Valuations

Unveiling the Inaugural Global Protocol Report: A Comprehensive Analysis of Blockchain Protocols that is Poised to Aid WEB3 Decisions

Crypto Oasis, Crypto Valley, the DLT Science Foundation and Inacta Ventures Join Forces in a Groundbreaking Initiative that Will Help Navigate the Blockchain Trilemma Highlights: The report has unprecedented transparency and clarity, granular insights, and an evolving analysis of DLT protocol attributes. It will help industry experts and novices gain foundational knowledge on DLT concepts, WEB3 ecosystem infrastructure, the evolution of the Blockchain landscape, and the role of capital, talent, infrastructure, and regulations in WEB3 innovation. The Global Protocol Report introduces a comprehensive framework for assessing the maturity of DLT

Dynamic Rewards Unleashed

Following weeks of preparation and hard work, we’re incredibly excited to open the Paribus Mainnet v1 tomorrow. This marks the welcome return of our protocol and heralds the beginning of our rewards program. For those who participated in our staking program, the concept behind the rewards program will be simple to understand. We’ve allocated 100 million PBX tokens to be issued as rewards to borrowers on the platform. This concept is even more exciting because the rewards are scheduled to be released evenly across every block and are anticipated to

The Price is Right

This week we dig a little deeper into our rationale and the challenges we’ve faced in developing a new protocol. As we’ve seen this year, borrowing and lending in crypto can be a risky business which is why we’ve taken our time to thoroughly plan and think through the process. Two essential lessons everyone should have learned in 2022 are that leverage is bad and giving away control of your crypto is a recipe for disaster. To ensure neither of these situations occurs with Paribus we’ve followed the safest approach

Companies Going Public in 2021: Visualizing IPO Valuations

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The Esports Bubble: Fact or Fiction?

Top GamesThe 2020 League of Legends Worlds Finals | Photo courtesy of Riot GamesMany experts in the esports industry have been debating whether the esports market has evolved into a bubble. With money pouring into esports and related companies at a rapid and increasing rate, some have begun to question whether these investments are justified. Are these investments sustainable? Are the majority of companies overvalued? Are investors sticking to fundamentals when evaluating their opportunities, or are they simply speculating and gambling on a get-rich-quick scheme? Is the market bound to collapse?

Discord’s reported $10B exit; Compass and Intermedia Cloud Communications set IPO price ranges

It’s demo day for the current Y Combinator class, so we’ll have a largely early-stage focus at TechCrunch today. But there’s also a host of late- and super-late-stage news this morning that matters. Let’s get to all of it before we start to talk accelerators, overheated pre-seed valuations and the like. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. Read it every morning on Extra Crunch, or get The Exchange newsletter every Saturday. There are three things to discuss. First, the possible $10 billion exit of Discord to Microsoft. Discord is

Mark Cuban and other billionaires join the NBA Blockchain Committee

As some brand-name decentralized finance (DeFi) tokens sputter, a crop of new projects have emerged that are catching strong bids on the back of aggressive yield farming programs, generous airdrops, and significant technical advances.  It’s a set of outlier projects pushing forward on both price and fundamentals that has led one crypto analyst, eGirl Capital’s mewny, to brand them as DeFi’s “Gen 2.” feels like theres a gen 1 and gen 2 of defi tokens now the former is stagnant and the latter is pamping has nothing to do with

ReKTGlobal Avoided Focusing on One Thing in Order to Become Who They Are Today

In a world where investing in the esports space is still an uncertainty, putting a spotlight on those that have thrived after suffering early struggles can help lead the way for others–and ReKTGlobal has done exactly that. Founded in 2016 by Amish Shah and Dave Bialek, the esports conglomerate has found success both in the esports competitive scene along with its B2B and B2C arms. ReKTGlobal owns Rogue, which has teams competing in the League of Legends European Championship (LEC), Rocket League, Rainbow Six: Siege, and more. The company also