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Hamilton raises $1.7M to tokenize real-world assets on Bitcoin

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
January 20, 2025
4 min

Hamilton, a protocol specializing in tokenizing real-world assets (RWA) on Bitcoin, has raised a $1.7 million pre-seed funding round. It’s probably no accident it’s...

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TikTok shuts down in the U.S. (updated)

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
January 19, 2025
3 min

TikTok just ran out of tiktoks as the countdown ended for the app’s time in the U.S. In the early hours of January 19,...

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GDC reveals finalists for the 27th Independent Games Festival

Posted byby Rachel Kaser
January 17, 2025
3 min

The Game Developers Conference (GDC) this week announced the finalists for the Independent Games Festival’s awards event, which is part of the former’s conference....

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Gamer-focused Tilted social app raises $1.3M to save TikTok’s creator economy

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
January 17, 2025
6 min

TikTok might be going away soon in the U.S., but Tilted hopes to launch a gamer-focused social app on iOS to help save the...

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Matthew Ball explains what happened to the gaming boom and our chances for recovery | The DeanBeat

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
January 17, 2025
3 min

Matthew Ball, CEO of Epyllion and author of The Metaverse book, dropped 220 slides in an early access deck this week that explained what...

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Bitkraft Ventures hires Anuj Tandon to kick off game investments in India

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
January 17, 2025
11 min

Anuj Tandon has joined Bitkraft Ventures, a seed-stage investor for interactive media and games, as partner focused on the fast-growing Indian game market. Tandon...