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The MultiversX CEO discussed the recent interest of Meta and Apple in the metaverse domain and analyzed their respective approaches. The Metaverse concept gained a lot of traction both from the crypto community and venture capital firms during the peak of the bull run. The likes of Meta (Facebook) and Apple joining the metaverse bandwagon only gave more legitimacy to the concept. However, the approach of both multi-billion dollar tech firms has been quite a different approach towards it. On one hand, Meta shifted its whole focus to virtual reality (VR) and recently released new smart glasses in partnership with Rayban while Apple incorporated a spatial computing approach and focused on augmented reality (AR) more and launched its own AR glasses earlier this year. Blockchain-based metaverse-focused platform MultiversX CEO Beniamin Mincu believes the spatial computing approach by Apple is more catered towards the metaverse goal than Meta’s VR quest. In an exclusive interview with Coi...

PayPal filed a patent application for a system that lets users transfer and purchase nonfungible tokens. In this week’s newsletter, read about how a nonfungible token (NFT) artist raised money to support a cancer charity and why payments platform PayPal has filed a patent application for an NFT marketplace . Check out Meta’s new photorealistic metaverse avatars and, in other news, learn why Neal Stephenson’s metaverse blockchain project remains optimistic despite waning interest. NFT artist raises $140,000 for cancer support charity NFT artist Trevor Jones donated almost $140,000 to Maggie’s Edinburgh — an organization dedicated to cancer treatments — after raising funds from a Web3 event in France. The amount raised from the event will help 4,000 patients affected by cancer and those who need critical support. According to Maggie’s Edinburgh, the funds raised by Jones will be the highest single donation from an art event in the organization’s history. The money collected will suppo...