They say this is a Bear market but I’ve seen two announcements this week that actually mean more than any other #Web3 VC funding press release. (1) PayPal is finally offering a long-demanded feature that will let users move their crypto to external wallets and hardware devices. PayPal first launched…

and why Nike is going to win over Adidas, again. Do you know who really was a web3 and metaverse futurist? David Bowie. “Everybody has a voice” was the greeting on BowieNet in the late 1990s. Bowie’s plan was to offer worldwide Internet access including a few special perks for…

Metanomic acquires Intoolab, developers of the first Bayesian Network Artificial Intelligence Engine The acquisition will help developers create better video game economies and Web3 experiences through deep player insight and data analytics. [EDINBURGH, Scotland. 18th May 2022] Today, Metanomic (https://www.metanomic.net/) announces it has acquired Intoolab A.I (https://www.intoolab.com/) , a Bayesian Network Artificial Intelligence company, to expand and to improve data analysis and A.I across video games and Web3. …

“It’s better to be a pirate than join the Navy.” said Steve Jobs. “To live outside the law you must be honest.” sang Bob Dylan. They were both right just not in the way they imagined because these are applicable to where Web3 is heading. Why? Pirates of the 17th…

There was a time when the idea that a person could play a video game and earn some money while they did it was quite novel and exciting. In fact, most video gamers would have jumped at the opportunity to sell their hard-earned game assets on an open marketplace when…

I’m going to start this blog at the end: if you’ve launched a play-to-earn game with a token linked to an external crypto-exchange then you’ve already failed. The promise of play-and-earn (we use this term over play-to-earn because the latter is more or less a job and there’s no disconnection…

Our team originally came together to build a new play-and-earn MMO with a unique and highly complex game economy based on player-driven open markets that mirror the real world. ​ It quickly became apparent that the economic platform we were building for the game was an entire ecosystem that could support every…

Facebook’s vision of the metaverse has a real problem and it starts and ends with identity. Zuckerberg said during his announcements that Facebook employees have been using Workrooms for internal meetings for about six months. Almost a fifth of Facebook employees — nearly 10,000 — are now working on VR…

I picked up an academic troll last night on social media who was doggedly persistent in trying to get a hard and fast definition of what the metaverse is. It also triggered off my old foe, Imposter Syndrome, so I decided to write this in response. From Wikipedia, it has…