On this week’s show, it's raining blood as crypto dumps with over $1 Billion USD liquidated from the market, crypto hackers buy Ethereum dip using stolen funds, Sizzle Season melts down into and begins in Upland, Sparklet airdop platform update after some algorithm shenanigans, Meta burns another $4.5B on metaverse in Q2 while preparing for AI growth, Nvidia targets metaverse with OpenUSD NIM microservices, Nvidia delays next-generation AI chip with huge implications for the sector, OpenAI has a ‘highly accurate’ tool to detect AI content but no release plans, tokenization of the music industry with music NFTs, DraftKings shuts down its NFT Marketplace amid civil lawsuit, Notcoin introduces new story-driven WEB3 game featuring Lost Dogs NFTs and WOOF Token, and Manchester United Launches Web3 fantasy game on Tezos. 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 ----------- ⚠️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://www.latestly.com/socially/technology/cryptocurrency-crash-over-usd-1-billion-liquidated-from-crypto-market-in-past-24-hours-amid-ongoing-global-financial-crisis-6164720.html https://cointelegraph.com/news/hackers-buy-eth-nomad-bridge-exploit https://uplandme.medium.com/new-gamified-earnings-missions-for-sizzle-season-seasonal-sparklet-airdrops-f4a8d732534b https://uplandme.medium.com/sizzle-season-pass-the-next-evolution-of-collectible-season-passes-c783a70492c0 https://uplandme.medium.com/uplands-sizzle-2024-racing-season-full-throttle-for-the-ultimate-championship-3e0922b2bf2b https://uplandme.medium.com/uplands-sizzle-season-ornament-challenge-ignite-your-creativity-5b2dbf932451 https://discord.com/channels/599294224285827072/748569576568127519/1269748160042106941 https://cointelegraph.com/news/meta-q2-earnings-call-billions-metaverse-reality-labs-ai-growth https://www.techtarget.com/searchenterpriseai/news/366599514/Nvidia-targets-metaverse-with-OpenUSD-NIM-microservices https://www.investors.com/news/technology/nvidia-delays-blackwell-ai-chip/ https://cointelegraph.com/news/open-ai-highly-accurate-tool-detect-ai-content-no-release-plans https://crypto.news/tokenization-of-the-music-industry-with-music-nfts-opinion/ https://www.dimers.com/news/draftkings-shuts-down-reignmakers-nft-marketplace-amid-civil-lawsuit https://beincrypto.com/notcoin-lost-dogs-web3-nft-game-woof/ https://www.coinspeaker.com/manchester-united-web3-game-tezos/ https://www.news.com.au/finance/work/at-work/nsw-public-servants-ordered-back-to-the-office/news-story/9049bd3e4ced27c7a5a2b44697508b55 https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/350361012/climate-protesters-trial-over-train-blockade https://japantoday.com/category/national/japan-sees-hottest-july-since-records-began ----------- 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