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Even though we have similar visions of the core values of the future metaverses, such as decentralization and censorship resistance, we may have distinct notions on how to implement those core values. We may also differ in the way to reflect our digital identities. Flexible metaverse tools can support...
The Brazilian Carnival, one of the world’s most spectacular festivals, will make its debut in the metaverse in a partnership between two industry leaders – Decentraland and Upland. This year, the Carnival will take place between February 17 and 25, and thousands of metaverse visitors worldwide will have...
NFT rental protocols provide the infrastructure to rent NFTs for a limited period. They allow transferring NFT user rights without transferring the NFT ownership. As a result, users who don’t own an NFT can still leverage its utilities, while the NFT owners can gain passive income. How does NFT renting work?Users...
The development of immersive digital content is due in large part to holograms. There are two primary ways to go about hologram creation. The first path relies on using augmented reality glasses. The holograms created this way are known as stereotypical holograms, and the most well-known example is Microsoft’s HoloLens. In...
The Web City Club NFT collection runs on the Polygon network and features an NFT lottery. The game revolves around 10,000 PFP (Profile Picture) NFTs. These cartoon-style 2D pieces of digital Pet 3piders represent spiders in Web3 and are associated with future perks for their owners. They are ERC-721 tokens that...
Flare, an interoperable blockchain network, has collaborated with the ed-tech startup Uppercent to develop an educational marketplace.The new marketplace will be powered by NFTs which will function as access passes to online courses. The Flare network will issue the NFTs, and the Uppercent platform will offer the courses. Students will...
For Web3 to achieve mass adoption, practical applications are necessary at the user layer. Social wallets are working towards customer-friendly layers by combining two essential components of Web3: communication and digital asset management.Web3 social wallets are decentralized applications where activities like group chatting, direct messaging, performing transactions, and...
One method is gaining ground among the various approaches to building the metaverse. That is mapping the physical world to create something like a mirror world and creating AR experiences on top of it. The fundamental pieces of a metaverse that merges the physical and virtual worlds are 3D maps generated...
The pixel adventure RPG game Portal Fantasy is the brainchild of a team with many years of gaming experience gained at companies like Nintendo, Disney, and Facebook and on titles like Assassin’s Creed and Tropico. The team has a data-driven approach to tokenomics and is led by Kasei, who also founded a...
As an amalgam of social media and decentralized finance, SocialFi opens up new possibilities for content monetization while also allowing censorship-resistant decentralized applications. We already have a diverse range of companies in today’s SocialFi landscape. Some are decentralized social media applications like Steemit, Leo Finance, and PeakD. Other companies, such as DeSo...