Bitmain, Huobi, ConsenSys and Steemit are among the cryptocurrency startups to complete layoffs in the last month.
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Layer1 wants to thrive in the age of the crypto crash
A year ago, crypto was reaching ever new highs, and I was talking about whether ICOs would supplant the VC funding round and warning about Kim Jong Un’s crypto trading operations. And then the world turned upside down. Crypto prices are near rock-bottom prices, with Bitcoin hanging around $4,000 and Ethereum around $113, down from […]
View More Layer1 wants to thrive in the age of the crypto crashA blockchain firm bought asteroid mining company Planetary Resources
Here’s a match made in…I don’t know, somewhere on the blockchain, I guess. Pioneering space startup Planetary Resources was acquired by, of all things, a blockchain firm this week. ConsenSys, a Brooklyn based firm that specializes in all things Ethereum issued an announcement noting that it has snagged the asteroid mining company. It’s not entirely […]
View More A blockchain firm bought asteroid mining company Planetary ResourcesBlockchain media startup Civil is issuing full refunds to all buyers of its cryptocurrency
Many doubted The Civil Media Company’s ambitious plan to sell $8 million worth of its cryptocurrency, called CVL. The skeptics, as it turns out, were right.
View More Blockchain media startup Civil is issuing full refunds to all buyers of its cryptocurrencyCivil, the blockchain journalism startup, has partnered with one of the oldest names in media
Civil, the two-year-old crypto startup that wants to save the journalism industry by leveraging the blockchain and cryptoeconomics, has partnered with the 172-year-old Associated Press to help the wire service stop bad actors from stealing its content. Civil, using its blockchain-enabled licensing mechanism, which is still in development, will help the AP track where its […]
View More Civil, the blockchain journalism startup, has partnered with one of the oldest names in mediaBlockchain media project Civil turns to Asia with fund to kickstart 100 new media ventures
Civil, the blockchain-based journalism organization, is casting its eye to Asia after it set up a $1 million fund that’s aimed at seeding 100 new media projects across the continent over the next three years. The organization has teamed up with Splice, a Singapore-based media startup which will manage the fund, according to an announcement. There’s […]
View More Blockchain media project Civil turns to Asia with fund to kickstart 100 new media venturesJoseph Lubin, Amanda Gutterman and Sam Cassatt from Consensys to speak at Disrupt SF
There is perhaps no firm that has done as much to promote the adoption of Ethereum as the dominant cryptocurrency platform for actual product development as Consensys. Founded by Ethereum Foundation co-founder Joe Lubin, Consensys has emerged as an investor, accelerator, educator and product developer in its own right in little more than three years […]
View More Joseph Lubin, Amanda Gutterman and Sam Cassatt from Consensys to speak at Disrupt SFConsenSys Ventures invests in six companies and launches its Accelerator
ConsenSys Ventures, the venture arm of the ConsenSys Ethereum blockchain powerhouse, has invested in a new round of five companies and is today formally launching its Accelerator. The five companies were invested in with a “combination of equity and tokens together. It was a unique termsheet created by Consensys Ventures in accordance with the SEC […]
View More ConsenSys Ventures invests in six companies and launches its AcceleratorConsensys Ventures has made its first four investments
A scant three months after its launch the $50 million Consensys Ventures fund that was created to back companies developing applications on Ethereum (by Ethereum co-founder Joe Lubin’s Consensys Systems) has made its first four investments. Created as another way to boost Ethereum adoption and back companies to get them traction in the market, the Ethereum Ventures fund hired Kavita… Read More
View More Consensys Ventures has made its first four investments