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MetaWeb Ventures raises $30M for builder focused blockchain fund

MetaWeb Ventures, a global venture capital firm focused on pre-seed and seed investments in crypto start-ups, announced Thursday the launch of its first fund (Fund I), with total capital commitments of $30 million.

Malaysia’s Exabytes partners with China’s Huawei Cloud to provide cloud-first smart solutions

Malaysia-based all-in-one business cloud, digital, and e-commerce solutions provider Exabytes said Monday it continues to expand its capabilities by establishing a partnership with Huawei Technologies (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd (Huawei Malaysia), offering cloud infrastructure-platform-and-software-as-a-service (IaaS, PaaS and SaaS) systems to boost the digital…

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China’s Xinghuo BIF and Malaysia’s Zetrix jointly introduce Web3 Services

China's Xinghuo Blockchain Infrastructure and Facility (Xinghuo BIF) and Malaysia's Zetrix have jointly announced the introduction of blockchain-based identifiers (BID) / verifiable credentials (VC) and blockchain-based E-signing services to international markets.

China’s regulator denies conducting work on Jack Ma’s Ant IPO revival; Ant says no plan to initiate IPO

The CSRC, however, also said that it "supports qualified platform companies to list within China and overseas".

Climate tech startup Allinfra raises $6M in Series A funding round led by Nomura

Allinfra today announced the closing of its Series A funding round. Headquartered in Hong Kong, the company develops enterprise software designed to help institutions across a range of industries achieve their sustainability goals.

China’s EV maker NIO announces proposed secondary listing on Singapore Exchange

The company has received a conditional eligibility-to-list letter (ETL) from the Singapore Exchange Securities Trading Ltd on May 5, 2022.

Ant Group to become major shareholder of Singapore payment firm 2C2P

Singapore-based payments platform 2C2P and China-based FinTech firm Ant Group announced Monday a strategic partnership to accelerate digital payment adoption and innovation. The partnership, upon completion, will see Ant Group becoming the majority shareholder of 2C2P.

Malaysia-listed MYEG’s Zetrix blockchain to launch mainnet

Zetrix is the international extension of Xinghuo BIF, China’s largest national-level blockchain network supported by all levels of the Chinese government and running both governmental and commercial applications.