Alexis Ohanian invests in a Solana-backed social media ecosystem
Reddit co-founder and Seven Seven Six principal Alexis Ohanian and the Solana Foundation are putting up $100 million to fund social platforms for the Solana blockchain.
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Niantic plots a “real-world metaverse”
Niantic, the creator of Pokémon Go, is making its AR-focused “real-world metaverse” app creator open source for developers.
Robots get a human touch
A group of MIT researchers are teaching robots some social cues.
Microsoft’s metaverse animates open source capabilities
Microsoft is constructing the building blocks of the metaverse through its Teams platform and Mesh software, allowing users to create accurate cartoon avatars of themselves that will soon be portable across the internet.
Meta and Snap invite advertisers inside the walled garden
Meta and Snap took a third-quarter tumble because of Apple’s new privacy features, and now both platforms are segueing to an ad strategy that invites brands to do most of their business inside the platform.
Patreon posits crypto
Patreon is testing the waters on the idea of allowing creators to mint social token NFTs on its platform.
America takes the Bitcoin mining gold
The U.S. has taken the lead as the top Bitcoin mining destination in the world.
Superplastic plots “Disney of NFTs” strategy
Media company Superplastic is building a world of anarchic animated characters that are populating stories on social platforms, the blockchain, toy shelves, and eventually the big screen.
The software that is always watching
With Apple clamping down on user privacy, brands are finding that their marketing dollars aren’t having the same impact on Google and Facebook as they did before...
Square may open bitcoin mining
Square and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey announced that Square is toying with creating a “Bitcoin mining system,” giving more people access to try computing for a cryptocurrency.