• Huobi Filecoin IPFS Web 3.0
    Huobi Group CIO Sharlyn Wu will oversee a collaboration aiming for Web 3.0 (Photo: Medium)
    Alt coins,  Technology

    Huobi, Protocol Labs jointly launch $10M Web 3.0 incubation center

    The two firms will collaborate to incubate, invest in, and develop communities for projects that employ IPFS and Filecoin

    November 24, 2020 /

    Protocol Labs user experience lead Jessica Schilling said interplanetary file system, or IPFS, aims to break the internet free from the monopolistic control of a few mega-corporations like Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and China’s Alibaba and Tencent. She also noted that the system can prevent censorship in places like Turkey, where a local version of Wikipedia is being hosted after the government blocked access to the standard Web 2.0 version of the site.

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  • Brad Stephens in the Blockchain Capital office in San Francisco (photo by Martine Paris).
    Brad Stephens in the Blockchain Capital office in San Francisco (photo by Martine Paris).
    Innovators

    INTERVIEW: Blockchain Capital’s origin story is steeped in gaming lore

    Martine Paris interviews Brad Stephens about everything from video game currencies to Facebook’s GlobalCoin

    June 5, 2019 /

    When the sons of legendary investment banker Paul Stephens met Mighty Ducks star Brock Pierce, they were avid World of Warcraft gamers and he was amassing an empire of digital goods exchanges where players could buy, sell, and trade valuable in-game items and virtual currency. Together they would go on to form Blockchain Capital, the first venture capital firm to fund the blockchain ecosystem.

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