Sam Altman’s World Network and Razer Want to Defeat Gaming’s Bot Problem
The teams are releasing “Razer ID verified by World ID,” which is a single sign-on mechanism that will verify real human gamers from bots.
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Arbitrum Awards Biggest-Ever Foundation Grant to Lotte, the South Korean Megacorp
Lotte’s Caliverse, an AI-driven entertainment experience, is coming to the layer-2 network, allowing web3 users to pay for services with crypto.
Family Offices Investors Summit: The $100M Club Bets on Liquid Token, AI, and Gaming in Pivot to Alternative Investments
The Asia-Pacific region is expected to lead global growth in family office wealth, Manana Samuseva, founder of FOIS, told CoinDesk.
Animoca’s Timeline to Go Public Would Depend on The Market’s Status: Yat Siu
Animoca Brands is hoping to go public soon but the final decision on the timeline is dependent on a key component, the “market’s status, amongst other” aspects, the Web3 giant’s chairman Yat Siu told CoinDesk in Singapore on Monday.
Sonic SVM, Gaming Project on Solana Blockchain, Plans $12.8M Node Sale
The project is taking advantage of an increasingly popular fundraising method known as “node sales” just months after a traditional $12 million fundraise.
The Sandbox’s Largest Market for Creators Is Now India: Co-Founder Sebastien Borget
India is Metaverse platform The Sandbox’s largest market for creators with users numbers doubling in less than a year, co-founder Sebastien Borget told CoinDesk in an interview.
NPC Labs Raises $18M to Scale Gaming on Base Network
Round brings total raise to $21 million and includes participation from Makers Fund, Hashed, amongst others.
Sonic, Gaming-Focused Layer-2 Chain on Solana, Raises $12M
Chris Zhu, CEO and founder of Sonic (Robin Huang/Mirror World Labs)
Bybit Confirms Executive Shake Up After Notcoin Deposit Delays
Cryptocurrency exchange Bybit has confirmed reports that several executives have “changed roles” after a botched notcoin (NOT) launch resulted in $23 million in compensation being sent to 320,000 users.
How Gunnar Lovelace Is Trying to ‘Unf*ck’ the World
The serial entrepreneur and ethical capitalist’s latest effort at civil disobedience is being previewed at Consensus 2024.