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Next trends of the gaming industry with Kevin Chou, founder of SuperLayer, Rally, Forte, and Kabam
In a special talk given at the SCET’s Fall 2021 Newton Lecture Series, distinguished founders Kevin Chou and Mike Li tell the audience their stories of founding multiple startups and give advice to young entrepreneurs. “Go figure out what’s weird and wacky about yourself. Find your weird curiosity and try to think about how to…
Meet ‘Puma Browser,’ a browser with built-in micropayments
As a photography enthusiast, Yuriy Dybskiy had been thinking about how to make money as a creator. After working on projects tackling the challenge of creating a sustainable stream of income online, he took to a blockchain-powered idea: a browser with in-built micropayments. Puma Browser is a privacy-focused mobile web browser which provides a new…
‘Coin Assistant’ Startup Makes Crypto Easy to Use
Coin founders Damon Nam and Byron Levels had initially set out to solve a personal problem: their passion for the potential of blockchain was met with an equal frustration for current solutions with high friction, extreme complexity, and poor user experiences. Investigating this problem further, Nam and Levels decided to poll consumers about the core…
‘The most powerful force in the world’: Coinbase CEO on the rise of cryptocurrency
Digital currency exchange company Coinbase is taking the bitcoin world by storm. CEO and co-founder Brian Armstrong took the stage at TechCrunch San Francisco in September to share his experience in building Coinbase. According to Armstrong, about 40,000 people signed up for Coinbase in just one day, leading the company to quickly develop a customer…
Breaking the Blockchain Bubble: A roundtable discussing the future of blockchain technology
On March 1st, the Blockchain Lab hosted a roundtable with three industry leaders along with student representatives from Blockchain at Berkeley to discuss the importance and growth of this groundbreaking technology. CEOs from ThirdACT, CyrptoWerk, and Legal.io showcased how different industries are able to find faster solutions with the implementation of blockchain. Ikhlaq Sidhu, chief…
This blockchain startup raised $12 million in 2 hours. Here’s how
On Jan. 31 two UC Berkeley alumni held a pre-sale for SPN tokens, a type of blockchain token that’s required to access a new social media platform they created. In two hours, people had bought $12 million dollars worth of it. So why did their new social network, Sapien, create such a buzz? One of…