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Despite the crisis, NFT and Web3 investments are not dead.

Two former executives from Meta Platforms are establishing a new NFT firm for content providers. According to The Information, Kirthiga Reddy and Saurabh Doshi have raised more than $8 million for their new startup Virtualness. The company will launch next year, allowing creatives to design, produce, and sell digital collectibles.

It's a challenging time to create a Web3 startup and raise capital. For one thing, competitors are putting pressure on NFT marketplaces to stop requiring creators to pay royalties or a percentage of the transaction when they buy a collectible. The abrupt demise of Sam Bankman-Fried's FTX, the world's second (or third) largest crypto exchange, fundamentally shook crypto confidence. However, Reddy regards FTX as a one-time event:

"I truly feel that now is the moment to focus on the promise and potential rather than allowing a bad person or a terrible narrative to disturb the decentralized world."

According to co-founder Reddy, Blockchange Ventures led the seed fundraising round. Polygon Ventures, F7 Ventures, and Micron Ventures are other investors. Reddy's startup's mission is to make designing, creating, and sharing an NFT as simple as possible (just as Stash aims to remove the web3 barrier.) "We believe royalties are a basic right, and we will stand by that," Reddy added.

Some IM-related news!

Zoom shares fell more than 5% after hours as the publicly traded firm posted its worst annual revenue growth over three years. However, some indications are that Zoom is recovering from a downturn caused by more businesses returning to the brick-and-mortar environment and decreased use of crucial goods such as video conferencing and voice-over IP. Zoom's sales to major organizations increased 20% year on year to $614 million during the quarter, accounting for 56% of overall revenues, up from 49% last year.

Zoom's efforts to position itself as a productivity/project management platform similar to Microsoft and Google by providing email and calendaring services appear to have failed to attract investors. However, Zoom's increasingly huge business client base will have a better chance of convincing them to accept its additional solutions in the future.

According to Open Sea, games will save the future of NFT marketplaces.

Digital assets, often known as "NFTs," peaked during the 2021 crypto bubble. As a series of picture collections employing the digital asset format acquired pop-culture notoriety and eye-popping prices, NFTs have become synonymous with the neo-wealth blooming from the blockchain economy. However, as TechCrunch reported, the expanding crypto-related activities and products industry is presently experiencing a volumetric decline. NFT trade volumes are at a year-over-year low, and the FTX exchange's demise continues destabilizing every part of the decentralized economy.

Devin Finzer, CEO of OpenSea, addressed the problem and provided his views on the market's future. Finzer stated early in his talk with Anita Ramaswamy at TechCrunch's event that the NFT sector is highly diversified and that he anticipates growth in the NFT business, particularly in gaming. Indeed, during the last crypto bubble, the emphasis was on play-to-win (P2W) games such as Axie Infinity. However, although Axie's profits have risen and waned, OpenSea's interest in gaming appears to have just recently increased.

We believe that the future of NFTs will be less crypto-centric than it has been thus far. Finzer views NFT markets broadly, believing that including sites such as Instagram would be beneficial. According to him, including NFTs from social enterprises might give regular people an orientation to the crypto market. Finzer mentioned Reddit's NFT activities in a conversation on trust, customers, and cryptocurrency. You are aware that many Redditors are unaware that the digital assets they purchase are crypto-backed products.

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