1. In June, the course "Fashion in the Metaverse" is launched from a well-known Italian university

The Florentine fashion school Polimoda, together with the creative agency Monogrid, launched a short Fashion for Metaverse course. The 4-week program is suitable for students with a background in fashion design and focuses on the development of digital apparel and accessories for the Metaverse.

The course covers topics such as:

• Fashion design in the metaverse.
• digital culture.
• Design development.
• Art management.
• The future of fashion and marketing in the metaverse.

Starting with avatar clothing design, students will explore the fashion subculture, including digital design and simulation of real clothing, as well as importing ready-made designs on the blockchain.

“We made this course in response to the growing demand for professional skills in the digital fashion industry. It will enhance the creativity of tomorrow's designers. Students will be able to integrate their skills from traditional fashion into virtual worlds; from the catwalk to the metaverse. We enable people to express themselves through 3D digital avatars,” said Polimoda director Massimiliano Giornetti.

Italian creative studio Monogrid is engaged in the creation of websites, applications, installations, projects in augmented and virtual reality, video, 3D and motion graphics.

The first stream of the course starts on June 27, 2022. The price is € 5, the language is English.

2. What will Bitcoin City look like?

The President of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, unveiled the development plans for Bitcoin City and shared his architectural model with the words: “The city is developing beautifully.”
The leader of the Central American country noted that there will be many trees in the city, as well as a blue sea. The scale model reflects landmarks and airports at night. A square with the letter B, the symbol of bitcoin, will be built in the city center. The architect placed several tourist attractions in Bitcoin City, such as a golden cryptocurrency monument and hexagon-shaped canals. In addition, excursions around the volcano will be held in the city, the energy of which will be used for mining.

The city will have a round shape, similar to the plan of cities built by Alexander of Macedon. It will be located in the eastern part of La Uniona, not far from the Konchagua volcano.

The President took advantage of the current drop in prices in the cryptocurrency market to buy an additional 500 BTC. Currently, the country's reserve is estimated at 2301 BTC.

3. Cryptocurrency Luna collapsed almost to $0. Within a week, its value fell from $85 to 1 cent.

Luna is a “child” cryptocurrency of the stablecoin Terra USD (UST) pegged to the dollar. It was believed that by buying UST, an investor acquires, as it were, a dollar, only a digital one. The emission of UST is tied to demand - when it grows, stablecoins are issued and the Luna cryptocurrency is burned. When demand drops, UST is burned and Luna is minted. This was how the stability of the UST was maintained. However, on the night of May 10, the stablecoin untied from the dollar and fell to 26 cents. After that, investors began to sell off Luna in an unsuccessful attempt to bring the stablecoin back to $1.

Other major stablecoins followed, but so far not so catastrophically. For example, the largest stablecoin Tether, also pegged to the dollar, but, unlike Luna, backed by real assets, fell up to 95 cents.

4. How to distinguish the real metaverse from the usual virtual world or game?

Here are the 7 key drivers of the ugly metaverse:

• Decentralization
  The platform is not at the mercy of one or more influencers. Every user with any number of digital internal assets is the owner of the metaverse. Pros: the probability of losing your crypto-property is very small and the absence of censorship in one form or another. Cons: in case of force majeure, when a support service would come in handy, as in centralized applications, no one can help you.
• Property rights
  Most successful video games make money by selling in-game items. In fact, players do not buy them, but rent them. If users massively switch to another game or the developers decide to end the project unilaterally, then the players lose access to their property forever.
  The digital world on web3 should follow the same logic as the physical world: when you buy something, you own it. This is yours.
• Independent identity
  A set of information about an individual that she can manage, share with any private person or public institution, and revoke access to it at any time she wishes. As in the real world, human identity must be securely stored in the metaverse, regardless of centralized databases (as in Meta, Google).
• Interoperability
  The ability to mix and match software elements with each other, like Lego blocks. Each piece of software for the metaverse must be written once and then simply reused. The Metaverse should fundamentally offer users high quality and open technical standards. You can create something in Minecraft or Roblox, but later it is very difficult to transfer it outside of these worlds and integrate it, for example, into other metaverses.
• Openness
  The previous point is impossible in the absence of open source code. In the true metaverse, any user can adapt, rework, modify, or import existing code.
  Openness leads to more secure software, makes economic terms more understandable to all parties, and removes information asymmetries. These properties can create more fair and equitable systems.
• Community voting rights
  In the metaverse, all stakeholders should have a voice, in proportion to their participation in the management of the system (number of tokens). In the DAO, this principle is of paramount importance. This allows you to create communities that are built and managed by their users rather than a single organization. Creators, investors and users come together to collaborate and strive for a common good - the development of a cool metaverse.
• social immersion
  Big tech companies claim that virtual and mixed reality technologies are the basic ingredient for a successful metaverse. This is due to the fact that these corporations want to become the dominant suppliers of equipment for virtual 3D worlds (helmets, goggles, suits). The Metaverse doesn't have to exist in VR/AR, users can hang out, work together, chat with friends and have fun without expensive devices. Of course, it would be cool to have a high level of immersiveness, but accessibility should come first.

  Сonclusion
  If a virtual world lacks any of the above principles, it cannot be considered a fully formed metaverse, in our opinion. We believe that this is as obvious as the fact that the metaverse cannot exist without the fundamental foundations of web3 technology.

5.Thailand will start selling its territory in the metaverse, where you can buy durians.

From May 30, digital versions of sites in several districts of Bangkok will be put up for sale.
The project is created together with the local crypto exchange Bitkub.
The statement was made by the Minister of Digital Development of the country at the Thailand Crypto Expo 2022 conference.

As part of the negotiations, the companies even established a "land department". Its representatives said that the holders will receive profitability from staking plots.

In the Thai Metaverse now they are actively building infrastructure that allows creating new options for using the sites. The project hosts hackathons, where they come up with options to increase the price of digital land.
For example, we have already implemented the possibility add markets with the famous tropical fruit - durian.
Starting May 30, plots will be available for 33 KUSDT, 3 KUB or 333 MVP.

6. In France, they began to sell eternal passes to music festivals and nightclubs in the form of NFTs

Clubbing TV, a French TV channel dedicated to the culture of electronic music, launches an NFT collection The List out of 7 tokens. All of them provide access to many club events around the world.
The list of partners includes Amnesia Ibiza (Spain), World Club Dome (Germany), Supersonic (India), We Are Fstvl (England), Caprices (Switzerland), Rampage Open Air (Belgium), Barcelona Beach Festival (Spain) and others.

NFT looks like a bracelet to the club, the tokens have 130 attributes (color, style, inscription, etc.). The creators used generative 3D rendering.
Some examples of slogans include “I play vinyl”, “You are not on the list”, “We prefer Z to A”, “Techno”, “Burning Man changed my life” and “I hate airports”.

2 owners of the rarest bracelets will receive its physical version. 5 thousand owners will also have access to events in the Decentraland metaverse (organized by DJenerates and Decentralgames).

The Klubcoin cryptocurrency (100 thousand tokens or $500) is also sewn into the penetrations. They can be spent on cocktails. In the future, the creators will launch a DAO to manage the Clubbing TV podcast and show. Now you can join the whitelist of the project and follow the release date.

This is another clear example that NFTs are far from being just pictures of animals. We believe we are in the early days of NFT and that there will be hundreds of sophisticated and creative applications of this technology in the future.

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