iBooks Author (iBA) was an e-book authoring application by Apple Inc, released in early 2012, only available for macOS, and discontinued in 2020.[2]... Documents created by iBooks Author could only sold for a fee if they are accepted by and distributed by Apple,[3][4] but authors also had the option to distribute their work elsewhere for free.... iBooks Author was discontinued on July 1, 2020, with Apple suggesting Pages as a replacement. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBooks_Author

Daniel Krupka: Polkadot (DOT) Review: Worth It? What You NEED To Know!!* What Dr. Gavin Wood is perhaps most famous for however is creating Solidity, the coding language used to build smart contracts on Ethereum. (more)

CB Insights Research: Blockchain Funding Is At An All-Time High — Here's What's Driving The Boom. Investors poured more money into blockchain companies in H1'21 than they did over the course of any full year in history (more)

Zora is a marketplace to buy, sell and trade limited-edition goods. All of these goods are launched as tokens (NFT).... The Decentralized Auction Protocol for NFTs on Ethereum. https://zora.co/manifesto

Outlier Ventures has an Open-Metaverse-OS Whitepaper. (more)

Jacqueline Garavente on CryptoKitties. I’ve been beating the drum on digital pets and economies of scale for digital assets for a while at USV. I really thought (and still think!) that would be the killer use case for Augmented Reality. Alas, AR has been pushed aside to make way for its hotter and more elusive cousin, crypto. This time, it comes in the form of CryptoKitties. (more)

ConsenSys is a blockchain software technology company founded by Joseph Lubin.. Joseph Lubin founded ConsenSys in early 2015 as a software foundry to develop decentralized software services and applications that operate on the Ethereum blockchain...ConsenSys is involved in many different projects and services for blockchain uses and applications. (more)

A cryptocurrency wallet is a device,[1] physical medium,[2] program or a service which stores the public and/or private keys[3] for cryptocurrency transactions. In addition to this basic function of storing the keys, a cryptocurrency wallet more often also offers the functionality of encrypting and/or signing information. Signing can for example result in executing a smart contract, a cryptocurrency transaction (see "bitcoin transaction" image), identification or legally signing a 'document' (see "application form" image). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptocurrency_wallet

MetaMask is a software crypto wallet used to interact with the Ethereum blockchain.[1][2] It allows users to access their Ethereum wallet through a browser extension or mobile app, which can then be used to interact with decentralized applications... MetaMask was created in 2016 by ConsenSys. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MetaMask

cf DigiCash (more)

Venture capitalist focusing on the Metaverse (2020-21)

WebAssembly (sometimes abbreviated Wasm) is an open standard that defines a portable binary-code format for executable programs, and a corresponding textual assembly language, as well as interfaces for facilitating interactions between such programs and their host environment.[2][3][4][5] The main goal of WebAssembly is to enable high-performance applications on web pages, but the format is designed to be executed and integrated in other environments as well, including standalone ones. WebAssembly (i.e. WebAssembly Core Specification (then version 1.0, 1.1 is in draft[9]) and WebAssembly JavaScript Interface[10]) became a World Wide Web Consortium recommendation on 5 December 2019,[11] alongside HTML, CSS, and JavaScript... In November 2017, Mozilla declared support "in all major web browsers",[39] after WebAssembly was enabled by default in Edge 16.[40] The support includes mobile web browsers for iOS and Android. As of July 2021, 94% of installed browsers support WebAssembly... WebAssembly is supported on desktops, and mobile, but on the latter, in practice (for non-small memory allocations, such as with Unity game engine) there are "grave limitations that make many applications infeasible to be reliably deployed on mobile browsers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebAssembly (more)

Matthew Ball: A Framework for the Metaverse. We need to think of the Metaverse as a sort of successor state to the mobile internet. (more)

What is EOS? An Intro to the Entrepreneurial Operating System. Traction touts the Entrepreneurial Operating System® (EOS®), and outlines six key business components: Vision, People, Data, Issues, Process and Traction®. To be successful, Gino Wickman contends, companies need to define and align these core components. (more)

Economy not constrained by physical goods. Could be within a Virtual World, Computer Game, or elsewhere. (more)

An interesting thread on the Design of Virtual World Market Economy systems. Designing Virtual Worlds by Richard Bartle talks a bit about designing economies. I've only skimmed it, but it is a well regarded resource. Ted Castranova's Synthetic Worlds hits on many of these topics as well. As an economist, he has done some of the best work on understanding economies in virtual worlds.

Tinderbox is an app (http://www.eastgate.com/Tinderbox/) from East Gate. Used to be called Ceres. (more)

Matthew Ball: Payments, Payment Rails, and Blockchains, and The Metaverse. Throughout this primer, the Metaverse has been positioned as both a successor state to the mobile internet, as well as a platform for human leisure, labor, and existence at large. The success of this vision depends on whether the Metaverse has a thriving economy (virtual economy). (more)

John Herrman: Are We in the Metaverse Yet? Crypto people say they’re building it. Gamers might already be living in it. The art world is cashing in on it. Web veterans are trying to save it. But what is it? (more)

Matthew Ball: Virtual Platforms and the Metaverse. Here, Virtual Platforms are defined as “The development and operation of immersive digital and often three-dimensional simulations, environments, and worlds wherein users and businesses can explore, create, socialize, and participate in a wide variety of experiences (more)