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The Future of Crypto Native Consumer Products Part 4: Digital Identities
No More Catfishing. Digital Identities — It’s not a matter of if, but whom. This is Part 4 of the Series. Read Part 1, Part 2 (Messaging), & Part 3 (Utility). If you’re like me, you’ve had a friend who’s about to go on a first date with someone they met on Bumble. They’ll usually say something like, “I’ve already…
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The Future of Crypto Native Consumer Products, Part 3: Utility
What are Web3, NFTs, and crypto actually good for? Quite a lot, actually. Read Part I and Part II of the future of crypto consumer product series People who know of my interest in NFTs in the arts and crypto in general often ask me, “Okay, but are these things *actually* useful in the real…
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The Future of Crypto Native Consumer Products, Part 2: Messaging
Crypto’s ‘You’ve got mail’ moment is coming To steal a line from Mark Twain, the demise of crypto has been greatly exaggerated. Yes, token values are falling, and crypto companies built on the assumption of an ever-rising tide are starting to trim their sails. And yes a “crypto winter” is upon us. But I am confident that…
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The Future of Crypto Native Consumer Products
Every major technology shift has eventually brought forth a new wave of consumer tech companies. The emergence of the Internet led to messaging apps like AOL and Yahoo, marketplaces like Amazon and eBay, and entertainment services like Netflix and Pandora. The move to mobile led to the rise of Twitter, Uber, Facebook, and Snap*, among…
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Meet Everyrealm: Building the Gateway to the Metaverse
[Orignally posted Feb 10, 2022] We’re thrilled to be partnering with Everyrealm as they announce their $60M Series A. Everyrealm is an investor and developer of NFT properties in the virtual world. They launched in April 2021 and built Fantasy Islands and the infamous $650k yacht in Sandbox. The team believes (as do we) that people need places to…
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FCF’s Series A — the web3 league where fans/community call the plays
[Originally posted Jan 12, 2022] Congratulations to FCF (Fan Controlled Football) on your $40M Series A raise led by Animoca Brands and Delphi Digital. We led the seed in mid 2020 and have been continuously floored by the ingenuity, inventiveness, hustle, and performance of the FCF team. We already know Americans love to watch football. The TV…
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The Web3/Crypto/Metaverse Ecosystem Guide — From the Minds of Lightspeed
Here’s how to get up to speed in web3/crypto/metaverse You’ve been hearing a lot about crypto and are wondering where to get started. Or maybe if you’re like us, you’ve spent your days, evenings, weekends and holidays getting up to speed. The crypto community is one where the only constant is the pace at which…
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Web3, Crypto & Learning
The original post can be found on Mirror. This post is an extension of the tweetstorm I did in early October 2021 Web3, crypto & blockchain are making waves in art, music, and fintech today. How will web3, crypto, and blockchain affect edtech & learning? In this post I outline what I’m seeing so far. Today I’m seeing…
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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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Mercedes Bent 