26th October 2022 Digital Bytes

Welcome to this week’s Digital Bytes. This week we have analysis on the following topics:

Crypto infrastructure maturing, but what are the institutions really focused on? - global financial institutions have built the infrastructure to buy, sell and store cryptocurrencies. However, given that cryptos are relatively small in terms of adoption and market capitalisation, is there a hidden agenda as we see the financial services sector digitally transforming its products and services?

How to invest in the metaverse - aside from its promising market spectrum, large companies and professional VC and PE firms are increasingly pouring capital into the metaverse. This year Microsoft made its biggest ever acquisition of $70billion, acquiring Activision Blizzard as a move into securing a major spot in the metaverse. Meta (Facebook’s new name) has invested $10billion to acquire and develop its hardware and software offerings with a strong focus on virtual reality (VR) capabilities within the metave…