The debut fund, Shima Capital Fund I , received funding from investors including Dragonfly Capital, Bill Ackman, Animoca, OKex, Mirana Ventures, Republic, and Andrew Yang, among others.
Horizon Kinetics LLC launched the Blockchain Development ETF (NYSEARCA: BCDF) on August 2. The ETF will invest in companies benefit, either directly or indirectly, from the issuance, facilitation, custody, trading and administration of digital assets, including cryptocurrencies or distributed ledger technology.
Web API providers can now offer Accuweather’s weather data for on-chain applications. Accuweather launched its AccuWeather API in collaboration with API3, a leading first-party blockchain oracle solution, empowering the latter to deliver the highly accurate weather forecast and warning data to decentralized applications (dApps).
CV VC announced Monday at Davos the launch of its African Blockchain Early-Stage Fund to bring the advantages of the blockchain and its own expertise to enable Africa to transact and interact for the well-being of its people and economies.
Kickstarter PBC, the crowdfunding platform founded in 2009, will rework its technological process and base it on the blockchain in a bid to “create a decentralized version of Kickstarter’s core functionality.” More details of the move would be available in a white paper to be released in the coming weeks. However, the new decentralized protocol would reside on the Celo blockchain, an open source and carbon negative blockchain platform.