Fundid’s founder shares how rising interest rates, VCs and partners killed the business finance startup Mary Ann Azevedo 7 hours Welcome to TechCrunch Fintech! This week, we’re looking at […]
After 6-year hiatus, Stripe to start taking crypto payments, starting with USDC stablecoin
Stripe, the fintech giant, continues to inch its way back into the cryptocurrency market. On Thursday the company announced that it would start to let customers accept cryptocurrency […]
Paystand acquires Teampay to be DeFi version of ‘Venmo for B2B payments’
Paystand has acquired spend management software startup Teampay to create what the companies describe as a “no-fee B2B digital payment and spend powerhouse.” Financial terms of the deal […]
There’s a library on the moon now. It might last billions of years.
NASA’s Odysseus Lunar Lander may have tipped over, but it still delivered an important payload of art, music, books … and Bitcoin.
Kiki World, a beauty brand that uses web3 for customer co-creation and ownership, raises $7M from a16z
If you think that choosing a nail polish color or which ingredients go into your face cream cannot have anything to do with blockchain, think again. Kiki World, […]
Nine crypto VCs weigh in on why Q1 investments were so hot and how it compares to the previous bull market
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 […]
The AI world needs more data transparency and web3 startup Space and Time says it can help
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 […]
SBF’s prison sentence marks the end of the crypto grift era — so what’s next?
On Thursday, a federal judge sentenced former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried to 25 years in prison after he was found guilty on seven charges of wire fraud and […]
SBF sentenced, Worldcoin hit with another ban order and big web3 pre-seed rounds are back
Welcome to TechCrunch Crypto, formerly known as Chain Reaction. This is the last edition of this newsletter. I want to personally thank each of you for reading this […]
0G Labs launches with whopping $35M pre-seed to build a modular AI blockchain
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 […]