Europe

/europe161

750M people across 50 countries, 200+ languages, 10.18M sq km. A rich tapestry of cultures, from the Arctic Circle to the Mediterranean.

Earlier this week, The Exploration Company announced its $160m Series B.

Here's an excerpt from the announcement:

"Only two companies currently provide cargo delivery to and from the International Space Station, and both are based in the United States. The Exploration Company, which operates out of Germany, France, and Italy, is looking to change that: It just closed a large funding round to further its mission of building Europe’s first reusable space capsule. "

https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/17/the-exploration-company-raises-160m-to-build-europes-answer-to-spacex-dragon/
Tomorrow @morpho is enabling the transferability of its token $MORPHO

A pioneer of onchain *aggregated* lending markets and with $2.6B deposits, Morpho is one of the leading DeFi protocols.

It is also made in Europe

https://www.pmayr.xyz/morpho-2/
starting a streak to revive this channel and show the FC community that Europe is not just a place for socialism and summer vacations
"This isn't about mimicking Silicon Valley. It’s about amplifying our unique European strengths: our diversity, our decentralized talent pool, and our unique startup hubs."

This is precisely it. For a long time. It's time to finally change this.

I signed. What about you?

h/t @agostbiro
https://www.eu-inc.org/
About a decade ago I was a board member of StartupDorf, an association of startups in Düsseldorf. Some of the most important challenges the startups had was a lack of access to funding, an overly complicated regulatory landscape due to not having a true single market in the EU, and the "death penalty" on "failure".
The other day I was listening to an interview with a digital business expert and founder from another EU country.
10 years have passed, nothing has really changed.
How would you overcome these challenges?
GM, I need recommendations for a Eurodance Playlist
Most of crypto regulation is focused on securties trade and derivatives and the use of crypto in crime. I think that's not good for us artists. So, I'm asking... 5 most intriguing answers get a 3 $OP reward.
Dobrota, Kotor Bay, Montenegro 🇲🇪
Some of the most impactful crypto projects and companies have come out of Europe. As a region, Europe has punched above its weight, especially when considering its relative importance in other areas of technology. I wrote some thoughts on why that's been the case

https://www.pmayr.xyz/europe-at-the-heart-of-crypto/
“With more open-source developers than America has, Europe is particularly well placed to make the most of this open-source ai wave. Yet its fragmented regulatory structure, riddled with inconsistent implementation, is hampering innovation and holding back developers.”

https://www.economist.com/by-invitation/2024/08/21/mark-zuckerberg-and-daniel-ek-on-why-europe-should-embrace-open-source-ai
Swing by if you're in London next week :)
TSMC will build its first European plant in Germany
Maybe the worst part of a Europe vacation lmao
Lots of discussion about freedom of speech over past couple days. So I asked chatgpt what the country with highest degree of freedom of speech was. Didn’t have 🇳🇴 on my radar tbh
gm Bergen 🇳🇴 anyone here?
train tickets should be onchain..
Crypto projects that came out of Europe:

France - Morpho, Ledger, Sorare

Portugal - Ethena

Germany - SAFE, Cowswap, Celestia

UK - Wintermute, Aave

Denmark - Maker

Switzerland - Curve

Norway - Dune

Ethereum and Lido are difficult to pin on one country, but out of Europe nonetheless