On this week’s show, crypto drops again, Cardano nears a major blockchain upgrade, British crypto exchange gets hacked, Upland Genesis Week 2024 wraps up, Midtown Terrace in Upland gets cratefied, new K-pop meet-and-greet metaverse, The Sandbox metaverse raises $20M at a $1B cap, McDonald’s Singaporean metaverse, why you should become AI literate, Apple’s massive AI announcement, South Korean NFT regulation, FBI cracks down on NFT monkey business, new AI-gaming startup aiming to redefine the web3 gaming landscape, and SuperGaming clarifies Web3 integration rumors. Plus, as always, we ground ourselves with some real-world insights with a few doses of reality from the Meatsuitaverse.

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https://coinmarketcap.com/

https://cryptoslate.com/cardanos-age-of-voltaire-nears-with-major-blockchain-upgrade/

https://coingape.com/british-crypto-exchange-lykke-halts-amid-22m-suspected-hack/

https://x.com/UplandMe

https://x.com/ben68_udu

https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2024-06-09/business/tech/SKT-launches-new-Kpop-meet-and-greet-space-on-metaverse-platform-ifland/2064421

https://www.cryptonewsz.com/the-sandbox-raises-20m-at-1b-cap-to-grow-open-metaverse-creator-economy/

https://www.cryptonewsz.com/mcdonalds-launches-my-happy-place-metaverse-in-singapore/

https://www.oakridger.com/story/news/local/2024/06/10/why-you-should-become-ai-literate/74001872007/

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/apple-wwdc-2024-ios-18-tim-cook-keynote/

https://cryptodaily.co.uk/2024/06/south-korea-fsc-to-regulate-mass-produced-nfts-as-regular-cryptocurrencies

https://www.cdr-news.com/categories/competition-and-business-crime/20821-fbi-cracks-down-on-nft-monkey-business

https://www.entrepreneur.com/en-au/technology/this-ai-gaming-layer-3-startup-is-on-a-mission-to-redefine/475380

https://www.cointrust.com/market-news/supergaming-clarifies-rumors-about-web3-integration-in-indus-game

https://www.news.com.au/national/mark-dreyfus-australia-is-losing-60-billion-a-year-to-organised-crime/news-story/6a349b5cc08a76d15e33b0e867ccbfc4

https://www.stuff.co.nz/society/350305702/woman-attacked-police-officer-he-tried-prevent-her-walking-helicopter-blades

https://japantoday.com/category/national/japan-association-of-translators-condemns-ai-manga-translation

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