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Hello friends, and welcome back to Week in Review! Last week, I wrote about Facebook’s never-ending Trump problem. This week, I’m looking at Elon Musk’s wild week of whipping crypto markets. If you’re reading this on the TechCrunch site,…

Solana isn’t widely known yet outside of the crypto community. But insiders think the blockchain platform is interesting for a wide variety of reasons, beginning with its amiable founder, Anatoly Yakovenko, who spent more than a dozen years…

For every crypto-skeptic that see NFTs as yet another hype bubble, there’s an acolyte who sees NFTs as the key to unlocking the future of the creative web. Bitski, an SF-based startup that builds custom NFT storefronts for brands and…

Institutions need to keep their crypto assets somewhere. And they aren’t going to keep it on some random, or consumer-grade crypto operation. This requires more sophisticated technology. Furthermore, being in the EU is going to be a key…

After a years-long crypto winter, it been the spring of NFTs, but as digital art prices sober up after an explosion in sales, blockchain founders are looking to find more stable opportunities in the space that can grow over time even as…

UK-based hedge fund Brevan Howard is set to start investing in cryptocurrencies after allocating 1.5% of its portfolio to the new asset class Brevan Howard Asset Management, the British hedge fund, will start investing in cryptocurrencies.…

Fidelity Investments, Square and Coinbase are amongst the firms that established a cryptocurrency trade group to lobby policymakers. Leading cryptocurrency companies Fidelity Investments, Square, Coinbase and Paradigm are forming a…

imToken, the blockchain tech startup and crypto wallet developer, announced today it has raised $30 million in Series B funding led by Qiming Venture Partners. Participants included returning investor IDG Capital, and new backers Breyer…

The scramble is on to create a digital health passport with some 10 efforts underway, each involving decisions around data privacy and security. (Credit: Getty Images) By John P. Desmond, AI Trends Editor Confirmation of…

Part 2 of 3: 'This will be seen as the next chapter of digital art history' Leigh Cuen 7 hours Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) offer new ways for consumers to collect, wear and trade fashion online, and now that most fashion shows…