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Apr 2022
39m 27s

Money in the Metaverse (with Citi’s Roni...

Azeem Azhar
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What is the metaverse, how will we use it, and why might the financial innovations of Web3 and blockchain technology be crucial to its success? Citi’s Ronit Ghose, one of the world’s foremost analysts of technology’s influence on financial innovation, returns to the podcast to discuss how money will function in the metaverse. 
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