New House Financial Services Committee chair wants to delay crypto tax changes U.S. Republican Representative Patrick McHenry called for clarification on a “poorly” written digital asset tax provision in a letter to the Treasury. — Read on cointelegraph.com/news/new-house-financial-services-committee-chair-wants-to-delay-crypto-tax-changes

PayPal Working With Crypto Wallet MetaMask to Offer Easy Way to Buy Crypto Users will be able to buy and transfer ether from PayPal to MetaMask.  By Elizabeth Napolitano Dec 14, 2022 at 11:00 a.m. MST — Read on http://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/12/14/paypal-partners-with-crypto-wallet-metamask-to-offer-easy-way-to-buy-crypto/

NFTs The Different Types of NFTs: A Simple Guide From fashion for avatars to social profile pictures to digital collectibles, the NFT ecosystem continues to expand and evolve, even in the face of the chilly crypto winter. Here are eight different kinds of NFTs you should know. — Read on http://www.coindesk.com/learn/the-different-types-of-nfts-a-simple-guide/

Montreal-based Lighthouse rolled out an open metaverse navigation engine that allows users to find places to visit in virtual worlds. — Read on http://www.theblock.co/post/194508/lighthouse-metaverse-lonely

NFTs could help solve diamond certification fraud Non-fungible tokens are being used to serve as digital GIA diamond certificates to ensure immutability, transparency and proof-of-ownership. — Read on cointelegraph.com/news/nfts-could-help-solve-diamond-certification-fraud

Build, demolish, and trade NFTs in one place with Bluemoon Metaverse As the Metaverse expands, the demand for users to have control over the virtual world becomes evident, and one new project seeks to address that. — Read on cointelegraph.com/news/build-demolish-and-trade-nfts-in-one-place-with-bluemoon-metaverse

Starbucks opens up its web3 loyalty program and NFT community to first beta testers — Read on techcrunch.com/2022/12/08/starbucks-opens-up-its-blockchain-based-loyalty-program-and-nft-community-to-first-beta-testers/

A new Web3 music platform from Warner Music Group and new Punk-inspired music from Steve Aoki and 3LAU are coming in 2023. — Read on blockworks.co/news/music-nfts-beat-the-bear

The major record label continues its streak of Web3 partnerships by teaming with a new music and collectibles platform built on Polygon. — Read on decrypt.co/116533/warner-music-group-polygon-music-nfts-lgnd

Tokyo education board to launch learning platform on metaverse for truant children — Read on mainichi.jp/english/articles/20221205/p2a/00m/0na/013000c