Metaverse
Bollywood Icon’s Tax Bill; Metaverse Fashion Week Opens
China’s ZTE registers metaverse trademarks. Indian superstar Amitabh Bachchan chased over NFT tax. Decentraland offers a glimpse into the future of fashion at its Metaverse Fashion Week. We’ll have more on those stories and other news shaping the cryptocurrency and blockchain world in this episode of “The Daily Forkast.”
Qualcomm Sets Up $100M Fund for Metaverse Investments
The fund will target developers building immersive extended reality (XR) experiences in areas such as gaming, health, education and entertainment.
SportsIcon to Open Metaverse Where Athletes Can Interact With Fans
A public land sale for Sports Metaverse will take place in June, when it officially goes live.
Location, Location, Location: Investing in Real Estate in the Metaverse
Imagine a world in which your virtual backyard has a higher property value than the green, grassy lawn outside your real-life back door.
Animoca, Coinbase Ventures Back $5M Seed Round for Metaverse Gaming Studio Block Tackle
The studio’s first release will be SkateX, where players can buy their own skateboard NFTs and vote on decisions about the game.
Ultiverse to Expand Metaverse Offerings in BNB Chain Ecosystem With $4.5M Raise
The round was co-led by Binance Labs and DeFiance, a Three Arrows Capital platform fund.
MetaMask Founding Architect Joe Diez Launches New Project MetaMetaVerse
Joe Diez, a founding architect for Ethereum wallet MetaMask, has ended his “crypto retirement” for a new project called MetaMetaverse, which aims to be the most interoperable metaverse to date.
A MetaMask Founding Architect Is Building an Interoperable ‘MetaMetaverse’
The cube-based virtual landscape is aiming to be the most interoperable metaverse to date, featuring its own programming language and parallel dimension mapping.
HSBC Enters the Sandbox Metaverse; NFTs Coming to Instagram
Do banks have a place in the metaverse? HSBC is the first global bank to buy a plot of land in the Sandbox metaverse, which it will develop to engage with e-sports and gaming fans. "HSBC has recognized where the market is," CoinDesk Managing Editor Christie Harkin says, adding that nobody wants a bank in the digital world. Plus, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says NFTs are coming soon to Instagram. "The Hash" crew discusses the flood of institutions in the metaverse and the inevitability of NFTs on the social network.
