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Gas Gas Revolution

Tom Tunguz

As storage & compute became less expensive, the economic viability of new use cases became increasingly apparent & developers built software on the cloud. The same cost-reduction phenomenon is occurring with blockchains, though it’s not nearly as well publicized. The cost to save data to a blockchain is called gas.

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Web3 in SaaS Clothing

Tom Tunguz

The cloud (web2 software & infrastructure) has captured 40%+ of a $1.5t In that transition, web3 software & infrastructure companies will shed their language of wallets, blockchains, & tokens for terms most buyers understand : accounts, databases, & credits. annual spend on software.

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Salesforce announces NFT Cloud platform amid crypto concerns

IT World

Salesforce announced Wednesday that it has rolled out a closed pilot program for a new service called NFT Cloud, allowing users to mint and manage NFTs for brand engagement and marketing purposes, even as the wider crypto market continues to spiral.

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IBM brings blockchain to Red Hat OpenShift; adds ApacheDB for hybrid cloud customers

IT World

IBM continued its Red Hat and open-source integration work this week by adding Red Hat OpenShift support to its blockchain platform and bringing a Kubernetes Operator for Apache CouchDB along side its hybrid-cloud services offering. To read this article in full, please click here

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IBM brings blockchain to Red Hat OpenShift; adds Apache CouchDB for hybrid cloud customers

IT World

IBM continued its Red Hat and open-source integration work this week by adding Red Hat OpenShift support to its blockchain platform and bringing a Kubernetes Operator for Apache CouchDB along side its hybrid-cloud services offering. To read this article in full, please click here

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What's Better than a Cookie? A Wallet - How Crypto Will Revolutionize Marketing

Tom Tunguz

The wallet architecture also eliminates the opaque sea of intermediaries clouding the ad marketplace. Obstacles exist: Blockchain transaction costs are real, but fees will fall over time. The incumbent marketing hegemons aren’t prepared for this new world with limited knowledge of blockchains and systems architected for cookies.

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Which Categories of Seed Startups are Thriving? Which Aren't?

Tom Tunguz

Blockchain - another exponential curve that shows growth from 0 to 200 startups in eight years. Blockchain is clearly the category with the steepest slope. The world has moved on from MapReduce jobs and is reverting to other data sources that speak SQL natively or are cloud-native. Social Media - Facebook went public in 2012.