On this week’s show: Crypto shows signs of life, ETH price poised for a huge bull run, clarifying blockchain’s role as a “truth machine,” big changes to the Upland Sparklet whitepaper, Sparklet airdrop campaign No. 2 begins, Midtown Terrace Sale Survey: Stage 3, AI and Metaverse combo could create more interactive and personal virtual worlds, Coach moves into the metaverse, Meta further slashing its metaverse budget, AI mass surveillance at the Paris Olympics, artificial intelligence detects cancer more accurately than doctors, how the NFT world has divided into different segments, Web3 experts cite innovation and PR as key challenges for NFT adoption, pay-to-extract an emerging Web3 gaming model, and Planetarium Labs and Immutable announce a partnership to work on a new Web3 game. Plus, as always, we ground ourselves with some real-world insights with a few doses of reality from the Meatsuitaverse. Metaverse Ventures Australia (MVA) Discord: 🌏https://discord.gg/Vvz3f96yC9 🏡 Midtown Terrace Survey: Stage 3 🏡 https://forms.gle/88LHLWr6mQajhP57A ⚠️WARNING!⚠️ This podcast is produced by Metaverse Ventures Entertainment and contains unsolicited and heavily biased opinions which are solely the views of the individuals involved. It does not include investment advice of any kind and you are responsible for undertaking your own financial, including tax liability research relevant to your own individual circumstances. 🛜Links and articles discussed📰 https://coinmarketcap.com/ https://zycrypto.com/eth-price-poised-for-huge-bull-earthquake-as-cboe-confirms-spot-ethereum-etf-trading-starts-july-23/ https://blockchainreporter.net/vitalik-buterin-clarifies-blockchains-role-as-a-truth-machine/ https://upland-guide.com/2024/07/19/sparklet-whitepaper-amendments https://uplandme.medium.com/exciting-updates-on-sparklet-airdrop-chapter-2-and-white-paper-revisions-5dc699fdfc64 https://airdrop.upland.me/ https://forms.gle/vE6FYyq1eEVNVpNSA https://news.bitcoin.com/ai-and-metaverse-combo-could-create-more-interactive-personal-virtual-worlds-says-tech-veteran/ https://us.fashionnetwork.com/news/Coach-moves-into-metaverse-via-roblox-and-zepeto-link-ups,1651765.html https://qz.com/meta-metaverse-budget-save-3-billion-bank-of-america-1851600312 https://www.channelnewsasia.com/commentary/paris-olympics-ai-france-security-surveillance-privacy-4487966 https://apnews.com/article/paris-olympics-security-police-military-terrorism-34b168e7a511e22ce7119a91932d2759 https://www.foxnews.com/health/artificial-intelligence-detects-cancer-17-more-accuracy-than-doctors-ucla-study https://nftevening.com/how-the-nft-world-has-divided-into-different-segments/ https://cointelegraph.com/news/nft-adoption-barriers-solutions https://nftplazas.com/what-is-pay-to-extract/ https://coinpedia.org/information/planetarium-labs-and-immutable-announce-partnership/ https://www.news.com.au/technology/environment/absolutely-cooked-country-footy-game-abandoned-as-polar-blast-sweeps-region/news-story/4e4109aa1ade2cf8cc23e3f2e5de7be9 https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/350219198/real-milk-thief-pay-damage https://japantoday.com/category/national/14-tokyo-students-taken-to-hospital-after-eating-spicy-chips BEN68 🌐 AtomicHub: https://wax.atomichub.io/profile/5lpay.wam ✖️ Twitter: https://twitter.com/ben68_udu 📱 Discord: BEN68 (Upland Down Under) ✅ Play Upland: If you use this link to download Upland, you will receive a 50% bonus on your first in-game currency purchase https://r.upland.me/T1Jk --------------------------------- Check out all things MVE in the Podcast world: 🎙️Spotify: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/upland-down-under 🎙️Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1583860609 --------------------------------- INTRO / OUTRO 📻 Backing Music by The Nasty Hooks: https://soundcloud.com/thenastyhooks --------------------------------- Want to create live streams like this? Check out StreamY