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Tinkering with the Metaverse has become a trend among major brands and companies. This time, it has caught the attention of two of the largest automakers globally, Nissan and Toyota. On April 22, Japanese automakers Nissan and Toyota announced their entry into the Metaverse to offer new virtual experiences to their users, organizing digital events and building virtual customer service offices. According to the Japanese newspaper Nikkei Asia, both companies seek to innovate in...

The French president has been known for his ambition of making the country a “startup nation” that is friendly to new technologies and appealing to talents and capital. When campaigning for his second bid for the presidency, Emmanuel Macron expressed his favorable opinions toward Web 3.0 and the Metaverse while maintaining that regulation led by public authorities is necessary for ensuring the sector’s long-term success. Proud of the made-in-France crypto unicorns like Ledger...

The blockchain gaming platform Animoca Brands reportedly purchased the Aussie digital agency – Be Media. The latter will become the Australian marketing arm of Animoca, which plans to double down on its NFT and Metaverse endeavors. Animoca Bought Be Media The Hong Kong-based blockchain entity continues to spread its presence globally. According to a recent coverage, it completed the acquisition of the Australian digital agency – Be Media. Found in 2013, the Aussie company...

Metaverse games The Sandbox and FlickPlay have partnered to create an NFT collection interoperable between both games. The collectibles feature an anthropomorphic chameleon named Flicky, who wears various combinations of clothing. The First Physical-World NFT As reported by Reuters, some of the users that acquire Flicky will be able to use it as their Sandbox avatar. The Sandbox is a 3D virtual world where users can build assets and buy land on the Ethereum blockchain. Its...

The United Arab Emirates national carrier has announced that it will be launching collectible and utility-based NFTs, with the first project already underway. In an announcement on April 14, Emirates stated that it will be launching NFTs and “exciting experiences in the Metaverse” for its customers and employees. Sheikh Ahmed Al Maktoum, Emirates Chairman and Chief Executive, said that the region was already a leader in the digital economy: “Dubai and the UAE are blazing the...

Japanese gaming developer and publishing company, Bandai Namco, announced setting up a fund of 1 billion yen (or $7.9 million approx.) in 1 year and 3 billion yen ($23.8 million approx.) in 3 years to invest in upcoming gaming companies related to Web 3 and metaverse. Bandai Namco Entertainment 021 Fund According to the report, the startup investment fund, dubbed “Bandai Namco Entertainment 021 Fund,” will focus on blockchain companies in Japan as well as overseas in a bid to...

The private equity firm’s latest move demonstrates that traditional investment firms have started buying Web.3.0 projects as part of their investment thesis. A growing interest in a decentralized internet built on blockchain networks continues to incentivize big money to bet on small and medium-sized crypto firms. Silver Lake, the tech investment firm managing over $90 Billion in assets, announced leading the $150 Million investment round for Genesis, an NFT avatar company....

Die Welt der Kryptowerte erlebt gerade ihre kambrische Artenexplosion. In einem Big Bang entstehen aus den wenigen bekannten Arten urplötzlich Tausende oder Zehntausende neue. Doch während sich die Artenentwicklung im erdgeschichtlichen Kambrium über zehn Millionen Jahre erstreckte, geschieht es im Kryptoversum binnen Monaten. Eine Einordnung von Hartmut Giesen, Krypto-Experte der Hamburger Sutor Bank: Am 3. Januar 2009 betrat der Bitcoin die Bühne. Dieser erste blieb eine Weile der einzige...

Zilliqa – a scalability-focused DeFi blockchain – is seeing its cryptocurrency skyrocket leading up to the Metapolis launch this month. ZIL is up nearly 5X over the last two weeks, rising from $0.041 to $0.2 as of Friday. Zillqa leverages a layer 2 scaling solution known as “sharding”, which partitions a blockchain network into “shards” to spread out transaction workload. This method is currently being tested by Ethereum. Meanwhile, Metapolis is a metaverse-as-a-service...

In a major push to web3 browsing experience, Opera will now support eight leading blockchain and layer-2 networks, as well as some decentralized apps (dapps). These include Solana, Polygon, StarkEx, Ronin, Celo, Nervos, and IXO.  Opera’s Web3 Push Opera users can access these networks and their various features, including Defi, through Opera’s latest web3 browsing and wallet solutions.  “From now on, users get access to the vast ecosystem of Polygon or Solana dApps or the...