Facebook’s centralized metaverse a threat to the decentralized ecosystem?
Facebook’s metaverse plans have caused discomfort in the crypto community, but there’s every reason to believe in a decentralized future for metaverses. Facebook has been planning its foray into the metaverse for some time now — possibly even several years. But it’s only recently that its ambitious expansion plans have catapulted the concept into mainstream headlines across the globe. Renaming the parent company to Meta was perhaps the biggest, boldest statement of intent the firm could make. Suddenly, major news outlets were awash with explainer articles, while finance websites have been....
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Should the Metaverse ever come into existence, blockchain technology and decentralization must be at the core of this innovation. In his monthly crypto tech column, Israeli serial entrepreneur Ariel Shapira covers emerging technologies within the crypto, decentralized finance (DeFi) and blockchain space, as well as their roles in shaping the economy of the 21st century.What’s in a name? A whole metaverse is what one could be led to believe when looking at the buzz around Facebook’s recent transformation into Meta. In reality, of course, there is more to the new name than that — there is....
87% of respondents said they would switch to full-time gaming in the metaverse if the pay is good. A survey of 1,000 United States consumers around growing interest in the metaverse has revealed some interesting results. In a survey commissioned by nonfungible token and metaverse infrastructure provider Advokate Group, 87% of respondents preferred a decentralized metaverse on a blockchain over some of the mega projects planned by tech giants. This became more evident when 77% of the respondents shared concerns over Facebook’s entry into the metaverse, especially since it owns users'....
Meta reportedly plans an integration to allow social media users to display their NFTs on Facebook and Instagram. Multinational tech conglomerate Meta is reportedly diving into nonfungible tokens (NFTs) by integrating a feature that will let users show off their NFTs on their Facebook and Instagram profiles. According to the report, Meta is currently working on prototypes that will allow users to mint collectible tokens.Meta is also discussing potentially launching a marketplace that allows the buying and selling of NFTs. However, while the news may excite millions of NFT enthusiasts that....
Thanks largely to Facebook’s recently announced ambitions and subsequent rebranding, metaverse has become THE investor buzzword of late 2021. Grayscale estimates that the metaverse could represent a $1 trillion market opportunity, while firms including Microsoft, Sony, and Samsung have all jumped on the bandwagon. Amid all the excitement about a potentially vast new growth industry, […]
Two crypto scam-related lawsuits stack up on top of Meta’s (Facebook’s new name) large pile. The allegations and the company’s reactions serve well to form an opinion about a possibly disastrous metaverse of our future. What We Now About Facebook’s Metaverse The metaverse aims to be a future virtual reality, a merger of social […]