Coinbase-backed TruStory Shuts Down, Returning $3M
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Coinbase-backed TruStory Shuts Down, Returning $3M

THELOGICALINDIAN - The blockchainbased amusing media belvedere flourished during the ICO boom

TruStory, a blockchain activity aimed at crowdsourcing advantageous debate, has appear today that it’s shutting down. 

The CEO accepted the account via a blog column on the company’s Medium channel, citation authoritative challenges and a abridgement of bazaar readiness. 

TruStory emerged in aboriginal 2018 at the after end of the ICO boom

The company’s architect and CEO, Preethi Kasireddy, accustomed that the crypto arena was ample with affiliated wars and misinformation and developed TruStory as a agency of bringing some adjustment to the chaos.

The TruStory belvedere would allegedly accomplish as a reputation-focused amusing media platform. 

Crowdsourced acumen would actuate the authority of any accurate claim, with users adored in arrangement tokens for their bluntness and appropriately architecture their reputation.

The activity showed cogent aboriginal promise. At the time Kasireddy founded the project, she had accustomed an absorbing career history with acquaintance on the deals aggregation at Andreessen Horowitz and as a software architect at Coinbase. 

When she launched TruStory in 2018, the activity underwent a seed allotment round led by True Ventures, which admiring $3M from the brand of Coinbase Ventures, Pantera Capital and assorted advance firms and angels. 

The latest advertisement accepted that these funds would be alternate to their corresponding investors.

TruStory Tokenization “Too Hard”

In ablaze of its advantageous beginnings, the latest account that TruStory is shutting bottomward will acceptable appear as a abruptness to many. 

The blog column acknowledging the accommodation cites assorted reasons, with the authoritative ambiance about tokenization in the U.S. cited as actuality “too hard.”

It additionally credibility to the abridgement of all-important basement for the advanced administration of tokens and the actuality that the crypto markets are not yet ample abundant to accredit the activity to scale.

Although TruStory showed a lot of antecedent promise, it’s far from aberrant that projects founded during the ICO bang aeon go on to fail. An analysis appear aftermost year from Longhash, application abstracts aggregated from sites like CoinMarketCap and DeadCoins, estimates that about two-thirds of about 1,000 bootless cryptocurrency projects were alone or trading at near-zero volume.

However, a more contempo report states that 2019 had about 20 percent beneath failures than 2018, conceivably advertence that those projects that accept fabricated it this far now angle a bigger adventitious of enduring.

Advocacy accumulation urges authoritative clarity.

Coinbase Custody and Bison Trails accept abutting the Proof of Stake Alliance (POSA), an advancement accumulation for Proof of Stake (PoS) technology.

The POSA Welcomes Two New Members

Coinbase Custody and New York-based Bison Trails, a blockchain technology belvedere aggregation and one of the few remaining Libra Association members, accompany the brand of Tezos, the Interchain Foundation, and the Web3 Foundation in the alliance.

The aim of the accord is to brainwash authoritative and action stakeholders on Proof of Stake technology, an more arresting basic of the cryptocurrency and blockchain ecosystem.

As Sam Mcingvale, CEO of Coinbase Custody said on abutting the POSA:

“Proof of Stake is an more important addition that the crypto amplitude as a accomplished is rapidly trending toward. POSA is arena a analytical role by agreeable with assembly and regulators to brainwash them on arising POS technology. It’s our achievement that through the assignment of organizations like POSA, we’ll alpha to see allusive conversations and, in time, accuracy back it comes to POS and its applications.”

Proof of Stake Alliance Expansion Continues

The POSA was founded in 2024 and now includes about 20 affiliate organizations.

By captivation affiliate events, agreeable in beat to lawmakers, and advocating for tax accuracy and authoritative acquiescence about staking networks, the alignment afresh submitted affidavit to the Balance and Exchange Commission (SEC) analogue POSA’s assay on the estimation of balance law for validation relationships.

The accumulation has been arguing that adapted tax analysis of staking rewards is a all-important footfall for the technology to grow. Its two newest associates will accentuate its acceptation in the industry.

As POSA lath affiliate Matt Perona told reporters:

“As our newest members, Coinbase Custody and Bison Trails added validate the accent of our mission and the assignment of all our associates on the advanced curve as we abide to beforehand the Proof of Stake industry.”