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LensLinks: Issue 71
A blockchain news roundup, brought to you by Regiment LLC
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Today in LensLinks:
TODAY IS A MEGA ISSUE!
Bill Gates says the metaverse isn’t “revolutionary” but thinks AI will be
What's the Relationship Between Crypto and AI?
DOJ Probing Saber Labs Founders Over Solana-based Projects
Quasar Raises $5.4M
101: 5 Tech Trends Fueling the Metaverse and the Potential Risks of Extended Reality
Gamers Rise Up
Short Traders Suffer $200M in Losses as Ether, Cardano Lead Crypto Majors' Gains
Flare Just Airdropped 4.279B Tokens: Largest in History
And Much, Much, Much More... (Way...)
QUOTABLE...
“AI is the big one, (I don't) think Web3 was that big or that metaverse stuff alone was revolutionary but AI is quite revolutionary.”
NOTABLE...
Bill Gates has said that he doesn’t think the metaverse has been “revolutionary” in the way he claims AI will be, and revealed that his code hasn’t been shipped with a Microsoft product since 1985.
Metaverse & Gaming
If you’re interested in the landscape of the virtual future — not just in theory, but how it’s really taking shape now — you need to be paying attention to video games.
Blockchain, Tokens & DeFi
Crypto Trading
Traders betting on a market-wide decline were caught off guard as a broad recovery in the past 24 hours saw $200 million in shorts, or bets against price rises, getting liquidated.
The amount added to the more than $150 million in shorts liquidated earlier this week as bitcoin (BTC) and ether (ETH) broke above key resistance levels, and major tokens like XRP and solana (SOL) rose as much as 20%. Similar levels of liquidation on short trades haven't been seen since October, data from Coinglass shows.
Metaverse & Gaming - A Little More...
Blockchain, Tokens & Defi - A Little More...
Crypto Trading - A Little More...
Industry Retro (How far we have come)
ESG (Environment, Social & Governance)
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