Blockchain headlines in June
June 2021 blockchain news items, reports and downloads
June’s blockchain news headlines covered items spanning CNN’s moves into nonfungible token content, Hong Kong’s Apple Daily and the blockchain, a Singaporean telco’s use of blockchain rewards, China’s blockchain-based wages experiment in Xiong’an and more.
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- Snickerdoodle Labs raises $2.3M with data privacy-focused NFTs, aiming for NFTs to be ‘the cookies of the Web 3.0 ecosystem’
- ‘Vault by CNN’ set for launch, to sell memorable moments from CNN’s 41-year history as non-fungible tokens
- Non-fungible tokens, decentralized organisations and perfume
- China: Red Date Technology, technical firm behind state-backed Blockchain-based Service Network, raises $30M Series A, with BSN Int’l to run as Singapore foundation
- NFT trading volume expected to hit $175M by October, given 645% rise between January and March 2021, with market expected to grow from 2020’s $338M to $470M by year-end
- Hong Kong: Apple Daily pro-democracy tabloid forced to shut down by mainland government – now backed up on a censorship-resistant blockchain
- RTHK to erase archival content over one year old, meaning programs covering 2019 HK protests would be wiped from RTHK web and social media. Hong Kong’s response? Blockchain.
- Hong Kong: Amber Group cryptocurrency trading firm raises $100M Series B, ten times the company’s 2019 Series A, offering algorithmic trading and more
- NEAR India Accelerator program launched by NEAR, open-source platform aiming to boost development of decentralized applications in the country
- India: Unbound Finance blockchain startup raises $5.8M, in part enabling interest-free crypto loans in Unbound’s $UND stablecoin and other ‘synthetic assets’
- India Blockchain Alliance and India Accelerator partner to deliver IA Campus Entrepreneurship Program, aiming to accelerate 100+ startups yearly
- India: An intro to BlockSurvey, a decentralised blockchain-powered data collection platform focusing on anonymity and security of user information
- India/Singapore startup StaTwig awarded in UK’s The Trinity Challenge with VaccineLedger, blockchain-based solution tracking each vial of vaccine from manufacturer to beneficiary
- Philippines: Yield Guild Games raises $4M Series A with focus on play-to-earn games using NFTs
- Singapore: New Gorilla Mobile telco launches, including blockchain-based Switchback feature allowing users to convert unused data into tokens to offset bills
- Thailand: An intro to Synqa, digital payments and blockchain firm
- Singapore’s BondEvalue bond exchange gains $6M led by Citi bank with blockchain-based bond market ‘electronification’
- China: Xiong’an government launches digital yuan pilot using Blockchain Fund Payment Platform to pay some builders’ wages
- Australia: Lloyds Auctions Australia begins accepting cryptocurrency for all purchases on its marketplace
- “Zero-knowledge proofs will redefine the privacy guarantees that web services offer…blockchains will enable users to control their financial assets and personal data, without requiring third parties…”
- China: iBox launches following incubation with Huobi X Center, focusing on premium market for NFTs in Asia with low-cost on-chain dApps, smart contacts and digital assets
- Fantasy Hollywood’: A deep dive into the combination of cryptocurrency, NFTs, decentralized autonomous organisations and community-owned characters
- Future Today Institute’s 2021 Tech Trends Report, covering AI, healthtech, blockchain, 5G, government, policy and more
- Tim Berners-Lee to sell source code that made the first web browser work as an NFT in a Sotheby’s auction later in June
- Video: Play-To-Earn, NFT Gaming in the Philippines – how a community earns real-world money by playing token-rewards games like Axie Infinity
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