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Markets

First Mover Asia: Why the Metaverse Is a Potemkin Village

Despite breathless headlines about a digital land rush, metaverse platforms are struggling to attract brands and users; bitcoin ticks up slightly.

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Finance

VanEck Releases First NFTs, Promising Early Access to Research

The asset management firm is releasing 1,000 non-fungible tokens with varying levels of access to special benefits and community.

VanEck's NFT collection is based around a series of memes featuring a character modeled after Alexander Hamilton named “Hammy.” (Maya/Flickr)

Videos

BAYC Metaverse Land Sale Fetches $285M But Investors Paid $176M in Gas Fees Alone

Yuga Labs debuted its long-awaited Bored Ape Yacht Club metaverse project “Otherside,” generating roughly $285 million in digital land sales, but the Ethereum-based project created some of the highest gas fees in the network’s history – costing investors over $176 million.

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Finance

BAYC Team Raises $285M With Otherside NFTs, Clogs Ethereum

The virtual land rush for the ape-centered metaverse project has already cost traders more than $176 million in fees alone.

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Layer 2

Please Don’t Buy a ‘KYC’d’ Wallet for the Bored Apes Team’s Otherside Mint

Yuga Labs’ long-awaited “Otherside” NFT sale has spawned a secondary market for specially registered Ethereum addresses. Caveat emptor.

MONKEY BUSINESS: Buying access to a random person’s crypto wallet is extremely risky. (meshaphoto/Getty Images)

Videos

Apollo Hires JP Morgan's Christine Moy to Lead Digital Assets Strategy

Apollo Global Management made a major push into crypto by hiring former JPMorgan (JPM) executive Christine Moy as its first head of digital assets strategy. “The Hash” group discusses Moy’s experience with metaverse projects like Decentraland and the broader narrative of increased global interest in crypto as the Central African Republic adopts bitcoin as legal tender. 

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Finance

Gate Ventures on Track to Close $200M Crypto Fund by Q3

The VC arm of Gate.io will invest in layer 1 and layer 2 protocols that can help build an open internet.

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Markets

ApeCoin Futures See $36M in Liquidations After Volatile Trading

The tokens surged and sank as new features in the Bored Ape Yacht Club ecosystem went live.

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Opinion

Mark Zuckerberg to Investors: Expect Nothing From the Metaverse

In setting a 10-year timeline for returns from Reality Labs, Zuck raised as many questions as he answered.

Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer and cofounder of Meta (formerly Facebook Inc.), during the announcement of the corporate rebrand on Thursday, Oct. 28, 2021. Just months later, Meta seems to be downplaying the promise of its metaverse ambitions. (Michael Nagel/Getty Images)