Technology

Philip Rosedale was a digital pioneer in creating Second Life, one of the first virtual World's and still a leading social platform for adults. Linden Lab, Second Life’s parent company, now has two decades of experience in managing an online world, including developing a virtual currency traded globally. He talks to Global Finance about what they’ve learned and larger hopes for the metaverse.

Fighting in Ukraine spurs factoring and digitalization adoption.

Banks like JPMorgan are mostly on Decentraland—a 3D virtual world run by the nonprofit—to learn.

Analysts say the cryptocurrency’s spike in price has more to do with inflation fears than pent-up demand for nascent ETFs.