Animoca Brands, an Australia-based metaverse startup focused on NFTs and gaming, has raised $358.88 million in new funding round and is now valued at over $5 billion. Liberty City Ventures led the round, with several other investors participating, including Soros Fund Management, Sequoia China, 10T Holdings, Mirae Asset, Pacific Century Group,

Businesses today are struggling to leverage exploding volumes of data for competitive advantage. To meet that challenge, data engineers and data scientists are increasingly turning to emerging technologies in data science, artificial intelligence, machine learning and even deep learning to prepare and organize big data and develop the machine learning

As the crypto world continues to heat up, developers are clinging to the Ethereum network despite its general struggle to meet the stresses of a global network’s transaction load. To speed and cheapen transactions on Ethereum, developers are looking toward so-called Layer-2 (L2) blockchains, which build on the Ethereum network,