{"id":1531,"date":"2022-07-04T09:18:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-04T04:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/k1arts.com\/?p=1531"},"modified":"2022-07-04T12:52:45","modified_gmt":"2022-07-04T08:22:45","slug":"ebay-files-trademark-applications-covering-wide-range-of-metaverse-nft-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/k1arts.com\/?p=1531","title":{"rendered":"Ebay Files Trademark Applications Covering Wide Range of Metaverse, NFT Services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>E-commerce giant Ebay has filed two trademark applications covering a wide range of products and services relating to the metaverse and non-fungible tokens (NFTs). <\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"LTR\" style=\"text-align: left;\">One day before Ebay filed the two trademark applications, the company announced that it has acquired the e-commerce platform it began allowing NFT sales in May last year, citing a \u201cmassive wave of attention\u201d in the area.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"LTR\">This month, McKinsey and Company said that the metaverse could generate $5 trillion by 2030. \u201cBy 2030, it is entirely plausible that more than 50 percent of live events could be held in the metaverse,\u201d the company noted.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"LTR\">In addition, a survey conducted in April showed that the metaverse will be the most popular place for crypto, with 70% of respondents agreeing that \u201ccryptocurrency and blockchain technology advancements will be critical to shaping the future of the metaverse.\u201d Moreover, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/citi-predicts-metaverse-13-trillion-opportunity-5-billion-users\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Citigroup <\/a>predicted that the metaverse could be a $13 trillion opportunity with 5 billion users by 2030 while <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/goldman-sachs-metaverse-8-trillion-opportunity\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Goldman Sachs<\/a> sees the metaverse as an $8 trillion opportunity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>E-commerce giant Ebay has filed two trademark applications covering a wide range of products and services relating to the metaverse &#8230; <a class=\"cz_readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/k1arts.com\/?p=1531\"><i class=\"fa czico-107-web-link\"><\/i><span>Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1532,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93],"tags":[100,96,102,101],"class_list":["post-1531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-digitalasset","tag-k1arts","tag-thefuture","tag-tokens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/k1arts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/k1arts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/k1arts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/k1arts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/k1arts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1531"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/k1arts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1542,"href":"https:\/\/k1arts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531\/revisions\/1542"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/k1arts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/k1arts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/k1arts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/k1arts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}