| Date | Title | Description |
| 12.07.2021 | We Should Sign On to the Web, Not to Websites | I recently moved. This means I've needed to go into a bunch of different accounts and update my physical address. This has involved a lot of bouncing around in my password manager and the odd reset for accounts I hadn't properly logged.
It'... |
| 07.12.2020 | Blockstack Says its Token is No Longer a Security as it is Sufficiently Decentralized | Blockstack, a digital asset issuer that pursued a Reg A+ offering for its tokens (STX), believes the token is sufficiently decentralized to no longer be considered a security, according to a memo drafted by Blockstack’s lawyers.
Blockstack ... |
| 07.12.2020 | Blockstack's Stacks Tokens Could Be Tradable in US Amid New Blockchain Launch | With the launch of a new blockchain – Stacks 2.0 – earlier next year, Blockstack PBC's cryptocurrency Stacks token (STX) could be available to investors in the U.S. once it is no longer considered a security under U.S. Securities and Exchan... |
| 05.12.2020 | Will Hiro Systems And INX Be Followed By Other Crypto Token Offerings At The SEC? | The Securities and Exchange Commission has rolled out its new office dedicated to blockchain and digital assets just as Chairman Jay Clayton prepares to leave at the end of the year. However, Clayton has come under fire during his tenure fr... |
| 28.04.2020 | Blockstack Pledges to Enforce Patents for 'Defensive Purposes' Only | Blockstack, the firm building a decentralized backbone for Web 3.0, is open sourcing its patents – kinda.
CEO Muneeb Ali told CoinDesk his firm plans to enforce its patents “for defensive purposes only,” a pledge that could allow independen... |
| 23.04.2020 | Blockstack Opens Testnet for New Bitcoin-Linked Consensus Mechanism | Blockstack is ready to let people try out its new consensus mechanism.
Announced Thursday, the Blockstack testnet is open. Developers can now simulate the Stacks blockchain's new, hybrid consensus mechanism, which Blockstack calls Proof-of-... |
| 01.04.2020 | Blockstack Wins Patent for Its Dapp Single Sign-On Product | Blockstack, the control-your-data decentralized web developer, has patented the process behind its single sign-on for every dapp system, Blockstack Auth.
The patent covers Blockstack’s method for cryptographically signing into dapps with a ... |
| 14.02.2020 | Bitcoin (BTC) Maximalist Tone Vays Brings Up IOTA Hack to Make Case Against Ethereum (ETH) | Contents Switching off the network Plasma vs. Lightning Blockstack pauses app mining
Former Wall Street trader and Bitcoin maximalist Tone Vays, who famously predicted that the BTC dominance could reach 98 percent, recently provided the rec... |
| 06.02.2020 | Blockstack's New Consensus Mechanism Creates New Use Case for Bitcoin | Blockstack is giving its long-term holders a new way to earn bitcoin.
Announced Thursday, the decentralized-web startup is rolling out a consensus mechanism that essentially presents a fresh use case for the world's most popular cryptocurre... |
| 31.01.2020 | Did Blockstack PBC Really Reach 1 Million Verified Users as it Claimed? | Blockchain-based project, Blockstack, has been at the center of some controversy after it announced earlier this week that it has successfully achieved Milestone 2, a crucial mark that would enable the project to unlock approximately $6.8 m... |
| 30.11.2019 | Video Of The Week: Crypto Singularity | This is a talk that Muneeb Ali, co-founder and CEO of our portfolio company Blockstack, gave at their “Can’t Be Evil” summit last month in the bay area. |
| 24.09.2019 | This Dapp Shows How Blockstack and Ethereum Are Different | The Blockstack file-sharing dapp Envelop, which works a little like WeTransfer but with encrypted storage via the blockchain platform, just launched a browser extension for Chrome, Firefox and Opera.
Now desktop Blockstack users can simply ... |
| 11.09.2019 | First-Ever SEC-Qualified Token Offering in US Raises $23 Million | Blockstack PBC, a decentralized computing network, announced that it managed to raise more than $23 million in the first-ever U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)-approved token offering.Participation from U.S. retail investors
Mun... |
| 10.09.2019 | Blockstack's Regulated Token Offerings Raise $23 Million | Blockstack has raised more than $20 million in a token sale approved by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the company announced Tuesday.
In a blog post
, Blockstack co-founder Muneeb Ali wrote that the company's Reg A+ compliant ... |
| 10.09.2019 | Blockstack Reports $23 Million Raised in First Reg A+ Token Offering | Blockstack, the first token issuer to have a Form 1-A approved by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has raised $23 million in their offering which included funds raised under Reg S for international investors. The final tally was... |
| 21.07.2019 | Is Web 3.0 the next lifestyle brand? | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
I am starting to wonder if choosing a blockchain ... |
| 21.07.2019 | Is Web 3.0 the next lifestyle brand? | I am starting to wonder if choosing a blockchain or a Web 3.0 approach is as much a lifestyle choice as a technological choice.
Leaving aside the naming challenge (are we calling this blockchain, crypto, or Web 3.0?), I think it represents ... |
| 11.07.2019 | SEC approves 1st consumer RegA+ token Props for cross-app rewards | After cracking down on ICOs, the SEC just okayed the first two RegA+ tokens that offer an alternative way for anyone to gain a financial stake in a company, even unaccredited investors. Blockstack got approved for a $28 million digital toke... |
| 11.04.2019 | A Registered Token Offering | Our portfolio company Blockstack tweeted out this today:
After rounds of private comments, we’ve publicly filed for a $50M token offering with the SEC.
Upon qualification, our network and the Stacks tokens will be available to retail invest... |
| 11.04.2019 | Blockstack To Raise $50 Million Via SEC’s Regulation A+ Framework | Decentralized blockchain startup, Blockstack, announced in a press release today that it has filed an offering statement with the U.S SEC to raise a $50 million capital through a token sale, which supposedly will leverage the SEC’s Regulati... |
| 26.01.2019 | Video Of The Week: From Agile To Immutable | Two weeks ago, my colleague Nick traveled to Hong Kong to attend a Blockstack event (Blockstack is a USV portfolio company) and deliver this talk, which covers some important questions/issues in the crypto sector.
This short tweetstorm sets... |
| 06.01.2019 | The YKarma experiment | Blockchains are boring now. It’s been ten years since Bitcoin launched, and cryptocurrencies have almost exclusively been used to recapitulate existing monetary systems in slightly new forms. This is boring. Programmable currencies give us ... |
| 07.10.2018 | I’m very sorry, but you’re going to have to learn to love the blockchain | I apologize. I get it. You hear “blockchain” and you immediately think “shady get-rich-quick schemes” or “bubble of magical fake Internet money” or “libertarian enfants terribles,” and when a true believer tries to explain to you why you sh... |
| 05.09.2018 | Stealthy wants to become the WeChat of blockchain apps | Meet Stealthy a new messaging app that leverages Blockstack’s decentralized application platform to build a messaging app. The company is participating in TechCrunch’s Startup Battlefield at Disrupt SF and launching its app on iOS and Andro... |
| 25.07.2018 | Blockchains for biomedicine and health care are coming. Buyer: be informed | In a First Opinion piece on how blockchain technologies could affect health care and the life sciences, its landscape map included 48 projects covering areas like decentralized health records and data marketplaces. Just six months later, th... |
| 29.05.2018 | Meet Shyam Kamadolli, Managing Partner at AVG Blockchain Fund | Venture capitalist who says his industry was the first to be disrupted by blockchain technology
As entrepreneurship has become a global meme, with the title of "Founder" worn like a badge of accomplishment, there's no shortage of ... |
| 17.05.2018 | What's Going On? | A lot, to be honest. It’s Crypto Week in NYC this week.
The last two weeks have been a blur, with so many things happening that I can’t keep up or write about all of them.
But, here are a few
1/ The Rockets ended the sweep nonsense talk goi... |
| 11.04.2018 | Dapps | A friend asked me at breakfast this week “what gets you excited in crypto these days?”
I answered “Dapps.”
If the second half of 2016 and all of 2017 was about raising capital to fund development efforts (and speculating on all of that), th... |
| 01.04.2018 | USV Thesis 3.0 | The commitment to a thesis is part of the fiber of USV–a shared set of ideas creates a framework that allows us to operate with focus and work on what matters most to our team. But what that thesis is has evolved over time and will continue... |
| 25.03.2018 | Towards a world without Facebook | Dear blockchain people: this is your hour. Abandon your transparently greedy get-rich-quick schemes, turn away from your casinos of de-facto modern-day penny stocks, and focus your decentralized attention on what the world needs. Save us, O... |
| 13.03.2018 | The Decentralized Future Series: A New Age of Investing | Alex Shelkovnikov is a co-founder of Semantic Ventures, a venture capital firm supporting relentless builders of the new decentralized economy. Prior to that Alex led investments at Deloitte Ventures and Deloitte’s blockchain business in th... |
| 05.03.2018 | Blockstack announces another token sale – this time open to all investors | Decentralised infrastructure builder Blockstack is doing another token sale, this time open to all investors, not just accredited ones with a high net worth.
A statement said that by developing a legal and financial framework to enable anyo... |
| 24.02.2018 | Video Of The Week: How To Emerge From The Internet Dark Ages | In this talk, Muneeb Ali, founder of our portfolio company Blockstack, calls the period we are in right now “the dark ages of the Internet” and explains why he sees it that way.
He goes on to talk about how we can emerge from this period.... |
| 18.01.2018 | Bitcoin, Blockchain, and ICOs: What You Need to Know | One of the offshoots of CES this year was a CoinAgenda event. It was attended by over 1,000 folks paying about $1,000 each to hear and learn about Bitcoin and blockchain startups, and judge a variety of ICOs (Initial Coin Offerings). Bitcoi... |
| 07.01.2018 | The cryptocurrency bubble is strangling innovation | Sure, fine, maybe it’s a bubble. OK it’s definitely a bubble, but that’s a good thing, a bubble brings attention and investment in infrastructure, which breeds real innovation. Right? Look at the dot-com boom. A lot of people lost a whole l... |
| 27.12.2017 | Is Blockchain Technology The New Internet? | Share
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Is blockchain technology the new internet? This is a question that you should be asking yourself considering the near universal applicability of blockchain technology. Both public institutions and private compa... |
| 04.12.2017 | Blockstack raises $52 million to build a parallel internet where you own all your data | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Blockchain startup Blockstack says it raised $52.... |
| 04.12.2017 | Blockstack raises $52 million to build a parallel internet where you own all your data | Blockchain startup Blockstack says it raised $52.8 million in its ICO, finalized Friday. The company is building a sort of parallel to the internet that users access via the Blockstack browser and that features a wide variety of apps. The B... |
| 06.11.2017 | Onename to Blockstack | Our portfolio company Blockstack, which was the subject of a video I posted here last week, started out as Onename.
Onename is a distributed identity system, kind of like Facebook Auth, built on the blockchain.
I wrote about Onename a few t... |
| 26.10.2017 | Blockstack - A New Decentralized Internet | Our portfolio company Blockstack is building a development platform for decentralized applications built on top of the blockchain.
This video explains what they are doing and they just published a whitepaper outlining how their token works ... |
| 09.09.2017 | How blockchain will finally convert you: Control over your own data | In the past few years, blockchain has developed an unrivaled reputation as the next big thing for the decentralized internet. Startups have absorbed billions of dollars from traditional funding and token sales to develop software and proof-... |
| 26.08.2017 | Want blockchain success? Developers, developers, developers | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
There is a classic video of Steve Ballmer at a Mi... |
| 26.08.2017 | Want blockchain success? Developers, developers, developers | There is a classic video of Steve Ballmer at a Microsoft company meeting going absolutely crazy, covered in sweat, screaming “Developers! Developers! Developers!”
Many will say Ballmer did not do much right while he was CEO, but he did unde... |
| 16.08.2017 | Blockstack announces $25 million fund to rebuild the internet for a blockchain world | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Blockchain startup Blockstack is out to build a d... |
| 16.08.2017 | ICO Meets VC: Blockstack Raises $25 Million for Decentralized Internet Fund | While initial coin offerings (ICOs) have fast become the breakout method for blockchain fundraising, at least one industry startup thinks there's still a place for traditional venture capital in this new economic movement.
Today, New York-b... |
| 16.08.2017 | Blockstack announces $25 million fund to rebuild the internet for a blockchain world | Blockchain startup Blockstack is out to build a decentralized version of the internet, where users own their own data and apps live locally on your device. The idea is to free users from security breaches, platform lock-in, and a loss of co... |
| 16.07.2017 | New models for quality journalism, from Wikitribune to crypto tokens | Christian Catalini Contributor
Christian Catalini is the Fred Kayne (1960) Career Development Professor of Entrepreneurship Assistant Professor of Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management at the MIT School of Man... |
| 18.06.2017 | Why blockchains fail and decentralization succeeds | With all of the excitement around blockchain technology, it’s easy to think what we have now is the foundation for the next wave.
Yet, it’s worth remembering we are still in the early stages. The blockchains we have today probably won’t be ... |
| 28.05.2017 | Blockchains are the new Linux, not the new internet | Cryptocurrencies are booming beyond belief. Bitcoin is up sevenfold, to $2,500, in the last year. Three weeks ago the redoubtable Vinay Gupta, who led Ethereum’s initial release, published an essay entitled “What Does Ether At $100 Mean?” S... |
| 27.05.2017 | This was a big week for blockchain | I just spent four days at two of the most important conferences in the emerging blockchain/crypto-currency space.
One was Consensus. The other Token Summit.
I had about 100 conversations with people who are at the epicenter of the blockchai... |
| 23.05.2017 | Blockstack Browser and Token | Today Muneeb and Ryan from Blockstack delivered the morning keynote at the Consensus 2017 conference here in New York. They made two important announcements: first the availability of the developer edition of the Blockstack Browser and seco... |
| 23.05.2017 | Blockstack - A New Internet | The founders of our portfolio company Blockstack are ambitious.
What they have built and are announcing today is effectively a new Internet, powered by the blockchain.
This is what the Blockstack team is after:
A new internet needs to have ... |
| 02.04.2017 | How to profit from the blockchain tech stack | If someone came to you in 1992 and said, “Hey, there’s this thing called the Internet. Let me explain how billions and billions of dollars of value are going to be created in entirely new business models,” how would you have reacted? Well, ... |
| 18.01.2017 | The Blockchain is Still Waiting for Its Web. Here's a Blueprint | William Mougayar is the author of "The Business Blockchain" and a board advisor to, and investor in, various blockchain projects and startups (see: disclosures).
In this opinion piece, Mougayar examines what it would take to intro... |
| 09.01.2017 | Blockstack Raises $4M in Funding | Blockstack, Inc., a NYC-based decentralized Internet and developer platform for server-less apps, raised $4M in funding.
The round was led by Union Square Ventures, with participation from Lux Capital, Naval Ravikant, Digital Currency Group... |
| 06.01.2017 | Blockstack Funding | Walter Isaacson from the Aspen Institute (and author of the Steve Jobs biography) recently wrote a post titled “The internet is broken. Starting from scratch, here’s how I’d fix it.” His core contention is that the Internet at present lacks... |
| 05.01.2017 | Blockstack, formerly called Onename, just raised $4 million | Blockstack, a three-year-old, New York-based decentralized Internet and developer platform for secure, serverless apps, has raised $4 million in new funding led by earlier investor Union Square Ventures. Other investors in the round include... |
| 23.12.2016 | Fixing The Internet | Walter Isaacson wrote a blog post last week suggesting that the Internet is broken and outlining how he would fix it. I think that most of his suggestions are currently being built using blockchain technologies. Here is his list (in italics... |
| 29.10.2016 | Zcash, Blockstack, and appcoins, oh my! | Jon Evans Contributor
Jon Evans is the CTO of the engineering consultancy HappyFunCorp; the award-winning author of six novels, one graphic novel, and a book of travel writing; and TechCrunch's weekend columnist since 2010.
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| 27.09.2016 | A Second Internet, Coming Soon, Courtesy of the Blockchain | Muneeb Ali speaks at TEDxNewYork 2016 – Down the Rabbit Hole, September 10, 2016, at the SVA Theatre. Dian Lofton, used by permission
A lot of weird stuff has been happening to data inside the internet’s walled gardens. It has been getting ... |
| 23.07.2016 | Bitcoin: The Trust Anchor in a Sea of Blockchains | Bitcoin has a number of properties that give it utility (and thus value) such as trustlessness, permissionlessness, transparency, and immutability.
When you broaden your perspective of bitcoin from a currency and payment system to that of a... |
| 05.07.2016 | At W3C Event, Industry Seeks to Weave Blockchains into New Web | Armed with sky-high expectations and seemingly boundless enthusiasm for how tech could reinvent industry in the digital age, the "blockchain" industry has been overwhelmed with blockchains.
Not only are there multiple open public ... |
| 28.05.2016 | A Framework for Identity | Dan Elitzer is a member of the IDEO coLAB, a shared platform to discover and act on the potential of new technologies, with current focuses on blockchain, digital identity, and IoT.
In this op-ed, Elitzer fleshes out a framework for how a d... |
