Digital Bytes 15th June 2022

Metaverse as an educational tool, PayPal: super-app or Trojan horse?, Terra's collapse and tokenised funds

Welcome to this week's Digital Bytes where we have analysis on the following topics:

The role of metaverse as an educational tool - when it comes to education, learning and training, there is a need for innovation. Schools and education centres do more than simply teach; they actively shape and prepare young people for the future - something which goes beyond the workplace, lecture theatres, classrooms and colleges. The metaverse has many established uses in the digital age but when it comes to education there are speculations as to how the metaverse can significantly improve the sector.always

PayPal: super-app or Trojan horse? - PayPal is now allowing its 300million clients to trade crypto. This is presumably being driven by client demand since in a survey in conjunction with Deloitte, 75% of merchants are looking to accept crypto as a form of payment. Are we seeing the rise of a super-app from PayPal, or a Trojan horse, as it creates the infrastructure for others to move between digi…