CB Insights Report — 12 Tech Trends To Watch Closely In 2022 (Sept. 2022) 📍 2021 was a year of turmoil. Between the Covid-19 vaccine rollout, lockdowns and a sharpening focus on next-gen innovation, companies across industries increasingly turned to tech for new answers — and new challenges. …

How to Choose the Right Legal Jurisdiction to Register a Play-2-Earn (p2e) Game Development/Publishing Company 📍 When choosing the “home” for the legal registration of a p2e game, there are a few aspects to consider: 📍 The game should have the ability to receive crypto and fiat payments. In some…

As brands rush to stake their claim in the internet’s new frontier — web3 — many questions remain about what the metaverse is and isn’t. The most relevant question for business leaders, however, is why the metaverse is happening at all. ✅ Why the metaverse? 📍Nada Stirratt, VP, Americas, Meta: …

The gaming community has been skeptical of NFTs to the point that publishers like EA canceled NFT-related plans after facing substantial backlash. Valve even has a ban on Steam games dealing in cryptocurrency and NFTs. Gamers are naturally cautious of any form of monetization after the controversy of loot boxes…

At the heart of web3 is the concept of decentralized ownership, currently facilitated by blockchain technology. 📍 The distributed ledger establishes a verifiable and traceable way to ensure that items and assets are authentic. 📍 It also introduces a way to compensate individuals for their time, data and input —…

Today, titled “Ethereum Merge Day” is about the ETH blockchain switching consensus mechanisms from Proof of Work (PoW) to Proof of Stake (PoS) ➡️ Consensus mechanisms (also known as consensus protocols or consensus algorithms) are used to verify transactions and maintain the security of the underlying blockchain. ➡️ There are…

The Merge has been completed — with Ethereum moving from a Proof-of-Work to a Proof-of-Stake blockchain. ✅ ETH’s price was initially muted as The Merge was confirmed — CoinMarketCap data shows it was stuck at about $1,600 flat on a one-hour and 24-hour timeframe. ✅ “We’ve lost about 4% of…

Betting on Esports with Crypto — One of the most meaningful esports crypto developments in recent times is making betting on esports easier and safer. 📌 Organizing any kind of betting in various countries is a tricky procedure, and many do not have the option to bet with their local…

The Web3 Developer Stack — (and what web3 tools/infrastructure has been built already) 💡 There are three main components to a to build a given computer program: 1. The front-end (what users interact with) 2. The back-end (what users don’t see) 3. Database (where critical data is stored) ✅ The…