Exclusive: Nifty Gateway Co-founders Reveal Why They’re Stepping Down

The Alpha Brothers and Nifty Gateway Co-Foudners Duncan and Griffin Cock Foster announced they would be stepping down from their leadership roles at the company.The news comes after (but not in response to) Gemini, Nifty Gateway’s parent company, announcing it will cut 10 percent of its workforce.The Cock Foster brothers have no concrete plans for…

Expert Opinion: Here’s How to Make the Metaverse More Inclusive

Marginalized people often suffer the most harm from unintended consequences of new technologies. For example, the algorithms that automatically make decisions about who gets to see what content or how images are interpreted suffer from racial and gender biases. People who have multiple marginalized identities, such as being Black and disabled, are even more at…

A Guide to The Memes by 6529: Building an Open Metaverse Through Humor

Over their lifetime, memes have come to be understood as more than just cat pictures and fail videos that solicit the occasional laugh. In contrast to the often flippant nature of internet culture, memes have taken on great significance in mainstream and popular culture, achieving staying power as somewhat of a universal language. This also…

How Jack Butcher’s Checks Challenges the Way People View NFTs

When Elon Musk bought Twitter in October 2022, the internet collectively braced itself. The world’s richest human’s new toy was now a social media platform with an active user base of 368 million accounts — what could go wrong? One of the billionaire’s first changes to Twitter was to upend its “lords and peasants” system…

Reality vs Hype: Why Experts Say Blockchain Is The Future of Card Games

What’s the best kind of blockchain game? The answer is obviously subjective, as it depends on your taste. Do you prefer testing your skill on runner-style games, or would you rather explore a virtual open world? It can be hard to decide which is truly best. That said, one game format has stood out as perhaps the most…