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French Cryptography Startup Zama Raises $73M for Blockchain, AI Privacy Apps
7.3.2024
French cryptography startup Zama has raised $73 million in a Series A funding round led by Multicoin Capital, Protocol Labs and participation from well-known crypto players such as Polkadot co-founder Gavin Wood, and Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko.
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Web3 Companies Create Universal Privacy Alliance To Safeguard Digital Privacy Rights
12.12.2023
Source: Pixabay A coalition of web3 companies have established the “Universal Privacy Alliance” with the aim of safeguarding digital privacy rights. Nym, Protocol Labs, the Filecoin Foundation, Oasis, Aztec, and various other entities are part of the Universal Privacy Alliance (UPA). The alliance...
Today in Crypto: Saga Pulls Back From Blockchain Gaming, Bitfinex Recovers More Stolen Assets, BarnBridge DAO Members Told to Stop 'All Work' Amidst Investigation, Lightning Labs Releases Tools for Bitcoin Lightning & AI Devs
7.7.2023
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Cronos Labs partners Protocol Labs to drive Web3 adoption
7.7.2023
The blockchain business accelerator Cronos Labs has formed an exclusive partnership with Protocol Labs. While Cronos Labs is in charge of the Cronos ecosystem’s growth, Protocol Labs is more of an open-source R&D facility. It involves developing protocols in addition to the tools...
Regulatory Battle: Grayscale Challenged by SEC’s Designation of Filecoin as Security
18.5.2023
Grayscale Investments, the largest digital currency asset manager by assets under management, made an announcement on May 17 regarding a comment received from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). According to the SEC, the crypto asset filecoin qualifies as a security under federal...
Accounting Platform Cryptio Partners With Protocol Labs to Help Filecoin Miners Go Public
14.3.2023
Filecoin miners will be able to generate accounting reports needed to pass their public company accounting oversight board (PCAOB) financial audits
Filecoin Creator Protocol Labs Announces Layoffs Amid Crypto Winter and Economic Downturn
5.2.2023
Protocol Labs CEO Juan Benet published a blog post on Friday announcing that 21% of the company’s staff will be laid off. Protocol Labs is the creator of the blockchain network Filecoin. Benet emphasized in the blog post that it has been an “extremely challenging economic downturn...
Protocol Labs, Chainalysis and Bittrex add to crypto layoff season
4.2.2023
Crypto execs suggested that the "extremely challenging" times forced them to cut jobs in order to “weather this extended" crypto winter
Filecoin Creator Protocol Labs Cuts 21% of Staff
3.2.2023
Protocol Labs, the company behind decentralized file storage network Filecoin, is laying off 21% of its staff, CEO Juan Benet announced in a blog post on Friday
AMD, Seagate and EY Join Protocol Labs-led Decentralized Storage Alliance
31.10.2022
The industry organization is led by Filecoin creator Protocol Labs
Celestia Raises $55 Million to Solve Blockchain Modularity Challenge
21.10.2022
Celestia, a project that aims to solve the perceived centralization problem in current monolithic blockchains, has announced it has raised $55 million in its latest funding round. The round, which was led by Bain Capital Crypto and Polychain Capital, also saw the participation of Delphi Digital...
Decentralized Web3 Protocol Golden Raises $40 Million Backed by A16z
5.10.2022
Golden, a startup that seeks to build a decentralized data hub, has raised $40 million dollars in a Series B funding round. The round, which was led by a16z crypto, will allow the company to keep building its concept, which revolves around combining data submission and validation with Web3-based...
More resilient and user-controlled than the AWS: Colin Evran's vision for Filecoin
12.9.2022
“Filecoin is more than just storage, one can think of it as an Airbnb for cloud services."
Protocol Labs, Filecoin, ETH Foundation, and Electric Coin Join Hands for Halo 2
21.9.2021
Protocol Labs, Filecoin Foundation, and the Ethereum Foundation have signed a deal with Electric Coin Co. (ECC) to explore Halo R&D and know-how. The technology may be employed in their respective ecosystems. The Ethereum Foundation is a non-profit organization committed to supporting Ethereum...
Energy Web and Protocol Labs to Decarbonize Filecoin
10.9.2021
Energy Web and Protocol Labs finally made the announcement, showcasing the adoption of open-source solutions by cryptocurrency miners in a bid to harness decentralized renewable sources of energy according to Filecoin predictions reports. Six providers of Filecoin storage bought authenticated...
ConsenSys and Protocol Labs team up to integrate Filecoin into Ethereum's dev tools
21.10.2020
Filecoin’s devs, miners, and even users will have a chance to access ConsenSys' Ethereum-native tools
The Importance of Randomness in the Internet Age
27.8.2020
Random numbers might not sound like a public good, but we actually rely on randomness for a host of socially useful things
How a Decentralized Randomness Beacon Could Boost Cryptographic Security
11.8.2020
Filecoin will be the first protocol to use this production-ready version of drand to create decentralized, verifiable randomness for “leader selection.”
No, Marvin Ammori, CoinDesk Is Not Trying to Extort You
2.6.2020
Marvin Ammori, Head of Policy at Protocol Labs, says his crypto hero is Hal Finney, recalls his trip to Iceland and thinks crypto should disrupt banks next
Ready Layer One: Base Layer Protocols Team Up for Virtual Developer Event
7.4.2020
A virtual conference is being organized by a bevy of base-layer protocols – the Web3 Foundation, Near, Cosmos, Tezos, Protocol Labs and Polkadot