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Charitablez, a social platform, dedicated to improving the future of fundraising has won the Reimaging Fundraising Challenge 2022. The award was given at the International Fundraising Congress in Amsterdam this week.  Over 700 charities attended the event to discover how charity ...read more

The gentle giant of social media has conquered the digital collectibles world in less than a week. Ranked as the 9th most visited online platform in the world, Reddit is valued at $15 billion dollars after raising funds of $700 million in 2021. Users are at the heart of Reddit ...read more

TAP is a well-matched brand name for anyone tuned into the modern world of finance. As more people across the globe spend time tapping away their earnings via mobile technology, this new method of payment is giving rise to a surgency in mobile applications.  Tap Global is early ...read more

In 1926 Henry Ford progressed the idea of a 40-hour workweek. The 9 to 5 day was designed particularly for assembly line workers at the Ford Motor Company and rolled out across every manufacturing plant in the world. Eventually, it became the norm and anything outside of the norm ...read more

See our weekly selection of articles from around the web to provide more in-depth knowledge about blockchain technology and its applications. Brought to you each week from the editors of Blockleaders.io.  The Real Estate Ownership Revolution by Pete Flint As one of the largest ...read more

Pawnbroking has been operating for the best part of the last 3,000 years. The concept of pawning an item in exchange for short-term credit is known to have existed worldwide as far back as B.C. The practice continued throughout the Greek and Roman civilizations, and remains a ...read more

The effort required to tackle the ongoing climate crisis is rapidly increasing day by day. For this article, we have researched various blockchain projects tackling climate change. The ten projects are driving awareness for and developing solutions for a more sustainable future. ...read more

To the publishing executives, at least according to their recent testimony, the whole industry is just a crapshoot. Sometimes the thing works, sometimes it doesn’t, and nobody really knows why. The hardest-working, most-committed authors are quite often not the ones who get the ...read more

See our weekly selection of articles from around the web to provide more in-depth knowledge about blockchain technology and its applications. Brought to you each week from the editors of Blockleaders.io Usability in Web3 - How to unlock mass adoption In this webinar from ...read more

In a world where people are being bombarded with new information, providing an entertaining way to learn about disruptive technologies and stay abreast of the latest industry trends is no easy task. Twimbit is creating web3 research that is easy to consume by the general public. ...read more

Where can you learn the art of storytelling in the world of Web3? Blockleaders, a dedicated Blockchain publication, has launched an exciting new writing studio as part of its quest to enhance Web3 storytelling. The Writing Studio aims to reimagine how blockchain projects ...read more

The upcoming Ethereum Merge is expected to take place a week from now it is time to explain what it is and explore some of the aftershocks. The highly anticipated merge is estimated to make Ethereum network 99 percent more energy efficient.  The network upgrade will move Ethereum ...read more

Our selection of articles from around the web provides more in-depth knowledge about blockchain technology and its applications.  Brought to you each week from the editors of Blockleaders.io Tokenomics not ponzi-nomics: Influencing behavior, making money by Jillian Godsil In this ...read more

Braintrust, a leading decentralized talent network has launched a referral program that rewards people with BTRST tokens. In an announcement on their Twitter account they are encouraging individuals who know companies hiring to connect them to Braintrust and in return they would ...read more

In its official blog Fireblocks has announced support for DeFi on Solana. Users and projects can now connect to Solana dApps via Fireblocks' Web3 Engine.  Solana is the fifth largest blockchain with $2 billion is total locked value and a vibrant NFT ecosystem. Fireblocks ...read more

Flare Network has announced a strategic collaboration with Swiss blockchain software company Lena Instruments. The partnership will produce an innovative crowdfunding launchpad called CloudFunding.  CloudFunding is a launchpad where contributors are granted exclusive access to ...read more

Could a remote city in the country of Switzerland be the capital of crypto in Europe? This is the ambition of Lugano, a city in the southern region of Switzerland. Earlier this year, the city of Lugano introduced a joint initiative called Plan B between the city of Lugano and ...read more

1. Could you briefly describe the Flare Network, how it’s different from other blockchains and some of the technologies that underpin it? Flare is a powerful new blockchain built for universal connectivity. The vision is to unite the decentralized economy so that it can genuinely ...read more

Set to develop on the Solana Chain, SolMad is an NFT collection in the Solana-verse where nomads travel in search of community, land and resources to keep themselves alive against the threat of extinction, global warming and natural disasters. SolMad will take its users on a ...read more

Developed by the team that designed the award-winning educational multilingual robot ROYBI, UniGalax is taking education to a whole new level. UniGalax is the world’s first edutainment metaverse, that utilizes entertainment and educational tools to revolutionize learning in the ...read more

Hipworth, a renowned NFT Artist and founder of Web3 music platform Djenerates has teamed up with Crypto Gibraltar to offer a world-class immersive experience. Combining both the metaverse and the Universe, this promises to be a special event at the Crypto Gibraltar conference. ...read more

Let's take a closer look at how to reduce our crypto tax in an increasingly regulated market. In spite of the recent crash, cryptocurrency remains a popular asset across the world. It’s not hard to see why: although there is the risk of substantial losses, many coin traders, both ...read more

Blockdaemon, the leading blockchain infrastructure provider, has announced a strategic expansion into APAC.  Blockdaemon already supports multiple institutional use cases with a single API integration and has begun its operations in Singapore as part of its expansion into the ...read more

Energy Web has announced a partnership with Volkswagen Group to roll out a new smart charging solution enabling EV owners to charge their vehicles with renewable electricity that is matched directly with the vehicle’s real-time electricity consumption.  Energy Web is a global, ...read more

As blockchain technology infiltrates more industries, digital assets as proof of ownership are growing in demand. The use of nonfungible tokens (NFTs) to represent physical properties in the real world has begun to take off. Many people today are being priced out of the current ...read more

A new home for global commerce is under construction—and it’s virtual. Oft-hyped, virtual reality (VR) was at a low ebb until Mark Zuckerberg’s announcement last October: Facebook would be renamed Meta, Inc. after ‘the Metaverse’, a term coined by sci-fi author Neal Stephenson ...read more

Sharing is caring or so we are told but when does sharing become careless or when do you get rewarded for investing time in the content you are sharing? Let's tackle the general mood around social media channels today. Social media giant, Meta, formerly known as Facebook, has ...read more

How can companies and governments adopt decentralized finance to finance energy sources of the future? Alternative supplies of energy don't come cheap or fast without significant inputs from both governments and private entities. Our overreliance on fossil fuels has left the ...read more

For our first in a Leaders in Sustainability Series, Blockleaders reporters Lisa Gibbons and Jillian Godsil spoke with Ben Sheppard and Stanley Boots, Co-founders of Silta Finance, Todd Olson, CEO of dClimate and Mark Johnson, Founder of Cleanest Charge to hear about their ...read more

What if Nature could create value and re-distribute it to humans? Do you ever step aside to allow a daffodil room to breathe if you are walking in the park? Great, then you are a step ahead of many when it comes to providing nature with agency. However, after speaking with ...read more

Biz Blocks by Michael Bacina, Partner Piper Alderman Lawyers | Jun 05/2020 The Bank of France has announced the successful completion of a central bank digital currency test. While details are scarce, it seems that not unlike experiments carried out by our very own Reserve Bank ...read more

Biz Blocks by Michael Bacina, Partner Piper Alderman Lawyers | May 29/2020 Blockchain continues to be on the agenda in the US House of Representatives, with Rep. Brett Guthrie (R-KY) introducing a bill calling on the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to survey the prevalence of ...read more

Biz Blocks by Michael Bacina, Partner Piper Alderman Lawyers | May 22/2020 A patent application filed by Visa to create a digital currency on a blockchain has been published by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). The patent was filed on 8 November 2019 in the ...read more

Biz Blocks by Michael Bacina, Partner Piper Alderman Lawyers | May 22/2020 A US Senate Staff Memo has revealed that the US Congress is considering the adoption of a remote participation and voting system. The Memo prepared by the Subcommittee Staff members stated that: "In 1918, ...read more