Digital assets are a transformative innovation on par with the internet, cars, and electricity. They are likely to be the building blocks of a new large digital network that moves money and assets, and that network is open for anyone in the world to use. …

Messari’s comprehensive H1 2022 Crypto Fundraising Report created in collaboration with the Dove Metrics team. This report is based on the 1,199 rounds tracked over the past six months across Web3, DeFi, CeFi, Infrastructure, and NFTs. …

The creator economy, emerging online trends, and new crypto economies are pioneering more opportunities for creators to capitalize. Various platforms, protocols, and digital marketplaces are all competing for the attention of users and the creativity they provide. …

In the near future, all companies will become crypto companies, complete with a “Connect wallet” button on their homepages. And web3 is how they’ll get there. This will happen for a few reasons. First and foremost, as more people enter the world of crypto, they’ll need a seamless way to…

In terms of industry progress towards a cloud scalable metaverse, no organization has come further than the U.S. Army. Their Synthetic Training Environment (STE) has been in development since 2017. …

Video games are big business. In 2022, they will have est. sales of $200 billion globally. Esports tournaments, with skilled pro gamers battling it out for big prizes, rocketed to $2 billion in total payouts. It’s not hard to imagine rookie and pro gamers making a living, grinding through notorious…

Venture capital firm Adreessen Horowitz (a16z) said it’s leading a whopping $50 million seed round for Gary Vaynerchuk’s NFT project, VeeFriends — marking a bright spot in a challenging funding landscape for digital asset-focused startups. Celebrity influencer and VaynerMedia CEO Gary Vaynerchuk, or Gary Vee, launched VeeFriends in May 2021. …

Drake Star Global Gaming Investment Report (H1 ‘22) 2022 has been the hottest year in gaming with staggering $107B+ in total deal value of 651 announced and/or closed deals in the first 6 month alone. 635 deals were announced during H1 with a $100B+ in disclosed total deal value. Unprecedented…

Summary: Metaverse, as an evolving paradigm of the next- generation Internet, aims to build a fully immersive, hyper spatiotemporal, and self-sustaining virtual shared space for humans to play, work, and socialize. Driven by recent advances in emerging technologies such as extended reality, artificial intelligence, and blockchain, metaverse is stepping from…