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Activision Blizzard president, new CEO of Otherside
📍Daniel Alegre leaves his position at Activision Blizzard to devote himself to the development of the Otherside metaverse of Yuga Labs. The company responsible for the Bored Ape and Mutant Ape crypto collections and the Otherside metaverse, has hired the former CEO of Activision Blizzard, the video game and console company acquired by Microsoft, to lead the development of its immersive virtual world Otherside.
Alegre will serve as president and COO of Activision Blizzard until March 31, when his current contract with the game developer expires. However, Alegre has already secured a position at one of the leading Web3 developers, Yuga Labs.
Wylie Aronow, one of the co-founders of the cryptocurrency firm, said Alegre will bring his invaluable experience in entertainment, e-commerce and managing global strategic partnerships to further the development of its gamified metaverse.
According to Aronow, Alegre will use Bored Ape #3850 as his profile picture and take over as the new CEO of Otherside in mid-2023.
South Korea chooses the Metaverse to strengthen its diplomatic relations with Vietnam
📍Gyeongbuk Province, South Korea relies on the Metaverse to strengthen its ties with Vietnam. Lee Cheol-woo, governor of the South Korean province, has indicated the Metaverse as a tool to expand and strengthen its relations with the Asian country.
According to statements by Cheol-woo during a visit to Vietnam, the diplomatic relations between the two countries, which are celebrating their 30th anniversary, will be enriched by the precious digital opportunities offered by the virtual world in the fourth industrial revolution. Gyeongbuk governor highlighted the creation of a new metaverse-focused digital policy model that will help the region build new sustainable innovation zones, a metaverse-oriented sandbox, new standards and regulatory regimes, and much more; all this with the aim of leading the future and generating new jobs.
Gyeongbuk was declared a Metaverse province in South Korea in February this year.
The whales continue to accumulate bitcoins
📍According to data from Santiment, Bitcoin whales continue to hoard cryptocurrencies in the midst of the bear market. Santiment revealed that Bitcoin and Ethereum whales bought both cryptocurrencies worth over $1.2 billion last week.
Bitcoin wallet addresses, with balances between 100 and 10,000 BTC, acquired $726 million of BTC in just 9 days, the crypto research and analytics platform has revealed. Similarly, Santiment noted that earlier this month, Ethereum whales bought an estimated $561 million worth of ETH, the native cryptocurrency of the Ethereum network.
Santiment analysts pointed to it the whales began to pile up and that, so far this month, 159 new whale addresses have been created in the cryptocurrency industry, representing accelerated growth for these types of addresses over the past 10 months.
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