Category: ICO

Farcaster, Blockchain-Based Social Media Startup, Raises $150M, Led by Paradigm

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Crypto Sleuth Ogle Proposes Security-Centric ‘Glue’ Blockchain

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‘Web3 Marketing Is a Win-Win’

Yeah, sure. So basically, any Mention or Like [on social media] can be measured. If anyone is digitally talking about or promoting your product, you can see the outcome of that. This could apply to marketing activities like advertisements, or collaborations with influencers, or quest platforms. Thanks to us, basically, you can see the real out come — not just in terms of the number of visits or the time that folks spend on your website coming from a specific source and spending an exact amount of money, but you…

Web3 Marketing Startup Spindl Launches On-Chain Ad Network

“It’s more transparent. It’s fair. It’s natively on-chain. It’s, to be blunt, better for privacy,” said Garcia Martinez, CEO of Spindl, whose core service is attribution. “We’re not using weird, sketchy Web2 data,” such as consumers’ browsing history or their personal information, to target campaigns – just on-chain transactions, which are already public. Source

Solana-Based Wallet Phantom Buys Web3 Specialist Bitski

“In the future, we think embedded wallets really make sense for decentralized applications, rather than being forced to build their own or use less trusted firms or experimental products,” said Wu in an interview. “With Bitski’s expertise in embedded wallets, onboarding will be much easier. Instead of telling people to download a separate mobile app, and adopt a seed phrase, simply sign up with an email and get started immediately.” Source

We warn organisations must not ignore data protection risks as we conclude Snap ‘My AI’ chatbot investigation

ICO concludes investigation into Snap’s approach to assessing the data protection risks of its ‘My AI’ chatbot Early ICO action highlights the importance of protecting privacy rights in the context of generative AI Regulator warns industry to engage with the data protection risks of generative AI before bringing products to market ICO continuing to monitor the development and deployment of generative AI models, and reminds industry it must innovate responsibly The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has concluded its investigation into Snap, Inc’s launch of the ‘My AI’ chatbot. In June…