Hey Waivly Crew! 🌊 Mastercard has partnered with Immutable X and other Web3 companies to enable easy and safe NFT purchases with fiat. Meta is planning to launch a hang-out option on its Quest VR headset later this week.
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Mastercard dives into NFTs with new partnerships
Over the weekend, Mastercard announced plans to widen access to the NFT market through the use of card payments.
To do this, Mastercard is working to enable NFT commerce with the help of various Web3 companies, including Immutable X, Candy Digital, The Sandbox, Mintable, Spring, Nifty Gateway, and Web3 infrastructure provider MoonPay.
The integration will enable users to purchase NFTs in an "easier and safer" manner by using their Mastercard cards instead of crypto to complete transactions. The payments giant also said it would focus on customer safety and protecting user data throughout the process.
A recent survey conducted by Mastercard revealed that 45% of 35,000 people in 40 countries have purchased an NFT or would consider buying one. In addition, over half sought more flexibility and wanted the option to pay with crypto for everyday purchases, or use a credit or debit card to buy an NFT.
“We’re working with these companies to allow people to use their Mastercard cards for NFTs purchases, whether that’s on one of these companies’ marketplaces or using their crypto services,” said Raj Dhamodharan, Mastercard’s executive vice president of digital asset and blockchain products and partnerships.
According to Dhamodharan, with 2.9 billion Mastercard cards worldwide, “this change could have a big impact on the NFT ecosystem.”
Meta introduces a new social hangout feature to Quest VR
Meta last year announced at Connect that they would be adding a hang-out option to its Quest virtual reality headset. Now it will begin to roll out with its v41 update, which is expected to come next week.
The hangout feature is called Horizon Home, which allows Quest VR owners to put on their headsets and directly invite other Quest users to participate in social experiences in the metaverse. Recently, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg released a video showcasing a demo of the system alongside Alex Honnold, the Free Solo climber.
According to Zuckerberg, Quest users will have more options to customize their Home space, but those options are “currently in development.” Horizon Home is similar to Meta’s Facebook Spaces, which was a 2017 app where Facebook users could play minigames with their friends and even take virtual selfies with them. Meta shut down Spaces back in 2019 to clear the way for Horizon. The addition of Horizon would allow Quest to be a more social experience rather than a solitary one.
The Waves
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🌐 Jack Dorsey’s TBD is building “Web5”
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Seth Green pays $260K to recover his stolen Bored Ape NFT
Comedian and actor Seth Green has paid 165 ETH (more than $260,000) to see the safe return of his Bored Ape NFT he lost in a phishing attack last month, according to BuzzFeed News.
Green announced on Twitter in May that he fell for a phishing scam and had four high-valued NFTs stolen: Bored Ape #8398, Mutant Apes #9964 and #19182, and Doodle #7546.
Notably, Green planned to feature his Bored Ape in an animated show he had been working on since purchasing last year. This introduced a major concern for Green, as because he no longer owned the commercial rights to the NFT, the show couldn’t move forward.
This concern was brought to rest on Thursday when the actor confirmed during a Twitter Space that the NFT “is home.” Etherscan data shows the NFT was returned by "Mr. Cheese," aka "DarkWing84."
Following the phishing attack, DarkWing84 told Buzzfeed stated they purchased the NFT “in good faith” and had no plans to return it. Green went on to threaten legal action against DarkWing84 before confirming that they connected to discuss a deal.
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