article thumbnail

The metaverse could be tech’s next trillion-dollar opportunity: These are the companies making it a reality

CB Insights

The metaverse requires compute and processing infrastructure that can support both big data flows and low latency. However, these transactions are all based on each world’s unique cryptocurrency. For example, The Sandbox’s cryptocurrency, Sand, can be traded on exchanges like Gemini , Crypto.com , and Binance.

Company 101
article thumbnail

The Tale of Money 2020 Vegas, Last Part

Tomorrow's Transactions

But my sense of Venmo is that it suceeded because of social media integration so I suspect that Zelle’s long term role will be as an API for other platforms (e.g., I tend to focus on the business models around identity, but I’m sure there are others in big data, analytics, risk management and so on. Pretty impressive.