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Republic’s metaverse real estate arm spins off, rebrands as Everyrealm

TechCrunch

Over $500 million worth of real estate was sold on the top four metaverse platforms in 2021, data shows. Traditional real estate companies are amongst the many investors flocking to stake their claim on plots of land in virtual worlds like Decentraland and Sandbox. 3 views: Is the metaverse for work or play?

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Blockchain breakthroughs: A tech revolution told in whitepapers

CIO

Blockchain is one of the great blindsides in the history of technology. Major trends around cloud technology, virtualization, and mobile you could see coming, but a novel distributed computing model based on public key cryptography? The basic idea of leveraging blockchain to build Turing machines was introduced there.

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Niio announces $15M Series A following strategic partnership with Samsung Displays

TechCrunch

Niio will use its capital to grow its artist community and scale its app-enabled subscription and purchase platform, which is blockchain – based and will include a trading-enabled marketplace for NFTs and other digital art assets. The NFT market is just getting started, but where is it headed?

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Over 500 mobile apps are now using the term ‘metaverse’ to attract new users

TechCrunch

While Facebook, now Meta, never claimed to have already built the metaverse, the word soon began to be used much more casually to describe nearly any immersive online environment where people interact with one another as virtual selves. Startups began to describe themselves as metaverse companies.

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Twig takes $35M to turn stuff you own into a way to pay

TechCrunch

In that scenario blockchain becomes useful… We want to increase the liquidity of this asset and make it very easy for consumers to trade the physical goods for virtual goods and use the virtual goods to buy physical goods or experiences. “Our goal is to make this available externally as well.

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Commercial Real Estate Technology: Transforming A Traditional Industry

UruIT

Having spared no industry or individual, Commercial Real Estate (CRE) has also been impacted and the way tech has helped to accelerate this field in the midst of a global pandemic is compelling. With personalization powered by AI within a virtual real estate marketplace prospective buyers can search for properties with precision.

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Proptech: the disruption of real estate

Apiumhub

Real Estate Technology or Property Technology is often referred to as RE Tech or PropTech. Basically, it is a use of technology in the real estate industry to make transactions more efficient. Virtual reality. UK based Eyespy360 is a platform that creates and distributes virtual tours of buildings.