Andrew Steinwold, managing partner at Sfermion, and John Egan, CEO at L'Atelier BNP Paribas, discuss NFTs and debate the characteristics of the metaverse. Show highlights:

their backgrounds and how they got into NFTs
how they each define the metaverse
what NFTs have to do with the metaverse
how John and Andrew’s depiction of the metaverse differs
what John thinks about Facebook’s entrance into the metaverse
whether Second Life is a metaverse game
how blockchain technology allows for an open metaverse (and why Web2 is “communist”)
what NFTs currently unlock for the metaverse
whether the metaverse will necessarily have to be experienced through augmented reality
whether there will be multiple metaverses across different blockchain platforms
why John thinks NFT maxis and crypto maxis are destined to clash
how the metaverse is changing how people generate income
how to make the metaverse more accessible
whether regulators will force the metaverse to be siloed
how the metaverse will handle jurisdictional disputes
what happens when someone’s Web3 avatar/identity is stolen in the metaverse
what John and Andrew predict will happen in the metaverse over the next 6-12 months.

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John Egan

Twitter:
- https://twitter.com/iamjohnegan
Website:
- https://www.iamjohnegan.com/
LinkedIn
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/johndegan/
Content
- NFTs are like gambling, but could be the bedrock of virtual economy
- - https://decrypt.co/62809/buying-nfts-like-gambling-in-a-casino-analyst
- Wired article on NFTs
- - https://www.wired.co.uk/article/crypto-tokens

L’Atelier

NFT Content
- How NFTs are changing ownership
- - https://atelier.net/insights/nfts-art-ownership-collecting
- The Virtual economy
- - https://atelier.net/virtual-economy
- Real estate NFTs
- - https://atelier.net/insights/tech-real-estate-nfts-tokenisation
Metaverse Content
- Unified coms vs. the Metaverse
- - https://atelier.net/insights/unified-communications-metaverse-tech
- Primer on the metaverse
- - https://atelier.net/insights/primer-define-metaverse-fortnite
- Digital anthropology
- - https://atelier.net/insights/nathalie-bechet-digital-anthropology

Andrew Steinwold

Twitter
- https://twitter.com/AndrewSteinwold
LinkedIn
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-steinwold/
Blog must-reads
- A quick overview of the NFT ecosystem
- - https://andrewsteinwold.substack.com/p/-quick-overview-of-the-nft-ecosystem
- NFTs will introduce the world to crypto?
- - https://andrewsteinwold.substack.com/p/nfts-will-introduce-crypto-to-the
- Why functional NFTs will gain value slower than crypto art
- - https://andrewsteinwold.substack.com/p/-the-promise-effect-why-functional
- History of NFTs
- - https://medium.com/@Andrew.Steinwold/the-history-of-non-fungible-tokens-nfts-f362ca57ae10
- NFT Value Drivers
- - https://andrewsteinwold.substack.com/p/-nonfungible-token-nft-value-drivers

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