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August 05, 2022

The Front Page of the Metaverse 📰

Before you unwrap this week's Parcel, open up this must-read article by our partners PangeaDAO on metaverse interoperability.

A glance at the past week:

Creatorverse Buildathon

As of today's Parcel delivery, there are officially 5 days until submissions close! 😬

We opened up the week with a fruitful 90-minute conversation with four of the top metaverse architects: Hard, untitled, xyz, NeonGlitch86, and Tim Ung.

Some highlights:

⭐ A timeless Eric Clapton serenade to set the emotional atmosphere.

⭐ Talking about new technologies and the future of interoperability.

⭐ When Neon and untitledxyz spilled the beans on what events led to their present-day success.

⭐ Getting real about mental health, and how the metaverse is an avenue to IRL healing.

⭐ Finding your community through vulnerability.

Here's the full recording — perfect for that morning/evening walk to round out your week! 🚶

📰 What's News?

🌎 World News

🫶 He's one of 'us'. Vitalik Buterin (a.k.a Web3's fashion prince 🌈🦄) has been relatively quiet when it comes to metaverse chatter. In last Friday's Parcel, we talked Meta, big time. This week, we're echoing the shots fired by the Ethereum co-founder.

Key takeaways:

💥 The metaverse is gmi, but big corp is ngmi — a point we've been heralding all along.

💥 It's early. Nobody really knows what they want.

💥 Meta is gonna have misfires, regardless of whatever action they take going forward.

Basically, all the headlines regarding Meta + big corp are most likely the countless ricochets littering the industry.

Unpopular opinion: 🤔 Although they're wasting ammunition (in the form of billions of dollars), it's safe to assume Meta has a sufficient stockpile following many years of power aggregation. Replenishing supply isn't a worry for the existing monopolies. VR, XR, AR...they've been winning the hardware game for some time. Oh, and Zuckerberg is looking to draft the big boys into the game too. 🦾

Ultimately, we're not worried. The main mystery lies in the uncertainty. At the end of the day, there's no better way to get to the bottom of the community's needs than by growing the community itself — and our frontline view shows us that community is simultaneously our fuel and big corp's kryptonite.

❓ Pop quiz: What do you get when you take "NFT" out of Minecraft?

The answer is: NFT World's scrabble-esque rebrand, Micera.

Minecraft said "no" to NFTs, so NFT Worlds simply responded, "k," and swiftly removed the acronym entirely. 🤭 Simple. Smart. Suave.

💰 Earn money by...giving out money?

Transak has now made it possible for Decentraland land owners to earn money by housing an in-world ATM on their LAND. 🤑 Users can insert fiat for $MANA, and use it to buy DCL assets, land, etc. Visit the ATM here.

🛍️ Brand New World

Brands are at the frontlines of fighting for mass adoption of the metaverse. See who's been making movements in recent news. 👀

🐵 Gucci ape'd in. Select US-based Gucci boutiques now accept $APE via BitPay.

☕ Starbucks makes a Grande announcement. This news isn't exactly metaverse-related, but the franchise coffee mogul is displaying a great model for network effects via a Web3-based rewards system. Non-fungible hot bevvys, how about that?!

So what? wen metaverse space? There's already plenty of metaverse architects dreaming up the perfect in-world franchise.

🤑 Largest Virtual Land Sales

Top sales this week:

Fiat values are in USD at time of sale. Last updated August 5, 9:26AM ET.

📈 Market Movements

7-day token changes

⬆️ $APE +8%

⬆️ $MANA +5%

⬇️ $SAND -3%

⬆️ $AXS +5%

⬆️ $ENJ +13%

⬆️ $WRLD -2%

⬇️ $MET -7%

Prices as of August, 9:49AM ET.

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