMM, route optimization, and perpetual trading.  Take a look at the main Biswap benefits: https://biswap.org/.  A new AMM protocol with concentrated liquidity will allow Liquidity Providers to accumulate their capital to smaller price intervals than from 0 to infinity, increasing capital use efficiency and providing users with more profitable exchange conditions with less slippage. Improved routing to find the best trading pairs will allow users to execute

Bunzz Raises $4.5M Seed Round to Expand its Smart Contract Hub for DApp Development

Singpore, Singapore, 24th January, 2023, Chainwire Bunzz a web3 development platform for decentralized applications, has completed a $4.5M seed round. Investors included gjmp, DG Daiwa Ventures, Coincheck, and Ceres. Funding will be used to help build out Bunzz’s Smart Contract Hub, which is already used by more than 8,000 dApp developers. (Product page: https://bunzz.dev/ ) Bunzz has established a strong track record since its launch 11 months ago. Over 8,000 DApp developers have been using the platform, and more than 3,000 DApp projects have been deployed on-chain, making it one of the largest DApp development infrastructures in Asia.  The platform

Binance Charity Announces 1000 African Scholars In Collaboration With Utiva

Paris, France, 27th January, 2023, Chainwire Binance Charity, the philanthropic arm of Binance, the world’s leading cryptocurrency and blockchain infrastructure provider, and Utiva, a technology education company in Africa that helps young people learn tech skills, today announced that they have selected the 1,000 Africans who will be taking part in a free 1-year intensive skill training program. The scholarship year is set to kick off on 29 January, 2023 with a virtual launch day. As unemployment rises across the continent, Binance and Utiva remain committed to providing digital education to enable more Africans explore global career opportunities and secure

China’s “Instagram” chooses Conflux Network for permissionless blockchain integration

Toronto, Canada, 24th January, 2023, Chainwire Little Red Book, (XiaohongShu), the Chinese version of Instagram integrates Conflux Network as permissionless blockchain allowing users to showcase NFTs minted on Conflux on their profile page in the digital collection section called ‘R-Space’. The platform has more than 200 million active monthly users and this integration brings NFTs a step closer to mass adoption, where people are actively using Web3 technology on a daily basis within a Web2 system.   Little Red Book has previous alliances with blockchains and NFTs but never a permissionless network.  Ming Wu, CTO of Conflux said “large internet

Genesis Coin Inc, Powering 35% of Global Bitcoin ATM Transactions, Acquired by Bitstop Founders

Miami, Florida, 24th January, 2023, Chainwire Genesis Coin Inc, the first and largest Bitcoin ATM software platform worldwide announced today that they have been acquired by early Bitcoin ATM pioneers Andrew Barnard and Doug Carrillo.  Founded in 2013, Genesis Coin’s technology powers approximately 35% of global Bitcoin ATM transactions. Barnard and Carrillo, who also founded Bitstop, built the first and largest private-label Bitcoin ATM platform based in Miami, FL with over 2,500+ Bitcoin ATMs worldwide. Genesis Coin and Bitstop represent over 75+ operators operating 12,000+ Bitcoin ATMs in the United States and international markets powering billions of dollars in annual

BlockchainSpace Makes An Exceptional Move for Web3 Community Support with Metasports Acquisition

Manila, Philippines, 19th January, 2023, Chainwire BlockchainSpace CEO and Founder Peter Ing, Metasports CBO and Co-Founder Lars Hernandez, and Metasports CEO and Co-Founder Joe Josue are optimistic that the majority acquisition of Metasports will make waves in Web3 and bring great value to their stakeholders in the coming years. BlockchainSpace (BSPC), the leading data aggregator and infrastructure provider for guilds and Web3 projects, is confident that 2023 will be a banner year following the majority acquisition of Intellectual Property (IP) House, Metasports. Peter Ing, Chief Executive Officer and Founder of BSPC, believes the synergistic partnership with Metasports will bring more

Coinbase Lists KAVA, Advancing Ethereum–Cosmos Interoperability

San Francisco, California, 18th January, 2023, Chainwire Today, Coinbase has listed Kava and will launch a massive Learning Rewards Campaign to educate its user base about how Kava is leading the world to Web3. Kava is a decentralized layer-1 blockchain that combines the speed and interoperability of Cosmos with the developer power of Ethereum. Kava has spent the last year building a deep integration with Coinbase that optimizes the process for Cosmos SDK chains to integrate with Coinbase helping to drive new liquidity to the Cosmos ecosystem. Unlocking Cosmos Liquidity Coinbase’s native integration with Kava allows for easy listing of

Primex Finance Introduces Beta 0.3.0 App With Deployments to Polygon Mumbai and zkEVM Testnets

Kyiv, Ukraine, 18th January, 2023, Chainwire Cross-chain prime brokerage protocol Primex Finance rolls out a major update to its application. Launching in two stages, Beta 0.3.0 introduces a variety of new features, as well as improvements and fixes of existing functionalities. Starting on January 12th, 2023, Phase 1 was exclusively available for Primex Early Users, who could be the first to have a hands-on experience with Beta 0.3.0. From now on, Early Users will get privileged access to all major protocol updates in the future (beginning from Beta 0.3.0). In addition to the chance to test new releases before other

Fasttoken holds the public sale of its cryptocurrency, FTN

Tortola, British Virgin Islands, 18th January, 2023, Chainwire Fasttoken (FTN) is excited to announce its initial exchange offering (IEO), set to take place from Jan. 18 to 20, 2023. A limited number of 10 million tokens will be available for public sale, with a price of 0.35 euro per token. Fasttoken is the official cryptocurrency of Fastex, a complete Web3-driven ecosystem that includes Fastex Chain, Fasttoken, ftNFT marketplace, Fastex Pay and the ecosystem’s metaverse, Fastex Verse. The Fastex ecosystem is designed to provide a seamless and integrated experience for users, allowing them to engage easily with the various features and