Mercedes Bent

  • Announcing Lightspeed’s Investment in Hawku, an NFT Marketplace

    By Amy Wu and Mercedes Bent NFTs were originally founded in the last crypto rally of 2017 as a cryptographic tool to tokenize digital items and impart ownership to a digital item. Four years later, the world saw the first major NFT rally in 2021, driven by a crypto surge and resulting cultural phenomenon as…

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  • Why this time around, the metaverse is different

    Mark Zuckerberg’s recent public embrace of the metaverse in the summer of 2021 has gotten a lot of people talking about virtual 3D worlds. The buzzword was all the rage the last few months**. I’ve chuckled a few times at the resurgence of the term. Five years ago I worked in the VR industry and we…

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