Ilaria Vanni and Chiara Chiommino interview's with the italian lawyer Carlo Alberto Micheli. Micheli works as economic consultant for companies and professionists in the world of cryptocurrencies. Italy is waiting on a new law about cryptocurrencies but it has not a bad position all over Europe for crypto regulations. We talked about his career and asked him goos advices about the top investiments.

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Can blockchain technology be a catalyst to create value in finance 2.0? One of the most important task of transition to digital finance 2.0 is that it has to be applied with all appropriate safeguards. To build a more advanced society in economic and social terms the great challenge is to advance as fast as the industry does and transfer this knowledge to a range of different departments across the bank, from technological and operational development to the legal and risk teams, in order to work in the same direction and with a clear vision at the service of customers. New business models are continuously emerging and operating with automatic liquidity for their assets, which are often distributed globally. This new space should be able to positively impact society and improve the coverage of our needs, thereby increasing the productivity and security of the system.

Let's try to ask our question with the recent words by Alfonso Gómez, CEO of BBVA Switzerland Gómez spoke at the Fifth Blockchain and Digital Asset Forum hosted by online publication El Confidencial and he stresses that "as a bank, our role as depositary and custodian of digital assets is the cornerstone of trust in this system. Our mission should mean playing an absolutely critical role in providing our customers with an assured source of liquidity that ensures fully fledged convergence between a traditional and digital world, now and in the future." He also points out that "we believe in blockchain technology as a source of liquidity and efficiency in the system. When digital assets are divisible, it generates a democratization not only in terms of access to technology, but also as a form of access to a fairer society."

SOURCE: https://www.bbva.com/en/traditional-banking-in-the-crypto-world-a-pathway-to-enhanced-trust/

Ilaria Vanni interviews Bettina Von Stamm. Bettina has been a visionary thinker and doer in the field of innovation for over 30 years. Whether running leadership seminars and workshops or speaking at conferences, whether coaching, mentoring or teaching MBAs and executives, Bettina brings her contagious positive energy to bear to inspire, and open minds. Her credibility arises from an approach that combines her deep insights with latest insights from scientific and social science research, and her passion for and knowledge of her work make her fun and engaging to work with.

 

There is so much to be interested about the inaugural Dubai Metaverse Assembly, first announced by Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed, Crown Prince of Dubai, and organised by the Dubai Future Foundation, is set to take place on September 28 and 29. As Ian Oxborrow underlines in The National News.

The assembly will establish a global platform for launching discussions that will help to identify the opportunities of the metaverse and its potential, state news agency Wam reported.

The Dubai Future Foundation said that the assembly aimed to position Dubai as one of the best cities in the world by investing in promising economic opportunities, adopting and deploying metaverse technology, and developing digital infrastructure that supports global transformations and the digital economy.

PHOTO: UAE Government Media Office

Ilaria Vanni interviews Silvio Luchetti, a young web 3.0 expert based in Switzerland. Luchetti is also founder and director of Startup Grind Lugano, an association that aims to create and nurture the local entrepreneurial ecosystem Web3.0

Ethereum meets the green. The cryptocurrency platform has in fact completed, after years of delay and frenetic experimentation, the so-called 'Merge', or the upgrade that allows its infrastructure to become more sustainable and reduce energy consumption. "This is the first step in Ethereum's great journey towards a more mature system," says Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin. "For me, Merge symbolizes the difference between the early stages of Ethereum and the Ethereum that we have always wanted. This is a great moment for our ecosystem."

For the cryptocurrency industry, this is a rare moment of rejoicing in a difficult year, which saw $ 1 trillion burn from the industry, forcing several companies into bankruptcy. Eco-friendly routes, first introduced to U.S-based users last year, offer to show more fuel-efficient routes instead of the fastest ones.

“This technology is made possible thanks to insights from the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and data from the European Environment Agency", the company said in a blog post.

Users can see the eco-friendly route marked with a leaf label and choose fuel-efficient routing among the new options. The company is also launching a new feature for car owners to choose their vehicle’s engine type to get personalized suggestions for fuel-efficient routes best suited for the engine.

Three professionist in different fields (architecture, environmental psychology and blockchain) tell about their adventure with a new You Tube channel that wants to investigate about the new players working on the new digital space that will be part of our future lives. The point to underline is the sinergy of all the professional fields to work together on the metaverse as we do in the real life. The metaverse will help us if we will be able to create a dialogue between all the needs that we try to answear also in everyday life.

UNITED STATES - How do we understand if something new is becaming part of our lives? Here at The Meta Economist we think this happens when the "new" overruns into everyday life. MTV’s Video Music Awards, the international prize linked to music video, this year will have a new category: the award for Best Metaverse Performace. The show of the VMA this year will be back in Newark, N.J., air on Aug. 28th. The awards show focuses on the music stars and their music video and is now trying to head off new generations, since the audience of the last years is recently very low compared to the millions recorded in earlier 2000.

The nominees are based on performances that took place metaverse platforms as Roblox, Fortnite, and Minecraft. Ariana Grande, Charli XCX, Justin Bieber, Twenty One Pilots, and K-pop groups BLACKPINK and BTS. One of this six artists will win the Best Metaverse Performace. Voting for the category ends this Friday.

So the question is: will the metaverse already changed our lives and our habits? Will Mtv's audience grow because of this new marketing choice? We will see after the night of the show.

Source: Fortune

Ilaria Vanni interviews Gabriele Cavargna Bontosi. Gabriele has a Master in Engineering from the Turin Polytechnic, and holds an MBA from the International University of Monaco. He started his career in Consulting to later transition to the luxury industry. In 2017 he recognised the breakthrough potential of the blockchain technology and cofounded Dexlab, a venture aiming at fostering the global adoption of the decentralized economy, where he currently serves as COO. Fascinated about decentralized governance, he currently serves as a core Team member at PieDAO, one of the earliest example of decentralized collective intelligence built by DeFi veterans, and the community of choice of many of the best known DeFi anons and OGs.