The metaverse continues to progress despite its bearish sentiment. Fortnite has released a tool called creative 2.0 which is allowing creators to spin up their own games leveraging the Fortnite engine and its resulting in a boom of AAA quality experiences without the need for AAA game studios. This is huge for the UGC wave and will onboard many more people into the virtual space to find new ways to create value. Improbable and M2 also has been demonstrating some amazing technology designed to support the metaverse. One enabling thousands of concurrent users to be in the same shared space and the other a coding standard for developers to build interactive content that is deployable across any virtual environment connected to it. Also, how Twitter leverages this new technology to improve the experience of Twitter be the town hall of human civilization

We discuss how the Federal Reserve is responsible in controlling the economic outcome for the U.S. The mechanics of Inflation and interest rate adjustments and how this affects the economy. Is the banking collapse of recent days a coordinated ploy by the United States Federal Reserve to slow down the economy in order to regulate inflationary pressures? Also, how is China’s positioning in the global economy impacting their decisions to launch their own CBDC and is the anti-China narrative proliferating in media intended to lead the U.S. into a future conflict with China? Also, how will technology and innovation fix the impending problems a financial system collapse, and A.I. and automation poses to the economy of the future. Will humanity escape to the metaverse to find its new purpose.

Boson Protocol is working on building the digital commerce layer for the metaverse and the web3 space as a whole. With entrants like Amazon coming into the space with their own NFT ecosystem, decentralized protocols that can facilitate physical redemption through the use of NFTs are needed. Boson has built the protocol to ensure trust is autonomously setup between buyers and sellers of digital and physical goods without the need for a third party intermediary. Boson has an established presence in the metaverse, specifically Decentraland, and is leveraging the virtual realm to prove the utility of their protocol by allowing in world users to mint rNFTs which grant them the ability to redeem them for real world products. Already major brands are working with Boson to be a part of this network that is open for anyone to leverage.

We recap our experience at ETH Denver and speak on how much tension in regards to U.S. regulatory stance and a whistleblower presenting on main stage the banking collapse and targeted crypto attack that was around the corner. What is driving the U.S. governments desire to label crypto as a systemic risk? What is causing banks like Silvergate, Silicon Valley Bank, and Signature Bank to collapse? Are more banks going to fail and what does this ultimately mean to the status of the dollar and the global economy as a whole. These current events may be the beginning of a financial collapse that will be greater than 2008, how will Bitcoin prove to the planet that it is the safe haven escape away from the issues of traditional finance. Will this be the catalyst to Bitcoin on its way to a million dollar valuation per BTC?

The transcript is from an episode of the Block Runner podcast where the hosts discuss the metaverse, specifically a community called Decentraland. They talk about the metaverse's potential for creativity, fashion shows, and the technology behind it. They mention a grant given to a group called Meta Party to create deployable METAs across multiple lands. Finally, they talk about how brands can leverage METAs technology to be hosted on every single plot of the metaverse.