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Web3 in SaaS Clothing

Tom Tunguz

Web3 has created novel technologies that custody data, enable faster & more secure ways of moving money, guarantee provenance, & enable proofs of many things (identity, funds, insurance, presence to name a few). But web3-to-web2 sales must be the future for companies to scale.

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

Tom Tunguz

Those ecosystems thrived because they offered large-scale, inexpensive distribution. Data collectors/sellers would be paid seamlessly with each use. Obstacles exist: Blockchain transaction costs are real, but fees will fall over time. Marketers can’t do that today in crypto. They are digital MiracleGro.

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The Future of Security Compliance: How Emerging Technologies are Setting New Rules

Scytale

However, at the same time, the use of emerging technology raises significant concerns about security, privacy, and data protection. This raises the question: Is implementing emerging tech simply a case of keeping up with competitors while scaling business operations, or does it truly hold profound GRC benefits?

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Kadena launches a hybrid platform to connect public, private blockchains

IT World

Brooklyn-based spinoff Kadena has launched a hybrid blockchain that can scale horizontally, enabling multiple electronic ledgers to talk to each other via smart contracts – and letting users transfer cryptocurrency between the chains.

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Five Predictions for 2022

Tom Tunguz

Data companies continue to achieve astronomical growth. Software engineering best practices have begun to infuse data: data observability, specialization of different ETL layers, data exploration, and data security all thrived in 2021 and will continue as users stuff more data into databases and data lakehouses.

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Kadena launches Chainweb, a hybrid platform to connect public, private blockchains

IT World

Brooklyn-based startup Kadena has launched a hybrid blockchain that can scale horizontally, enabling multiple electronic ledgers to talk to each other via smart contracts – and letting users transfer cryptocurrency between the chains.

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7 Predictions for SaaS in 2018

Tom Tunguz

The scale is enormous. Several landscape altering SaaS acquisitions will come to fruition because of cash availability from repatriation and because there are enough public SaaS companies at scale to add material revenue and market cap to buyers. Blockchain in the enterprise takes the reign as the buzzword for 2018.