Web3 startup D3 Labs announced that it has secured pre-seed funding with an undisclosed amount from a number of investors, including Saison Capital, Kinesys Capital, Arkana Capital, EX Capital, Qredo, DS/X Ventures, as well as UOB Venture Management and Signum Capital through the UVM Signum Blockchain fund.

FIFA has launched the open beta version of its World Cup AI League, a mobile strategy soccer game that uses AI for characters, cosmetics, and gameplay elements.

Electronic musicians Steve Aoki and Justin “3LAU” Blau have formed a new collaborative project called Punx, which draws inspiration from the CryptoPunks NFT collection. Their first track “Concentrate” will be released on Web3 music rights platform Royal, with 99 NFTs up for trade after issuance. Half of all royalties from the track will be split among 99 NFT collectors chosen from among Blau’s NFT holders, Aoki’s A0k1verse Passport NFT holders, and CryptoPunks NFT holders, in an effort to democratize ownership of the song. Blau is also the co-founder and CEO of Royal, which aims to grant music fans the opportunity to support their favorite artists with NFTs that grant them rights to a percentage of a song’s royalties. Both Blau and Aoki have made numerous moves across the Web3 world and share an affinity for this technology.

The team at Unizen, operating the Web3 ecosystem found at zcx.com, is pleased to announce a strategic partnership with the team at THORChain. Specifically, Unizen has integrated the THORChain settlement layer to enable swaps between ETH (Ethereum) and AVAX (Avalanche C-chain) to BTC (Bitcoin) and vice versa.

The European Union’s agreement of a new crypto law puts the bloc in the lead on Web3 technology, U.S. House Financial Services Committee Chair Patrick McHenry (R–N.C.) told CoinDesk TV Tuesday.

Google Cloud is looking to help Web3 builders fast-track their projects by expanding its early-stage support program for the community.

The field of Web3 has advanced by leaps and bounds over the past year, and we see more and more well-known brands jump on that ship.

Japan’s regulatory and political environment for crypto and Web3 technologies has been evolving rapidly over the past several years. The Financial Services Agency of Japan reported in December 2022 it planned to lift restrictions on foreign-issued stablecoins in Japanese exchanges, which could have significant implications for the decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem in Japan and the wider region. 

Bitwave, the leading enterprise digital asset accounting platform, announced today its acquisition of Multisig Media, the crypto accounting and finance industry's premier provider of continuing professional education (CPE) and news.

CV Wallet, the skills-based hiring platform that harnesses the latest Web3 and AI technologies, has raised $1.1 million in an angel investment round.