OpenSea, one of the top blockchain start-ups, has raised $300 million in new venture capital, bringing the total valuation to a staggering $13.3 billion in just four years after it was founded, according to The New York Times.
The new round of funding was led by the investment firms...
Walmart to expand InHome grocery delivery to 30 million U.S. households in 2022 – TechCrunch
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Walmart is expanding its service that will deliver your groceries directly to your refrigerator, the company announced today. First launched in fall 2019, Walmart’s InHome delivery service, as it’s called, allows customers to place grocery orders online, then receive their deliveries by having a Walmart associate enter their...
El Salvador prepares 20 bills to provide legal framework for Bitcoin bonds
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El Salvador’s government, led by President Nayib Bukele, has moved ahead with plans to issue Bitcoin bonds by preparing 20 bills designed to provide a legal framework for them.Head of the Treasury Alejandra Zelaya told El Salvadoran media El Mundo on Jan. 4 that the bills will cover...
Sony shows off SUV, will explore building electric cars as ‘Sony Mobility Inc’ – TechCrunch
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At CES in Las Vegas this evening, Sony’s Chairman, President and CEO Kenichiro Yoshida showed off a brand new prototype of its Vision S concept electric car, and announces that the Sony Group is starting a new division – the Sony Mobility Inc – which will start commercializing...
Bitcoin markets have been consolidating since the beginning of the year, but on-chain metrics are painting a more positive picture as more of the asset is becoming illiquid.On-chain analytics provider Glassnode has been delving into Bitcoin supply metrics to get a better view of the longer-term macro trends...
Waverly Labs brings its translation tech to retail transactions with Subtitles – TechCrunch
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We’ve been covering Waverly Labs for a few years now, primarily focused on the company’s wearable language translators. Today at CES, the Brookyln-based hardware startup unveiled a new form factor for its tech — designed for real-world interactions, and removing the need to share in-ear devices (something that...
Solana hit with another network incident causing degraded performance
Cointelegraph By Brian Quarmby - 0
The Solana blockchain has suffered a third incident in just a few months that clogged the network and caused transactions to fail, with users debating whether it was caused by another DDos attack or if it was just network issues.The scale and nature of the incident is hard...
The People’s Bank of China (PBoC) has extended its pilot tests for the country’s Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) or digital Yuan to launch a new mobile wallet.
As reported by Reuters Tuesday, the new wallet is available to a select few as it is still in the experimental or research...
Sony has announced some basic information about its much-anticipated next-generation VR hardware for the PS5, which it calls — predictably — PSVR2. Very little was revealed about the device but it did confirm some features gamers will care about.
The original PSVR was a competent, relatively affordable, easy to...