Blockchain startup Kandola, which offers a real-time decentralized chip-to-cloud IoT protocol and real-time NFT, has raised a pre-seed round of $450K from a marquee list of investors including AlphaWave Global, Sandeep Nailwal (founder of Polygon), Harsh Rawat (EPNS) among others. The funding round also witnessed participation from Arcanum Capital, a seed-stage VC firm focused on investments … Read more
FTX Trading Limited, and West Realm Shires Inc., the companies behind FTX.US and FTX.COM respectively announced a long-term partnership with four-time Grand Slam singles champion, Naomi Osaka. In addition to becoming an FTX global ambassador, Osaka will receive an equity stake in FTX Trading Limited and will be receiving compensation in crypto. The four time Grand Slam … Read more
Dexalot, a new project building a decentralized order book exchange on Avalanche, has collected $7 million in funding led by Avalanche’s Blizzard Fund (“Blizzard”) and with participation from a number of Avalanche ecosystem players and DeFi investors. In addition to Blizzard, Avalanche ecosystem investors include Avalaunch, Colony, Benqi, AVentures, and Avascan. Other partners who joined … Read more
Aqarchain.io a blockchain-powered real estate asset tokenization platform, launched the NFT Marketplace for its MetaVerse AqarLand. Aqarchain.io whose aim is to create a decentralized ecosystem where investment in real estate is as easy as investing in shares on the stock market. This aim is achieved by minting real estate NFT and fractionalizing it. This is … Read more
Rario, the world’s first officially licensed cricket digital collectibles platform today announced that Australian white-ball captain, Aaron Finch is the latest on the growing list of cricketing superstars to have signed an exclusive contract with them. Aaron joins the likes of Virender Sehwag, Zaheer Khan, Smriti Mandhana, Rishabh Pant, Rashid Khan, Jason Holder, Quinton De Kock, M Siraj, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Shafali Verma as player … Read more
Aqilliz, a Blockchain-as-a-Service Company building tools and technologies that prepares the marketing industry for the Web3 world, has set up a first of its kind, curated music and entertainment NFT marketplace, “WishWorld” in partnership with One Mercuri, a leading multi-domain business group headquartered in India. “WishWorld is unique. It is consumer first, designed to delight … Read more
RtistiQ will present the Digital NFT versions of Raja Ravi Varma’s (RRV) works The Coquette and Reclining Nair Lady, two of his most famous paintings. With the originals considered to be National Treasures and unable to be brought out of India, the NFT versions will be auctioned online on the RtistiQ platform from 17 February … Read more
Flint, a worldwide cryptocurrency investment tool, has secured $5.1 million in venture funding from Sequoia Capital India and GFC. Coinbase Ventures, Hashed, IOSG, Better Capital, Antler India, and MSA Capital were among the 11 institutional investors who participated in the round. The company, which was founded in October 2021, now provides a simple and steady … Read more
Mphasis an information technology (IT) solutions provider specializing in cloud and cognitive services, today announced its partnership with CrossTower, one of the world’s leading crypto exchanges, to build a Center of Excellence (CoE) focused on Web 3.0 and a series of blockchain-based products that will be launched and traded on the CrossTower platform. The partnership … Read more
In a first-of-its-kind initiative to maximize the monetary potential of memes in the blockchain ecosystem, MemeChat, India’s top meme-creating platform known for viral memes, has launched The Meme Club – an NFT marketplace (TMC). The platform will provide meme creators, collectors, and other interested parties to buy and sell memes globally via NFT (non-fungible tokens). … Read more
India’s first social crypto-token by the country’s leading short-video app went live on 12 crypto exchanges. Short Video app Chingari’s first-ever social token $GARI witnessed record-breaking 24 hours trading volume that crossed the $100M mark. On the day of its listing the desi crypto-token gain of Rs. 750 Crores across 12 major crypto exchanges. These … Read more
The Mumbai-based photographer and multimedia artist Akshita Gandhi listed her first NFT – “Gaia.” It is part of a series of NFTs that playfully tackle the pertinent topics of female representation and sustainability. The NFT, which promotes environmental awareness, is a 10-second video listed on the marketplace Throne with a starting price of 0.45 ETH. An artwork … Read more
Non-fungible Tokens (NFTs), essentially blockchain-certified digital art, have been gaining immense popularity among brands, artists, celebrities, etc, both in India and globally. India’s leading media conglomerate Viacom18’s Youth, Music and English Entertainment (YME) cluster, is all geared up to set its foot in the rapidly growing digital space of non-fungible tokens with the announcement of the NFT marketplace Fullyfaltoonft.com, … Read more
Diginoor, an Indian NFT marketplace that launched with Rajinikanth movie NFTs, announced $1 million in its seed funding. The round saw participation from Contrary Capital, Polygon Fund, Sandeep Nailwal, Kunal Shah, Abdul Wahab Al-Halabi (MD at Embassy Capital), and others. Founded in 2021 by Chennai based teenage entrepreneurs- Shaamil Karim & Yash Rathod, Diginoor aims … Read more
Bitbns, a leading Indian cryptocurrency exchange, launched a campaign to create awareness among the crypto enthusiasts to invest in Crypto. The ‘Enter the Metaverse’ campaign is associated with a leading blockchain-based gaming platform – The Sandbox, which will provide five SAND tokens for every new trade by the new user. With the campaign SAND, the … Read more
Sandeep Nailwal, Co-founder of blockchain scalability platform Polygon, raised undisclosed Pre-seed funding for Bliv.Club, a Non-fungible Token (NFT) derivative firm, the company stated in a statement. The company was created in 2021 by Vikas Singh, Abhishek Kumar Gupta, and Mohammed Sirajuddin. Commenting on the investment Vikas Singh, Co-Founder Bliv.Clu said “Our core objective at Bliv … Read more
