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2022-12-07 19:54:02 UnionBank Partners With Hex Trust to Tap Metaverse

UnionBank will expand its digital asset exposure by tapping into the metaverse through a partnership with Hex Trust, according to a statement. As part of its broader its «Tech-up Pilipinas» advocacy efforts, UnionBank will leverage Hex Trust’s digital asset custody capabilities.

The metaverse can create many opportunities for Filipinos to connect with the global community. However, these are also very valuable assets that need institutional-grade security and custody,» said Henry Aguda, UnionBank's chief technology and operations officer. «Aside from giving our customers new and engaging experiences,.

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2022-12-06 18:35:04 A Rookie Knocks Reddit’s NFT Marketplace Out of the Park

Although Pali Bhat impressed Reddit CEO Steve Huffman during interviews to become the company’s first chief product officer last year, Huffman told Fast Company that he had been concerned that Pali hadn't worked on something like Reddit before.

Bhat’s experience was with developer tools at Google, and Reddit is a community of niche communities, called subreddits, that focus on narrowly but deeply on hundreds of thousands of topics. Reddit’s NFT success is even more remarkable given that it has taken place during crypto winter. according to a report by Coinbase.

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2022-12-05 14:03:02 OpenSea: NFT creators earned over US$1 billion in fees this year

According to OpenSea, NFT creators earned over US$1 billion this year so far (based on the sales concluded between January 1 and November 23 on the platform). This amount does not include grants, various incentives, or sponsorships. Over 80% went to less popular collections.

The impressive figure mentioned above only includes the revenue generated by creator fees from the resale of their NFTs. In many cases, NFT creators also gain from sponsorships, engagement incentives, as well as grants. According to OpenSea's data, only 20% of the US$1.1 billion generated this year went to the top 10 NFT collections

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2022-12-04 11:15:04 OpenSea’s Ethereum gas usage has declined to almost zero

Ethereum (ETH) network based on transactions interacting with non-fungible tokens contracts showed that OpenSea’s gas usage has declined to almost zero.The analysis included token contract standards (ERC721 and ERC1155) and other NFT marketplaces.

According to the above chart, overall gas fees in transactions related to NFTs peaked between October 2021 and January 2022. During this period, OpenSea accounted for roughly 20% of NFT gas consumption on Ethereum. The largest NFT marketplace was still able to maintain its dominance in gas consumption until July, when it began to decline rapidly –this coincided with when the bear market.

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2022-12-03 09:11:02 Apple disables version of Coinbase Wallet over NFT gas fees

Apple blocked the latest version of Coinbase Wallet until a feature that allows users to send NFTs over iOS is disabled, according to the exchange. Apple’s claim is that the gas fees required to send NFTs need to be paid through their In-App Purchase system.

MetaMask developer and former Apple software engineer Dan Finlay publicly condemned Apple’s decision, likening it to an Orwelian foil. “Oh I'll absolutely stand in solidarity here, I assume MM and every other wallet is next. I'm ready to dump the Apple ecosystem. The 30% tax is an abuse of monopoly. tim_cook has donned the Big Brother screen,” he tweeted. Apple and Coinbase did not immediately respond to requests for comment from The Block.

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2022-12-02 17:23:02 South Korea’s Shinhan Bank starts ‘metaverse’ services, according to local media

Shinhan Bank, one of South Korea’s top four lenders by net profit, has opened a “metaverse” site to provide what it called financial and non-financial services, claiming to be the first bank in the country to provide such a platform, according to local media reports on Wednesday.

Shinhan Bank’s announcement follows a number of experiments by the lender with blockchain and cryptocurrency related services. In December last year, it ran a test of a real-time international remittance via stablecoin with Standard Bank of South Africa and using the blockchain network Hedera Hashgraph. Shinhan Bank is also an early investor in Korea Digital Asset Custody.

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2022-12-01 10:02:02 Tezos draws Art Basel Miami collectors with 'generative' NFT minting

Serious art collectors known to frequent the opening day of the Art Basel Miami Beach fair had the ability to take something home completely for free on Tuesday — a "generative" NFT minted on the Tezos blockchain. Only 2,500 of the NFTs will be minted during the week.

The Tezos exhibit at the exclusive fair featured an interactive, live-minting experience that lets visitors scan a QR code to start production of an algorithmic NFT designed by either Tyler Boswell, DistCollective or Ivona Tau. The whole process takes about two minutes, and the work is quickly delivered to the visitor's wallet and then displayed on a large screen with information.

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2022-11-30 17:20:06 Metaverse Education Alliance Announced During MetaExpo Singapore

MetaExpo Singapore, the Web3 and Metaverse Education, Danielius Stasiulis, CEO of Learnoverse and BitDegree, inaugurated the Metaverse Education Alliance (MEA), a global initiative aimed at promoting cooperation among leading Web3 and Metaverse EdTech operators and related stakeholders.

The Forum included panels and addresses by prominent Web3 and Metaverse ecosystem developers, investors and educators. Danielius Stasiulis shared a panel discussion with Taizo Son, CEO of Mistletoe Inc., one of the most prolific investors in Asia. Their talk focused on repositioning the Asian market as the next global hotspot for Web3 and Metaverse education.

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2022-11-29 15:26:02 Cooperation of Deep Tech SMEs and Global Giants Drive Opportunities in the Metaverse

Finland has got a globally unique and versatile ecosystem of XR companies, which covers all stages of the value chain, ranging from XR headset and technology development to various XR development platforms, use case-specific solutions, and customer-specific XR content.

The thriving ecosystem of companies has been enabled by decades of research at several universities and research agencies in several supporting technologies such as machine vision, mobile phone technologies, and photonics/optics. Particularly the Finnish Photonics Cluster, consisting of several research agencies and growth.

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2022-11-28 20:48:02 An early VR pioneer now believes in the AR metaverse

Louis Rosenberg founded VR start-up Immersion Corporation in the early nineties. Years of research in VR labs at Stanford University, the U.S. space agency NASA, and the U.S. Air Force convinced Rosenberg that virtual reality and augmented reality.

VR enthusiasm peaked and the industry fell into what Rosenberg calls “the VR winter.” From 1997 to 2012, he says, venture capitalists didn’t take you seriously if you even mentioned the term virtual reality. Many of the early VR companies disappeared, even though they had pioneered many key virtual world technologies.

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