Here are the top web3 stories from this week. Legal SEC Takes Action Against NFT Project ⚖️ NFT project Stone Cats had previously raised $8MM to fund an animated TV show with actors Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher leading the project. This week, they settled with the SEC and paid…

Our Diverse Web3 Builders series features Black, Latinx, and Women founders who are creating startups in the web3 space. On this episode we have Monte Applewhite from GoSayHELLO, a web3-enabled startup that allows their users to discover nearby people, businesses, and events with similar interests within a minute’s walk. Monte…

Here are the top web3 stories from this week. Legal Government Actions and Lawsuits ⚖️ Collapsed Thoedex Crypto exchange leader gets 11,000 year prison sentence in Turkey for $2Bn failure. Another FTX exec pleads guilty. The CFTC charges three DeFi groups with AML violations. Bankrupt DeFi lender Genesis sues its…

Here are the top web3 stories from this week. Legal Challenges Continue in Crypto ⚖️ Popular meme coin Pepe had $15MM stolen from their treasury by former team members. The SEC settled charges with NFT media company Impact Theory with a $6MM fine for selling NFTs to individuals and making…

Vandale Callender and Christopher Powell are the co-founders of Project Pi. This is our first time speaking with a co-founder team on Diverse Web3 Builders. The pair is building a pioneering blockchain node infrastructure company. Vandale studied computer science at Georgia State University. Vandale found blockchain through gaming back in…

Web3 Social Popping Off 😊 There is a new star app in the web3 ecosystem called Friend.Tech. It was launched two weeks ago and has rapidly hit 100K+ users. The basic concept is that users buys “keys” that function like shares (the original name) in our users. The price of…

Here are the top web3 stories from this week. Products Coinbase Bringing Crypto Futures 🚀 Coinbase is still fighting with the SEC, but the CFTC approved their Crypto futures program this week. Helium started a $5/mo mobile phone network on blockchain rails. Mobile phone gaming giant Zynga launched their first…

For years with Beyond The Game Network, we’ve talked about how athletes make great entrepreneurs. Today on the Diverse Web3 Builders podcast, I interview Jordan Harold from Blackchain — a new Layer 1 blockchain to support the Black community. Jordan discussed how his experience with football instilled him with discipline…

Here are the top web3 stories from this week. Products PayPal Bringing a Stablecoin, but X Won’t 🚀 PayPal is launching a stablecoin token. Musk’s X is going the other way, saying no token is coming for the former Twitter app. A partnership was announced between Microsoft and the Aptos…