Walmart patent, Kinect Hub end, IBM patent lead, DeFi and CBDCs in 2020, and crypto infrastructure building.

LootMogul, Harmony One deal dead after hack

In early 2022, sports metaverse platform LootMogul announced a strategic investment from the Layer-1 protocol Harmony One. The deal was structured as a collaboration rather than a pure equity injection....

Kinect Hub blockchain healthcare platform ends

Kinect Hub was a proposed digital health platform designed to marry Microsoft's Kinect motion-tracking device with blockchain technology. The concept hinged on the Kinect's ability to capture body movements in...

Animoca raises $359M at >$5B valuation

In January 2022, Hong Kong based Animoca Brands closed a funding round that drew attention for its deliberately stylized amount: $358,888,888. The raise gave the business a pre-money valuation above...

DeFi, enterprise, CBDCs defined 2020 crypto

In 2020, blockchain and crypto moved from a story of survival after the 2018-2019 crash to one of institutional validation, regulatory confrontation, and the birth of a new financial layer...

IBM tops blockchain patent count with 1,500+

Patent filings for blockchain computing infrastructure cluster among a handful of firms that treated the technology as a platform, not a currency. Alibaba Group ranked as the single largest filer...