THE:Facebook announced a change of its name to “Meta”

AtConnect2021,aneventheldbyFacebookonOctober28,2021,FacebookFounderandCEOMarkZuckerbergofficiallyintroduced“Meta”,thenewnameof“Facebook”,toreflectitsfocusonbuildingthenextchapterofonlinesocialexperiences,knownasthe"metaverse."“Webelievethemetaversecanenablebettersocialexperiencesthananythingthatexiststoday,andwewilldedicateourenergytohelpingachieveitspotential”,saidMark.

Meta計劃讓用戶在Facebook和Instagram上展示NFT，并討論推出NFT市場:1月20日消息，幾位知情人士透露，Meta計劃讓用戶在旗下社交平臺Facebook和Instagram上展示NFT。同時還在研究一個原型，幫助用戶鑄造NFT。其中兩名人士表示，Meta還討論了推出一個市場，供用戶購買和出售NFT。（英國《金融時報》）[2022/1/20 9:02:25]

However,asofnownootherapparentchangeshavebeenobservedotherthanthechangeinitsnameandassociatedparameters.Itscoreapp,Facebook,isnotchangingthenameeither.ThisisconsistentwithMark’sstatementinhisfounderletterthat“Ourmissionremainsthesame—it’sstillaboutbringingpeopletogether.Ourappsandtheirbrandsaren’tchangingeither.”

證券時報頭版評論：元宇宙的未來不止于Facebook的想象:10月30日消息，證券時報頭版內容中包括一篇名為《元宇宙的未來不止于Facebook的想象》的文章，其中提到Facebook改名為Meta事件，對元宇宙的定義，元宇宙需要秩序，文章最后得出結論：從Facebook的視角看，元宇宙是連接人的下一個前沿技術，正如最初的社交網站一樣。但元宇宙仍處于非常早期的萌芽階段，人的連接只是其中一環，未來遠不止于此。[2021/10/30 6:21:19]

Criticismhasbeenprovokinggiventhetimingofthisnamechange–i.e.amidthetechnicalissuesandwhistle-blowermatterithasbeenfacingsinceearlyOctober2021.InthearticlewrittenbyALEXANDRAS.LEVINE,“Somecriticsarguethattimingisnocoincidenceandthatthenewnameandprojectarepartofacrisisresponsestrategyaimedatdistractinglawmakers,investorsandthepublic.”

動態 | 風投公司a16z回應Facebook Libra治理問題：任何節點都將是平等的:據fortune消息，風投公司Andreessen Horowitz（a16z）發言表示：任何節點在Libra的治理問題上都將是平等的。與Andreessen一起，PayPal、Coinbase、Visa和MasterCard也是Libra協會的一部分，所有成員一同負責對Libra代幣的監督。 前司法部檢察官Haun表示，該協會面臨的挑戰是推動項目的發展，以促進創新，同時保護消費者。例如，若法院要求Libra追蹤用戶身份，協會應該如何應對等。[2019/6/21]

NewYorkRepresentativeAlexandriaOcasio-CortezreactedtothisonherTwitteraccount,calling“Meta”as“cancertodemocracy”.“Metaasin“weareacancertodemocracymetastasizingintoaglobalsurveillanceandpropagandamachineforboostingauthoritarianregimesanddestroyingcivilsociety…forprofit!”,Alexandriaposted.

動態 | Facebook將Coinbase廣告列入白名單:Coinbase聯合創始人Brian Armstrong今日在其社交媒體配圖稱：“今年早些時候Facebook禁止了加密貨幣廣告的發布。我們（Coinbase）現在已經被加入白名單之列，將會向更多的用戶介紹開放式的金融體系。”[2018/7/21]

Sowhatisa“metaverse”?AccordingtoWikipedia,thewordwasinventedbyNealStephensoninhis1992sciencefictionnovelSnowCrash,where“humans,asavatars,interactwitheachotherandsoftwareagents,inathree-dimensionalvirtualspacethatusesthemetaphoroftherealworld”.InitsnewspublishedonSeptember27,2021,Facebookdescribes“metaverse”as“asetofvirtualspaceswhereyoucancreateandexplorewithotherpeoplewhoaren’tinthesamephysicalspaceasyou.You’llbeabletohangoutwithfriends,work,play,learn,shop,createandmore.It’snotnecessarilyaboutspendingmoretimeonline—it’saboutmakingthetimeyoudospendonlinemoremeaningful.”

Otherorganisationsarepassionatelyembracingthehottrendof“Metaverse”aswell.AOFEX,agloballeadingserviceplatformofdigitalassets,hasalreadylistedmultiplemetaverseprojectssuchasMANA、SAND、ILVaheadofmanyofitspeers.ThoughAOFEXhasalwaysplacedsecurityasitstopprioritywhilestrivesforconstantimprovementsofitsplatform’suserexperience,ithasalsobeenfocusingonexpandingthedigitalassetsitoffersonitsplatform.“Supportingprojectsthatarerunningattheforefrontofthemetaversebringsitsusersasimple,safeandsecuremarketplacetobuyandstorethesedigitalassets”,commentedAOFEXrepresentative.

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