Where To Celebrate New Year’s Eve In The Metaverse

The metaverse is on-track to becoming the go-to medium for turning seemingly ‘physical’ events into more convenient and accessible ‘virtual’ ones. With this in mind, we’ve compiled a list of the most anticipated New Year’s Eve metaverse parties.

BMW To Add Blockchain Tech Into Its Operations & Customer Rewards

In an endeavor that’s exclusively for its Thai market, German car manufacturer BMW is harnessing the powers of blockchain technology in order to enhance its efficiency and consumer engagement.

Crypto Exchange Kraken Launches NFT Marketplace In Beta

Kraken, which currently sits as the world’s sixth-largest crypto exchange, has launched its new namesake NFT marketplace in beta. The platform launched with an offering of over 110 of the most popular NFT collections.

Neal Stephenson’s Lamina1 Launches Metaverse Funding Ecosystem

Three months after its genesis, ambitious open metaverse project ‘Lamina1’ has launched a web3 building fund called ‘Lamina1 Ecosystem Fund’ (L1EF).

Crypto Hardware Wallet Pioneer ‘Cypherock’ Raises $1 Million In Funding Round

A perennial issue of security within crypto’s relatively short lifespan is undoubtedly seed phrases- which, if you don’t know, are 12-24 word sequences that are generated at the genesis of a crypto wallet as a means of recovery.

Google Cloud Appoints Former BlockFi Exec To Spearhead Its Blockchain Innovations

After crypto platform BlockFi went bankrupt last month, its former executive Rishi Ramchandi has now been appointed as the leader of Google Cloud’s Web3 efforts.

World Cup Helps Onboard 585,000 Users Into The Sorare NFT Ecosystem

In wake of its latest A-list ambassador Lionel Messi lifting the World Cup, NFT sports card project Sorare has revealed that it recorded 585,000 new sign-ups since the launch of its free-to-play World Cup game ‘Global Cup 22’ on November 10th.

Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT Teases New ‘Jimmy the Monkey’ Lore

Shortly after appointing former Activision Blizzard President Daniel Alegre to lead its ‘The Otherside’ metaverse vision, Yuga Labs has now released new information regarding a ‘new chapter in the lore’ for the BAYC NFT ecosystem.

Polygon, Hi, and Mastercard Launch Personalized NFT Debit Card

Polygon, which has already cemented itself as one of the most active builders throughout the ongoing bear market, has partnered with neo-banking app Hi and Mastercard to launch the world’s first personalized NFT debit card.

Mercedes Disregards Crypto Slump By Filing For 5 NFT Trademarks

Per its recent filing of five metaverse and NFT-related trademark applications at the United States Patent and Trademark Office, Mercedes-Benz appears to be ignoring all signs of market bearishness by expanding its presence across the Web3 realm.

Yuga Labs Hires Activision Blizzard CEO To Bolster Its ‘The Otherside’ Metaverse Project

In a ploy to bolster its highly-anticipated metaverse project ‘The Otherside,’ NFT powerhouse Yuga Labs has hired former Activision Blizzard President and CEO Daniel Alegre as its new CEO (effective in the first half of 2023).

Amazon Prime’s ‘NFTMe’ Documentary Showcases Web3 To The Masses

With shows such as Netflix’s ‘Trust No One: The Hunt For The Crypto King’ exposing the undeniable perils of the Web3 world to the masses, the mainstream media platform is now releasing a Web3-exploring docu-series called ‘NFTMe’.

Reports Claims The ‘Sports Metaverse’ Could Hit $80 Billion Valuation By 2030

Resource platform ‘Web3 Studios’ has published a ‘Metaverse Sports Report’ which outlines the trajectory of Web3’s role in the sports industry. The report claims that by 2030 it could be valued at $80 billion.

Mocaverse- An NFT Project To Unite Animoca Brands’ Web3 Empire

The latest innovative iteration from the Hong-Kong based company, Animoca Brands, comes by way of a PFP collection of NFT called ‘Mocaverse’- a program that’s designed to ‘strengthen the company’s ecosystem of Web3 and metaverse-centric projects’.

Celebrity Tours Opens World’s-First Metaverse Cruise Liner Tour

Caribbean Royal Cruise subsidiary Celebrity Cruises has become the first cruise liner to offer a tour of its ship in the metaverse.

MetaMask Partners With PayPal To Add Seamless Ethereum Functionalities

In a landmark merge of two big-hitting centralized and decentralized entities, PayPal has partnered with leading Ethereum cryptocurrency wallet MetaMask to allow users to purchase and transfer ETH across its platform.

Magic Eden Launches Rewards Program For Loyal NFT Traders

As part of its shift in platform fees, leading Solana NFT marketplace Magic Eden is rolling out a reward program for its 10+ million monthly users.

Australia To Implement Crypto Regulation As Part Of Its ‘Modernized’ Financial System

In an effort to modernize its financial system, Australia’s Treasury is promising to establish a framework for licensing and regulating crypto services in 2023.

Music NFT Industry Remains Bullish As 2022 Comes To A Close

there’s one area of Web3 that’s failed to succumb from such downwards market pressure; music NFTs. The industry is already valued at a whopping $1.2 billion (approximately), where come 2032, it’s estimated to be worth around $4.24b.

Yuga Labs Faces Class Action Lawsuit Amid Illegitimate Celebrity Endorsements

Friday of last week saw a pair NFT investors file a class action lawsuit against Yuga Labs, with the claim being that the Web3 heavyweight has failed to disclose the alleged involvement of celebrity endorsements within the BAYC NFT collection.

Nick Knight Gives Exclusive Lowdown Into SHOWstudio’s ‘ikon-1’ NFT Launch

SHOWstudio, the fashion film platform founded by coveted multidiscipline image-maker Nick Knight, is all poised to launch its inaugural NFT collection ‘ikon-1’. Get the full lowdown on the inspiration behind the project in our exclusive interview.

Venture Capitalists Remain Bullish On Decentralized Gaming

Throughout the year’s 8+ months of market bearishness, decentralized gaming has proven itself as the most resilient industry of Web3 with big hitters pouring money into the $55+ billion industry in just the past few weeks (stat per Crypto.com).

Starbucks’ Web3 Reward Program ‘Odyssey’ Launches With ‘Unprecedented’ Demand

After first pledging its entrance into web3 back in April, coffee house giant Starbucks has finally launched its September-announced NFT reward program ‘Odyssey’.

November's NFT Market Goes Green For The First Time Since April

Despite incurring a whole array of long and short term sources of FUD, November’s NFT sales volume totaled $534 million, which is a 16% increase on October’s $460 million total (per data taken from CryptoSlam).

TIMEX Launch Exclusive Watches For Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT Holders

After recently dubbing itself as the ‘timekeepers of the metaverse’ when launching branded challenges on hit game Fortnite, luxury watchmaker TIMEX has now unveiled a line of 500 1/1 timepiece watches exclusively available for BAYC NFT holders.

5 Web3 Projects To Keep On Your Radar- Tips From Industry Maestro ‘Icemancrypto’

Renown NFT researcher & newest member of Blockster, ‘Icemancrypto' is known for ‘finding promising Web3 projects before the masses find out’. With his alpha insight, we’ve collaborated with Iceman to compile a list of 5 must-watch ‘Gem' projects.

Bullish ‘Stripe’ Debuts Crypto Onramp Tool For Web3 Business

Polar to the glaringly centralized ethos of its rival PayPal, global payments platform Stripe is embracing the powers of the blockchain by debuting a fiat-to-crypto widget for Web3 businesses.

Animoca Brands Announces $2 Billion Metaverse Investment Fund

Yat Siu, the CEO of Web3’s leading venture capital firm Animoca Brands, announced yesterday that the $6 billion-valued company is about to broaden its investment empire by way of a $2 billion investment fund called ‘Animoca Capital’.

Uniswap Celebrates New NFT Aggregator Tool Launch With $5 Million Airdrop

Five months after acquiring NFT marketplace aggregator Genie, leading decentralized exchange (DEX) Uniswap has now launched its own tool for compiling a broad range of NFT listings onto one interface.

Telegram Announces Plans To Develop Crypto Wallets & DEX

In the midst of crypto’s most momentous fiasco to date, widely popular and still-emerging encrypted messaging service Telegram has issued its intent to develop a trustless and decentralized alternative for its users to trade crypto on.

Mocopi: Sony’s Motion-Tracking Wearable Device

Earlier this week, Japanese tech heavyweight Sony announced the launch of its new wearable motion-tracking system ‘Mocopi’. The system is comprised of 6 colorful disc-shaped & wristwatch-sized sensors that are to be placed on user’s body. 

Porsche Accelerates Into NFTs With Owner-Driven 911 Collection

Luxury sports car manufacturer Porsche has entered the world of Web3 by way of its inaugural NFT project. The 7500 piece collection, which is set for launch in January 2023, will be based on one of its most iconic models, the Porsche 911.

Tyler Hobbs Showcases New ‘ioStream’ Works At Art Basel Miami

Off the back of his highly successful ‘Fidenza’ and ‘QQL’ generative art projects, digital art pioneer Tyler Hobbs is currently in attendance at ‘Art Basel Miami’ to showcase works from his latest project, ‘ioStream’.

Nexus Voyager: The Innovators Behind Web3’s Creator Economy

Nexus Voyagers, a one-stop NFT platform, is on a mission to innovate Web3’s new ‘creator economy’ to the greatest extent possible. To discuss the project's array of NFT creator-centric tools & ecosystem, we sat down with its Founder, Ben Yurcisin.

Deadmau5’s ‘Elynxir’ Metaverse To Launch Via NFT AR Scavenger Hunt Throughout Art Basel

Deadmau5 & DJ Richie Hawtin co-founded music metaverse platform, Pixelynx, will be launching its new ‘Elynxir’ game throughout Miami Art Week—a gamified augmented reality (AR) scavenger hunt called ‘Go Astral’.

Shaping The Future Of NFT Tickets - A Talk With SeatlabNFT Founder

Web3 event ticketing marketplace, SeatlabNFT, is on a mission to revolutionize the events industry by harnessing the powers of blockchain tech. To explore the project in the more depth, we spoke with the platform’s Co-Founder, Ryan Kenny.

Web3 And NFT Events At Miami Art Week And Art Basel

As already showcased through the likes of ‘The Gateway: A Web3 Metropolis’ and Metanoise’s Art Soirée, Art Basel Miami and the city’s surrounding ‘Art Week’ are set to host a whole array of Web3-centric events.

Unstoppable Domains SVP Gives Lowdown On Platform Features & Art Basel Events

With the interoperability and use cases of Web3 expanding by the day, a logical step in users’ metaverse journeys is to streamline their digital existence into one succinct identity.

Web3 Betting Exchange ‘BetDEX’ Launches With Zero Fees Throughout The World Cup

With the ongoing bear market prompting innovators to reshape NFT utility into something which extends beyond mere ‘floor price,’ developments in more-general blockchain technology use cases are also being pioneered.

‘Mext’ Platform To Host The 'Metaverse Fashion Summit’ With 25K Attendees

Metaverse building and events platform 'Mext' is continuing its long-running relationship with the 'Metaverse Fashion Council’ (MFC) through hosting its highly-anticipated ‘Metaverse Fashion Summit’.

Nick Knight’s ‘ikon-1’: Pioneering Fashionista 3D Avatars

The latest project on the block comes from legendary British photographer Nick Knight, who in partnership with his own award-winning fashion platform SHOWstudio, is releasing his first NFT project entitled ‘ikon-1’.

DJED- Cardano’s New Algorithmic Stablecoin

As part of its annual 3-day Summit, new kid on the NFT block Cardano has announced that it will be releasing its own algorithmic stablecoin in Q1 2023.

Phygital NFTs Grace High-Fashion’s ‘Bstroy x Givenchy’ Collection

Earlier this month saw luxury French fashion label Givenchy partner-up with Atlanta-founded streetwear brand Bstroy, to launch a collaborative phygital NFT collection for the SS 2023 season.

W1 Curates: Showcasing Digital Art To Nearly Half-Million People Per Day

The W1 Curates IRL studio is situated on London’s bustling Oxford Street, where through its revolutionary LED tech wrapped around Flannel’s flagship store, showcases digital art to nearly half a million people per day.

L’Oréal & Ready Player Me Bring Gaming-Inspired Hair & Makeup To Metaverse Avatars

Through its subsidiaries L’Oréal Professional and Maybelline, French personal care company L’Oréal is teaming up with Ready Player Me (RPM) to bring gaming-inspired hair and makeup to metaverse avatars.

Dcentralize: Building The 'One-Stop-Shop' Web3 Music Ecosystem

Dcentralize is building the first ‘one-stop-shop’ Web3 music ecosystem incorporating streaming services, live IRL & AR events, ticketing, an NFT marketplace, and an education and engagement launchpad for fans and artists.

Swagga: The Phygital Fashion Metaverse For Social Networking And E-Commerce

Upcoming Japanese metaverse ‘Swagga’ is on a mission to redefine digital fashion through the phygital convergence of fashion, amusement, social networking, and e-commerce.

'Ready Player Me' Demos AR Metaverse Avatar Using Meta Quest Pro

Interoperable metaverse avatar platform Ready Player Me (RPM) has demoed this week new tech which involves one of its fully animated avatars appearing in augmented reality (AR) using Meta’s new ‘Quest Pro’ virtual reality headset.

The Metaverse Fashion Council- Pioneering The Fashionista Standards of Web3

As exemplified by the array of digital fashion artists, wearables, and platforms that Web3 has birthed over the past few years, metaverse fashion is growing into a significant component of virtual living.

Web3 With a16z: Key Insights From Podcast With Chris Dixon, Sonal Chokshi & Punk6529

In a recent podcast entitled 'Web3 with a16z', Chris Dixon and Sonal Chokshi chat with Punk6529 and discuss some ideas that are being explored about all the unique utilities NFTs offer.

Using AI To Power Fashion-Tech ‘Intelligent Avatars’ In The Metaverse

With China serving as a world leader in AI technology & digital avatars, Anina Net shares her journey about how she's producing ‘intelligent avatars’ that can provide fashion insight & customer service for metaverse-goers.

‘Physically-Backed’ NFTs, A Concept That Doesn’t Care About The Crypto Winter

By leveraging the underpinning blockchain technology of digital collectibles, Web3 platform Courtyard, has built a cutting-edge infrastructure that allows physical collectibles to be owned and traded as NFTs.