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Finance

Animoca Brands Leads $130M Investment in Venture Accelerator Brinc for Web 3 Expansion

The funds will be used to lead Brinc’s expansion into DeFi and crypto gaming.

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Opinion

Get Ready for the 2022 Metaverse Real Estate Boom

It won’t be confined to Ethereum.

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Infinite Games: How Crypto Is ‘LARPing’

Crypto communities are playing a big series of “live action role playing games,” and they’re changing how we organize and interact across digital and physical spaces. This post is part of Crypto 2022: Culture Week.

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Finance

Metaverse Company InfiniteWorld to Go Public in $700M SPAC Merger

The stock will debut on the Nasdaq early next year.

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Finance

SK Square to Demand Metaverse Presence for Portfolio Companies: Report

The requirement marks a move into a new environment compared with the traditional investments of South Korea’s largest industry groups.

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Videos

Music Streaming Platform Audius Plans for Metaverse Radio Station

"DeFi Land," whose gameplay teaches gamers the concepts of decentralized finance (DeFi) through farming simulation, has teamed up with music streaming platform Audius to build a radio station in the metaverse. "The Hash" panel reacts to the latest fresh take on DeFi, possibly bringing the tokenized music model to the mainstream. 

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Finance

Metaverse Goes Hollywood With Universal Music Group Avatar Partnership

Avatar company Genies has inked a deal with UMG that could bring celebrity merch from Rihanna, Migos and more into virtual worlds.

Genies avatars of Quavo, Kim Petras, J Balvin and Lil Huddy. (Genies)

Videos

Sky Mavis CEO on Axie Infinity, Future of NFT Gaming in the Metaverse

Trung Nguyen, winner of CoinDesk’s Most Influential 2021 and co-founder of Sky Mavis, the game developer behind popular blockchain-based trading and battling game Axie Infinity, discusses what the future holds for “play-to-earn” NFT gaming in the metaverse. Plus, what’s next for Sky Mavis following a 3,000% year-over-year growth and $3 billion valuation.

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Markets

Why Metaverse Tokens Are Getting Hammered in Crypto’s Market Sell-Off

While the future of metaverse and gaming tokens looks bright, there’s little real adoption in the present, according to one analyst.

Un distrito comercial en el metaverso de Decentraland (Republic Realm)