Into the Metaverse

Coachella Enters the Metaverse With Giant Parrots

If you were watching the Coachella YouTube livestream on Saturday night, you might have done a double take as giant leafy trees and a Godzilla-sized parrot slowly rose above the stage of the electronic artist Flume.

By Andrew R. Chow April 21, 2022

How to File Taxes If You Used Cryptocurrency in 2021

A guide to navigating tax season for crypto investors, especially as the IRS ramps up its enforcement in this area

By Andrew R. Chow April 12, 2022

Inside the Release of Unreal Engine 5

TIME got exclusive access to developers and artists who have already started using Unreal Engine 5. Here’s what’s under the hood

By Andrew R. Chow April 5, 2022

How Fiction Writers Are Tackling the Metaverse

These works express anxiety about their corporate control and probe into the implications of AI omniscience. They range from hopeful to downright dystopian

By Andrew R. Chow March 31, 2022

What It's Like Working at a DAO

A version of this article was published in TIME’s newsletter Into the Metaverse. Subscribe for a weekly guide to the future of the Internet. You can find past issues of the newsletter here. In January,...

By Andrew R. Chow March 24, 2022

I Spent 80 Minutes Inside Vitalik Buterin's Brain. Here's What I Learned

Vitalik Buterin, the founder of Ethereum, talked to TIME about reducing fees, World of Warcraft and gender equality

By Andrew R. Chow March 21, 2022

Why Most Crypto Backers Are Excited That the Biden Administration Is Wading Into Digital Currency

“I am pretty darn optimistic about it,” says Alexis Ohanian, the co-founder of Reddit who is now a major investor in crypto technology

By Megan McCluskey and Andrew R. Chow March 10, 2022

Exclusive: How Pussy Riot’s Nadya Tolokonnikova Is Using Crypto to Fight for Equality

A version of this article was published in TIME’s newsletter Into the Metaverse. Subscribe for a weekly guide to the future of the Internet. You can find past issues of the newsletter here. Nadya Tolokonnikova...

By Raisa Bruner March 3, 2022

Behind the Scenes at ETHDenver 2022

A dispatch from a dizzying week at one of North America's largest cryptocurrency conferences, featuring Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin and Andrew Yang.

By Andrew R. Chow February 23, 2022

A New Book Traces The Dizzying Rise of Ethereum

In "The Cryptopians," a new book about Ethereum by author Laura Shin, egos clash, decadence flows and small dreams spiral out of control

By Andrew R. Chow February 17, 2022

The Chess Match Behind a $3.6B Bitcoin Seizure

The anatomy of the DOJ operation to seize $3.6 billion Bitcoin stolen in the Bitfinex hack is a cautionary tale in an era of rapid blockchain ascendancy

By Andrew R. Chow February 10, 2022

Debating 'The Problem With NFTs'

While “The Problem With NFTs” has been viewed more than 4 million times, and met with an approving roar from other crypto detractors, it was largely ignored on Web 3 Twitter

By Andrew R. Chow February 3, 2022

How Blockchain Could Solve Digital Identity

When Vitalik Buterin, the founder of Ethereum, has been asked lately about his favorite projects being built on the blockchain, he often names Proof of Humanity.

By Andrew R. Chow January 27, 2022

Why Investors Are Buying Virtual Real Estate

A blank square of pixels in a virtual metaverse world like The Sandbox can cost as much as a home in the real world. But investors are buying in

By Raisa Bruner January 20, 2022

The Best and Weirdest Metaverse Products at CES

The Consumer Electronics Show was dominated by metaverse talk. Here are the products that were debuted, from bodysuits to NFT TVs.

By Andrew R. Chow January 13, 2022

How the Metaverse Could Avoid the Ills of Social Media

The OASIS Consortium, a think tank that brings together execs of metaverse platforms, published some of the first comprehensive safety standards for Web 3.

By Andrew R. Chow January 6, 2022

How Digital Twins Are Transforming the World

Digital twins—exact digital re-creations of objects or environments—are being used to replicate factory floors, car prototypes and internal organs

By Andrew R. Chow December 30, 2021

The Best and Worst of NFTs in 2021

Here are the biggest developments, best NFT art projects and most worrying trends, according to artist and blockchain coder Rhea Myers.

By Andrew R. Chow December 23, 2021

Frances Haugen Is 'Super Scared' About the Metaverse

Documents show Facebook knew far more about the harms of its products than it ever let on. Will it take safety in the metaverse seriously?

By Billy Perrigo December 16, 2021

Behind the Scenes at Art Basel Miami

NFTs took over Art Basel Miami this year. Here's what TIME saw there, from body mapping to property speculation to pure hedonism.

By Andrew R. Chow and Raisa Bruner December 9, 2021

Can NFTs Challenge the Music Industry?

Independent musicians like Daniel Allan are turning to NFTs in the hopes of carving out a living outside of the record label system

By Andrew R. Chow December 2, 2021

What Can Metaverse Builders Learn From Second Life?

So there’s plenty that the current builders of the metaverse can learn from Second Life, both for better and worse.

By Andrew R. Chow November 26, 2021

Why TIME Is Launching a New Newsletter on the Metaverse

I’d like to define the metaverse, for the purposes of this newsletter, as the ways in which our physical and digital selves are becoming increasingly blurred

By Andrew R. Chow November 18, 2021

Into the Metaverse

Crypto's Layoffs Are Just Beginning, Experts Warn

A New Congressional Bill Aims To Spur Crypto's Growth

Bitcoin Is Coming to Your 401(k), If Your Employer Allows It

Influencers Are Scamming Their Fans Through Crypto. Here’s How Their Tactics Have Evolved.