Meta’s grand plans for the metaverse don’t really include Horizon Worlds. But it’s where Mark Zuckerberg goes to take “dead-eyed” selfies like the one he posted two weeks ago, which essentially broke the internet with so many people laughing and pouring scorn on the very...
Meta’s metaverse will be so inclusive that it will offer more than 1 quintillion ways to differentiate your Meta Avatar’s look. That’s 18 zeros, by the way. This is one of the takeaways from Meta’s “2022 Diversity Report,” issued on Tuesday (July 19) by the...
The biggest news in non-fungible tokens (NFTs) this week is that Instagram is launching a pilot allowing NFT owners to display — and hopefully help them sell — their digital collectables. While they have many potential uses, from distributing music to tokenizing bond offerings, NFTs...
Welcome to PYMNTS’ new weekly report on the metaverse, the biggest, hype-iest part of the crypto universe. So, what’s a metaverse? The short answer is an immersive, 3D, shared virtual experience where people can create avatars that act much like first-person gaming characters in a...
March 21, 2022
Bored Ape Yacht Club developer Yuga Labs may be the creator of the hottest NFT avatar collectable, but whether it has broad enough shoulders to turn the brand into a true memecoin remains to be seen. On March 17, the owners of the celebrity-powered non-fungible token line were each “airdropped” — given — 10,000 ApeCoins, […]
May 02, 2022
Crypto.com’s CRO Visa Cards will be undergoing some changes soon, with a reduction in rewards, a new rewards cap and the phasing out of some rewards, according to a company blog post published Sunday (May 1). Cardholders with an active 6-month stake from before May 1 this year will earn the same rewards at their […]
May 01, 2022
Yuga Labs, which makes the non-fungible tokens (NFTs) of the popular Bored Apes Yacht Club collection, is selling virtual land for its metaverse project Otherside, Bloomberg wrote Sunday (May 1)....
March 23, 2022
Yuga Labs, which created the Bored Apes Yacht Club (BAYC) NFT collection, has raised $450 million in a funding round that values the company at $4 billion. As Bloomberg News...
