Less than one month after picking up not one award, but two awards, at BC Tech’s 2022 Technology Impact Awards, web3 darling Dapper Labs has laid off 22 per cent of staff. Dapper Labs, the company behind NBA Top Shot and the Flow blockchain, topped the Spirit of BC Tech – Ambition and Excellence in […]
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Rapture Labs Adds LayerZero Co-founders To Board Of Advisors
Vancouver web3 gaming startup Rapture Labs has added LayerZero co-founders Bryan Pellegrino and Ryan Zarick to its advisory board. Pellegrino and Zarick co-founded LayerZero, along with Caleb Banister, to solve a problem nobody else had been able to effectively solve in crypto and blockchain spaces – to enable secure and direct cross-chain communication. Rapture Labs […]
Los Angeles Rams Get Dapper with Team NFTs for 2022 NFL Season
Dapper Labs is continuing its popularity among sports leagues, recently announcing a partnership with the Super Bowl LVI Champion Los Angeles Rams, which marks the Vancouver startup’s first season-long partnership with an NFL franchise. Team NFTs are digital collectibles made in partnership with individual NFL Teams to give fans a chance to rep their favourite teams. […]
NFT Tech to Create, Execute Web3 Strategy for World Table Tennis Championships
NFT Technologies is serving up a new collaboration with World Table Tennis, which hosts global championships sanctioned by the International Table Tennis Federation. The Vancouver-based web3 startup says an exclusive multi-year deal with World Table Tennis will see NFT Tech develop and execute a web3 strategy to engage the global fan base and “reach the […]
Vancouver Startups Showcase Magic of Music on Blockchain
When non-fungible tokens first exploded into crypto-mainstream last year, the primary product on the market was images. While that form of art remains prevalent, another has emerged at its side, and in Vancouver may even be stealing the spotlight. That’s right: Music is proving an opportune medium to tap into the metaverse and blockchain-related technologies. […]
Doodles NFT Project Taps Pharrell Williams as Chief Brand Officer
Two months after being named as Partner and CEO of Vancouver-born Doodles, Julian Holguin has named star music producer Pharrell Williams as its chief brand officer. The announcement was made at a private Doodle-holder event during NFT.NYC, flashing a video of Williams speaking on the big screen of a packed Palladium Theater. “I’m a big […]
Dapper Labs’ Roham Gharogozlou Takes On Bill Gates On Collision Centre Stage
Vancouver’s own Roham Gharogozlou took centre stage on opening night of the Collision Conference in Toronto last night. The Dapper Labs CEO spoke with the Cut’s Lindsay Peoples about the future of NFTs. Their fireside chat included a response to Bill Gates’ view of NFTs – in which he claimed that they are a sham, […]
Big Whale Labs Secures Seed Funding to Disrupt Social with Web3
Big Whale Labs has raised a $3.8 million seed round. The investment follows a pre-seed round in October. The Vancouver-based web3 startup secured the capital from M13 and Road, with participation from Slow Ventures, C2, Goodwater, Panache, NFR, and angel investors. Big Whale Labs is using web3 technologies to reimagine what digital identity and the […]
CREATE Vancouver to Feature Panel of Local Creatives Building the Metaverse and More
A meetup mixer entered around 3D creators is coming to the city of Vancouver this month. Presented by Secur3D, TerraZero, and Major Tom, CREATE Vancouver is happening on June 16, providing a time and place t0 connect, share, and learn with creators featuring a panel of local creatives building in the web3, NFT, and Metaverse areas. “From gaming to […]
Departure Lounge and Orderinbox Connect to Advance the Metaverse
Departure Lounge has entered into a strategic partnership with Orderinbox. Departure, a subsidiary of Vancouver-based AMPD Technologies, offers a range of Metaverse-related technologies and creative services. The new partnership will see Vancouver neighbour Orderinbox, a social commerce platform and NFT marketplace, work with Departure Lounge as its preferred Metaverse Development Partner, complimenting Orderinbox’s platform with […]