The buzz is undeniable. Lightspeed Faction leads $7.5M seed funding into MagicBlock Ephemeral Rollups, a new technology that offers to combine Solana’s speed with Web2’s customizability. Real-time on-chain games, high-frequency trading – this is all very cool stuff. Wait, let’s pump the brakes for a second. As someone who's seen...
I’m going to be honest with you, galas and fundraisers and funding rounds all seem…far-away right now. Another company, another pile of cash. Yet MagicBlock’s $7.5 million seed round from this week feels more surprising. It certainly does seem like a turning point, particularly for African developers. Can Solana, through...
MagicBlock, a real-time engine designed for decentralized games and applications on the Solana blockchain, has successfully raised $7.5 million in a seed round. This funding will jumpstart the deployment of cutting-edge technology. As a hybrid of blockchain functionality and traditional server capabilities, it harnesses the best of both worlds. MagicBlock...
We know the blockchain technology world is changing rapidly, and there are many exciting things happening that we can’t even imagine yet. Solana, which markets itself as the fastest and most efficient blockchain, is a leading example of this evolution. Now MagicBlock is coming into the ring with its revolutionary...
Dutch Blockchain Week (DBW) 2025 is shaping up to be the premier event for anyone serious about blockchain, Web3, and the future of digital assets. Attending isn't enough. In order to fully maximize the experience, you need to be a little more intentional about your networking. This guide will provide...
Let's be honest: every year, another "blockchain week" pops up, promising to finally deliver on the Web3 revolution. We see and read about decentralized finance, NFTs revolutionizing art, blockchain eradicating world hunger. It’s cool, it’s new, it’s sexy and quite frankly, 90% of the time, it’s hype. Dutch Blockchain Week...
It’s a cliché used all too often today, but it’s true. What does it really mean? Does it mean ensuring that a bank account is accessible to all? Or does it simply enable them to open accounts that are emptied by the burgeoning predatory fee ecosystem? Or does it mean...
Imagine this: A small village in sub-Saharan Africa desperately needs a new schoolhouse. The money is committed, the contracts are expected to be in place. Months wear on, the rainy season arrives, and work ceases to a halt. Why? This cumbersome, opaque system of promissory notes—the foundation for most of...
Okay, let's talk Ethereum. With green across the entire board, Bitcoin hitting all-time highs again this summer, and altcoins like Ethereum are really catching a serious bid. Before you take out a second mortgage on your house to purchase some ETH, let’s pump the brakes for just a moment. Are...
The scientific community is grappling with a significant challenge: the reproducibility crisis. These are studies that cannot hold up under scrutiny — research, even published in top tier journals, that other researchers can’t reproduce. This undermines the reproducibility of findings and stalls progress in science. Now, decentralized prediction markets are...
