• Mark Zuckerberg's vision of a centralized Facebook-style social metaverse has been dubbed "dystopian" by one of the firm's earliest supporters.
• Microsoft, on the other hand, appears to have a zig-zag approach to realizing its metaverse ambitions.
• The potential of Web3 as the ...

The race to the metaverse is on, featuring runners and riders including tech giants like Meta, Microsoft, and Epic, to blockchain old-schoolers like Decentraland and Somnium Space. The only problem is that it looks suspiciously like a repeat of the "format wars" we've seen play out time and time ...

The network effects of such a model would be unparalleled because the incentives are aligned.

Users will want their friends and family to join so they can also participate in the rewards and make the network a better place to hang out.

Thanks to the underlying blockchain infrastructur...

In the Web2 model, we don't own anything so we end up tied into platforms and services simply so we can benefit from the work we've put into them over the years.

Closing a social media account means losing followers, closing a streaming service means losing playlists and access to streaming...