Despite the moribund market, many hedge funds, family offices, venture funds and even pension funds and endowments are seriously considering the long-term benefits of including cryptocurrencies in their portfolios. We know that they are, and the reasons for the merger are explained below: Ethereum could have a significant impact on their future allocations. (CoinDesk Chief Content Officer Michael Casey) … “Call me the happiest cynic in the world, because when I predicted the complete and catastrophic failure of Facebook’s rebranding as ‘meta’ that began less than a year later.” , because I really didn’t expect it all to be unraveled so soon. Horizon Worlds, Meta’s intended metaverse, came out in December, but it’s gone downhill from there. (CoinDesk Columnist David Z. Morris) … .@MicroStrategy R&D is currently working on enterprise-level applications of #LightningNetwork technology, including Enterprise Lightning Wallet, @saylor said in #BH2022. (CoinDesk Investigative Reporter Anna Baydakova)