Is the Midiverse Really About Ownership and Capitalism?

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Yacht provides unique emotouser names that people use to link to their cryptal wallets and other onmine services. For this week's interview, we talked with nevine, jane founderr and ceo of yacht about didual identities in web three. Nevine: "We're totally living in the metaverse right now"

Welcome back, this week Lucas and Anita return to discuss the ultimate meme investing crossover episode with GameStop launching an NFT marketplace. We also break down this week’s latest drama with the liquidation of crypto hedge fund 3 Arrows Capital. It wasn’t all doom and gloom as we discussed some of the new crypto funds injecting fresh capital into the space.

In their interview this week, Lucas and Anita chat with Naveen Jain. Naveen is the founder of web3 startup Yat which lets people buy their own emoji URL. The marketplace saw some wildly expensive sales this year, but when can pricey emojis tell us about the future of identity?

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https://techcrunch.com/2021/07/30/yat-thinks-emoji-identities-can-be-a-thing-and-it-has-20m-in-sales-to-back-it-up/

https://techcrunch.com/2022/07/13/celsius-one-of-cryptos-biggest-lenders-files-for-bankruptcy/

https://techcrunch.com/2022/07/12/crypto-focused-multicoin-capital-launches-430m-venture-fund/

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