Industry experts explain how the Ethereum Merge will impact enterprise adoption for business use cases. A recent report from the Ethereum Enterprise Alliance (EEA) highlights how the Ethereum ecosystem has matured to a point where the network can be used by businesses to solve real-world problems. From supply chain management use cases to payment solutions…
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Phil Spencer, head of the Xbox brand, believes that the metaverse has been with us since 30 years ago, when digital gaming was largely introduced. However, Spencer criticized play-to-earn (P2E) models, stating that they create a workforce out of a kind of gamer who needs to monetize the time spent playing. Xbox Boss Phil Spencer…
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Phil Spencer argues that “gamers have been in the Metaverse for 30 years” as games already offer 3D shared worlds for people to communicate in. Phil Spencer, the head of Microsoft’s gaming company Xbox is optimistic about the Metaverse but remains “cautious” about play-to-earn (P2E) crypto games due to its economic and speculative aspects. Speaking…
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PRESS RELEASE. In what many would agree is a groundbreaking achievement, StarHeroes recently obtained a Microsoft grant. As a result, the blockchain-based game now has access to Azure PlayFab, joining the legendary collection of games such as Forza Horizon, Sea of Thieves, and Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege.
This grant is also indicative of…
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Meta joined Alphabet and Microsoft in releasing disappointing quarterly financials, following the company’s Q2 earnings call. In a week of a disappointment for mega-cap stocks, the trio has all missed revenue and earnings expectations, with Meta seeing its first quarterly sales decline ever recorded. Economic Slowdown Due to the current global economic slowdown, markets had…
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Sergey Vasylchuk is the Co-founder & CEO of the staking provider Everstake. __________ Crypto winter, recession, or bear market are just a few of quite numerous monikers that the media uses to describe the current situation…. Read More: Our Company Survived a Crypto Winter and Will Do It Again: Here’s Our Survival Guide for Crypto…
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The popular sandbox video game Minecraft has banned non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and blockchain innovations from integrating with its platform. On the other hand, Japanese entertainment conglomerate Square Enix has announced its NFT project. Mojang Studios, the Microsoft-owned developer behind Minecraft, announced Wednesday that the studio would not support NFTs and other blockchain innovations, citing fraud…
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Tencent, the Chinese technology and entertainment giant, announced the creation of its own metaverse-driven division. The division, named the extended reality unit, will be the one tasked with encompassing all metaverse-driven efforts, including hardware and software developments. According to reports, the company aims to employ over 300 in this unit, with Tencent giving it big…
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Meta, Microsoft, and 31 more companies have united to form an organization to promote the creation of open standards regarding metaverse tech. The institution, named the Metaverse Standards Forum, will focus on establishing standards to make each one of the metaverses on the internet interoperable, which would ideally permit these worlds to communicate.
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Ethereum Co-Founder Vitalik Buterin Criticizes Corporate Metaverse Attempts — ‘Anything Facebook Creates Now Will Misfire’
On Saturday, the co-founder of Ethereum, Vitalik Buterin, took to Twitter and gave his perspective on the “existing corporate attempts to create the metaverse.” Buterin noted that a metaverse will happen, but he doesnt believe the current corporate metaverse attempts are going anywhere. Ethereum’s Vitalik Buterin Shares His Thoughts on Existing Corporate Metaverse Attempts …
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