📝#91: Virtual Play, Real Pay

Roblox partners with Shopify. ENS integrates PayPal and Venmo. NFL partners with Bitpanda. Ford and Toyota file 43 blockchain patents. Animoca Brands Japan partners with Tokyo Stupid Games & more.

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📝#90: Priceless

Mastercard brings Bitcoin to 100M merchants globally crypto debit card.

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📝#89: Sky High💨

📝#89: Death Sentence for NFTs?

SEC has sent Wells notice to OpenSea. Manchester City launched "Man City Virtual Etihad Stadium" on Sony’s FavoriteSpaceTM. PGA TOUR partnered with Stratton Studios to develop "PGA TOUR RISE."

📝#88: Fight For Freedom

Telegram founder Pavel Durov arrested, faces 20 years. X releases new improvements to Grok 2. Sony launches new blockchain. Tether teases about it's new stablecoin.

📝#88: Adidas, Walmart & Drake

Adidas partners with Doodles. Pantera Capital eyes TON for gaming. Crypto.com X UEFA. Drake's new memecoin. The Sandbox partners with leading Indian content company.

📝#87: Old Gold vs. New Gold

Norway's and Swiss National Bank buy “bitcoin”. Optimism teases its Superchain. JPMorgan has launched its own LLM Suite for its 60,000 employees. Perplexity AI partners with Polymarket.

📝#87: Apple Opens to Crypto 💥

Apple brings USDC to 1.4B iPhones, AC Milan partners with Bitpanda, MLB launches an NFT marketplace, and Lamborghini makes its biggest Web3 move with Animoca Brands.

📝#86: When Wall Street meets Bitcoin

Morgan Stanley jumps on the Bitcoin ETF bandwagon, pitching to clients like it's the next big thing. Meanwhile Polymarket touched $100m in volume & AI Pins miss the mark & more.

📝#86: Web3 Loyalty Revival

Adidas x Doodles. Cult Gaia's Web3 membership program with TYB. California puts 42M cars onchain. PUBG Mobile x Lamborghini. Türkiye blocks Roblox. Olympic esports heads to Saudi Arabia in 2025.

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📝#85: Game Changer

SEC's token ruling. ManU's NFT game. Olympics goes Roblox. Adidas launches on Fortnite. Bitcoin announcements. OpenAI launches SearchGPT & more.

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📝#84: Disney 2.0

Animoca Brands partners with TON. Pudgy rebuilds Disney. Louis Vuitton launches new phygital. Balenciaga and Coach enter gaming. Ferrari now accepts bitcoin. Spot ETH ETF launches in the US. Meta's most powerful model yet.

📝#83: A Pivotal Moment

Versace goes Fortnite. Vans goes Roblox. Pudgy Penguins's new Telegram mini-game. Doodles launch movie. Blackrock doubles down on Bitcoin. US 210,000 strategic Bitcoin reserve? SEC approves ETH ETFs.

📝#82: Sports, Payments & Politics

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📝#81: Adidas' NFT Revival

📝#80: Mass Adoption?