M○C△ WEEKLY 4/8

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Your M○C△ Weekly Round-Up

Crypto Art

• Quantum leap: how a decade of NFTs has changed digital art (TheArtNewspaper)

• ‘The Halvening NYC’—Bitcoin Returns On NFT NYC’s Opening Night (Forbes)

• At NFT.NYC, Web3 Types Focus on Merchandising and the Art World Heads Elsewhere (ArtNews)

• Darkfarms Reflects on Book of Meme’s Meteoric Rise and What’s Next (NFTNow)

Metaverse

• Spatial AI is the Future of Human-Computer Interaction and the Metaverse (OodaLoop)

• Vision Pro spatial Personas are like Apple's version of the metaverse without the Meta (TechRadar)

• Somnia Unveils The Metaverse Blockchain Designed for Millions of Users (CoinGape)

• Meta’s metaverse lab has lost $40B since Facebook changed its name in 2021 (CoinTelegraph)

AI

• What Is AI Without Its Capacity for Delight? (TheAtlantic)

• AI will shrink workforces within five years, say company execs (CNN)

• A super-intelligent AI doomsday is not where futurists see the world going (CNBC)

• How AI risks creating a ‘black box’ at the heart of US legal system (TheHill)

Finance

• Bitcoin halving will have to battle with ‘weak time of year’ — Coinbase (CoinTelegraph)

• Do Kwon, Terraform Labs Found Liable for Fraud in SEC Trial (Bloomberg)

• Ripple to launch U.S. dollar stablecoin, taking on a $150 billion market dominated by Tether, Circle (CNBC)

• All You Need To Know About India’s Crypto Bill (Forbes)

Potpourri

• Binance Stops Support for Bitcoin NFTs Citing 'Streamlining' of Offered Products (CoinDesk)

• ‘If It Goes to Zero—Fine’: Why Do Collectors Pay Wild Prices for New Art? (ArtNet)

• VanEck-backed NFT card game Parallel coming soon to Epic Games Store (Crypto.News)

Tweet of the Week

Tweet from @KAIZ3NS

Art From M○C△’s Collection

Reality Undone (2020), by George Boya. In Museum of Crypto Art Genesis Collection.

Art in the Wild

No Pressure at All (2024), by Ben Zank. Currently being auctioned.

Traditional Art Banger

Eugène Manet on the Isle of Wight (1874-1875), by Berthe Morisot. 38 x 46cm, oil on canvas. In collection of Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris.

Quote of the Week

“A great artist is a great man in a great child.”

-Victor Hugo

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