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Opensea Acquires Dharma Labs, Co-Founder Is Named New CTO
20.1.2022
Opensea, one of the biggest NFT marketplaces globally, recently announced it is acquiring Dharma Labs. The price is believed to be between $110 million and $130 million. As a result of the new agreement between the two companies, Nadav Hollander, a co-founder at Dharma Labs, will become the...
Web 3.0 needs more users, not more investors
20.1.2022
Projects need to focus on making products that attract non-crypto users in order to drive innovation and maturity in Web 3.0
Abandoned TON Crypto Project Could Be Coming to Telegram After All, in a Different Form
20.1.2022
The Russian social media giant Telegram’s once-grand crypto plans may be dead and buried, but developers working on a network based on the abandoned Telegram Open Network (TON) are edging closer to launching their own version of TON.
The TON platform, which was to make use of a coin named...
How GAIMIN Is Supporting Metaverse and Web 3.0 Ecosystems
19.1.2022
Facebook changes its name to Meta and the world suddenly becomes interested in the metaverse however the term has been around for some time, and is closely associated with Web 3.0. So what is Web 3.0, the Metaverse and how is GAIMIN involved? Web 3.0 Web 3.0 is the term used to describe the next...
Opera Launches Web 3 Browser With Built-in Non-Custodial Wallet
19.1.2022
The popular multi-platform web browser Opera has unveiled its “Crypto Browser Project” meant to offer users direct access to Web 3 services across multiple networks. The project's beta version is already available with a built-in non-custodial wallet for Windows, Mac, and Android users....
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What Were the Hottest Front-End Tools in 2021?
17.1.2022
Another year has passed and once again I’ve had the privilege of going through the Web Tools Weekly newsletter archives from the past 12 months to hunt down the front-end tools that readers found to be the most interesting during …
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Gift to Pope Francis Sold as NFT Raises $80,000 for Afghanistan
16.1.2022
A carpet presented by the United Arab Emirates as a gift to the head of the Catholic Church a few years ago has been sold in the form of NFT. While the original remains in the Vatican, its digital representation has been successfully used to collect funds for the people of Afghanistan. NFT...
Clubhouse. Vzpomínáte? Tohle interaktivní rádio znovu uvolňuje pravidla, poslouchat už se dá i přes web
15.1.2022
Sociální síť Clubhouse dále rozšiřuje možnosti, jak poslouchat. Záznamy a živé vysílání z místností s aktivovaným záznamem lze poslouchat i prostřednictvím webového prohlížeče. Dokonce i bez přihlášení. Zatím to platí pouze pro USA, ale pokud se bude novinka líbit, pustí ji vývojáři i dále do
Mondrian Art in CSS From 5 Code Artists
14.1.2022
Mondrian is famous for paintings with big thick black lines forming a grid, where each cell is white, red, yellow, or blue. This aesthetic pairs well with the notoriously rectangular web, and that hasn’t gone unnoticed over the years with …
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Twitch Purged Over 15 Million Hate Raid Bots Last Year
13.1.2022
A new open letter from Angela Hession, Twitch’s vice president of global trust and safety, details the company’s approach to making its streaming platform a more harmonious place, most notably the deletion of millions of bots in an attempt to stem the site’s hate raid epidemic.Read more
Japanese Firefighter Gets In Trouble For YouTube Gaming Side Hustle
12.1.2022
These days, side hustles are more common than ever. But one firefighter in Wakayama, Japan is being punishing for his double life as a gaming YouTuber. According to Mainichi and AFP, the 33-year-old firefighter uploading 314 videos between December 2020 to October 2021. The fire-fighting YouTuber...
Adding Vite to Your Existing Web App
11.1.2022
Vite (pronounced “veet”) is a newish JavaScript bundler. It comes batteries-included, requires almost no configuration to be useful, and includes plenty of configuration options. Oh—and it’s fast. Incredibly fast.
This post will walk through the process of converting an existing …
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UK Lawmakers Form Crypto and Digital Assets Group to Ensure Regulation Supports Innovation
11.1.2022
U.K. lawmakers have formed the Crypto and Digital Assets Group to ensure that new rules for the crypto industry support innovation. “We are at a crucial time for the sector as global policymakers are also now reviewing their approach to crypto and how it should be regulated,” said...
How to Use Native Custom Fields in WordPress (and 5 Useful Examples)
11.1.2022
Custom Fields in WordPress are arbitrary bits of data that you can apply to Posts, Pages, and Custom Post Types in WordPress. Metadata, as it were, in the form of key/value pairs. For example:
Key: subtitle / Value: They are
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Top Twitch Streamer Amouranth Buys Inflatable Pool Company
10.1.2022
Talk about literally owning your brand. Top Twitch streamer Kaitlyn “Amouranth” Siragusa, who made waves last year as a prominent figure during the streaming service’s “hot tub meta,” has recently purchased an inflatable pool company, she announced on Twitter today.Read more
JPMorgan Shares Predictions on Crypto Markets, Ethereum’s Upgrades, Defi, NFTs
10.1.2022
Global investment bank JPMorgan has published a report on the future outlook of crypto markets, including Ethereum’s upgrades, decentralized finance (defi), and non-fungible tokens (NFTs). The bank sees “the cryptocurrency markets as increasingly relevant to financial...
UK lawmakers form crypto advocacy group for parliament: report
7.1.2022
“We are at a crucial time for the sector as global policymakers are also now reviewing their approach to crypto and how it should be regulated,” said the group's chairperson and MP Lisa Cameron
Blockchain and the Metaverse make inroads at Consumer Electronics Show
5.1.2022
Samsung will feature its developments in Metaverse technology in relation to TVs and smartphones, with several other companies showcasing blockchain, NFT and crypto integrations with the Metaverse
Nigeria Based Storage Provider Says It’s Too Risky for the World to Rely Centralized Cloud Storage Platforms
4.1.2022
In the past year, internet giants like Amazon and Google all experienced outages which were blamed on errors and failed upgrades. The occurrence of such outages and their impact around the world again highlighted the importance of having a decentralized internet. Also, just like how the Covid-19...
The Web is More Gooder, and Other Observations on Today’s Web Tech
30.12.2021
I’m actually working on a talk (whew! been a while! kinda feels good!) about just how good the world of building websites has gotten. I plan to cover a wide swath of web tech, on purpose, because I …