Green finance needs voluntary carbon markets that work

Green finance needs voluntary carbon markets that work

The United Nations Climate Change Conference, known as COP26, in Glasgow, Scotland catalyzed a commitment to carbon neutrality, achieving net-zero carbon emissions, requiring reducing emissions as much as possible, and balancing the remaining emissions with the purchase of carbon credits. A carbon credit reduces, avoids or removes carbon emissions in…

The Metaverse needs to keep an eye on privacy to avoid Meta’s mistakes

The Metaverse needs to keep an eye on privacy to avoid Meta’s mistakes

Metaverse skeptics fear the prospect of unprotected data and large-scale user surveillance on a scale never seen before. Ironically, the largest company pushing the Metaverse, Meta (previously known as Facebook), has faced its own fair share of privacy scandals in the internet’s current iteration, culminating in Mark Zuckerberg being infamously…

Memecoins eye major revamps in an effort to return to their former glory

Memecoins eye major revamps in an effort to return to their former glory

Memecoins briefly took the cryptocurrency market by storm in 2021 after steady attention and shilling from big-name influencers like Elon Musk and Mark Cuban helped propel coins like Dogecoin (DOGE) to 100x gains.  As one should expect, in the crypto market, rapidly rising prices have a tendency to reverse course…

Here’s how the Akutars NFT project hopes to redefine how culture intersects with Web3

Here’s how the Akutars NFT project hopes to redefine how culture intersects with Web3

Since the wake of the nonfungible token (NFT) boom, creators have been leaving their Web2 entities in droves and are becoming more knowledgeable on how to carve their own lane in the Web3 world.  It’s not just technologists and artsy-creators who are pivoting toward Web3. For example, former American professional…

‘Web3 offers us the promise to rearchitect the internet,’ says NFT.com Founder Jordan Fried

‘Web3 offers us the promise to rearchitect the internet,’ says NFT.com Founder Jordan Fried

Nonfungible tokens (NFTs) experienced a record-breaking year throughout 2021 in which sales volumes surpassed $14 billion, avatar collectibles permeated the mainstream market to become cultural status symbols, and avant-garde utility sparked innovative Web3 opportunities for a panoply of industries.  Despite a retracement in financial and emotional fortunes in the opening…

Why decentralized telecommunications is necessary to make Web3 a reality

Why decentralized telecommunications is necessary to make Web3 a reality

The world knows the public internet as the best transport network and the backbone of their daily routines. However, if one looks closely, the internet is far from perfect, with many considering the network untrusted and its usage synonymous with poor reliability and performance issues. Although these faults were once…