// Nissan Motor Company officiated its transition into Web 3.0 by collaborating with Grease Monkey Games, an Australian-based video game studio and subsidiary of Animoca brands.

Grease Monkey Games will launch variants of Nissan Cars as playable NFTs in its upcoming motorsport title ‘Torque Drift 2.’ The game will host Nissan’s first Web 3.0 experience featuring licensed ‘Nissan’, ‘NISMO’, ‘Infiniti’, and ‘Datsun’ NFTs. https://coinspectator.com/dailycoin/2022/10/27/nissan-enters-web-3-0-in-collaboration-with-animocas-grease-monkey-games/ //

// Q9 Capital, a HK based crypto investment platform, has received provisional approval from Dubai’s Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA) as the company expands to the United Arab Emirates. https://www.techinasia.com/hong-kong-crypto-firm-obtains-dubai-provisional-approval //

// Reap began operations in 2018 as a payments platform enabling services including payables management, international payments and collections. Last year, it launched its Reap Card offering in partnership with Visa to deliver credit to businesses and allow corporate purchases and expenses that are traditionally not possible on business credit cards https://www.fintechfutures.com/2022/10/hong-kong-fintech-reap-lands-40m-series-a-funding/ //

// Arthur Hayes, the former CEO of crypto derivatives giant BitMEX, believes the next crypto bull run will start when China moves back into the market, and Hong Kong has a vital part to play in this process. Hayes says the next crypto bull run will be tied to when China embraces the crypto market again, and Hong Kong could be the gateway for this to happen. https://www.fxstreet.com/cryptocurrencies/news/hong-kong-could-be-key-for-chinas-crypto-comeback-arthur-hayes-202210270431 //

// In 2019, the company started developing WATI, a WhatsApp-based platform catering to the marketing and sales automation needs of small and medium-sized businesses, Yeung said. Officially launched in 2020, WATI now has 6,000 customers across 78 countries, according to Yeung. https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3197205/hong-kong-saas-start-wati-collects-us23-million-series-b-shopify-tiger-global-bets-southeast-asia?utm_source=rss_feed //

// Financial authorities in Hong Kong have unveiled a prototype of the Chinese autonomous territory’s own central bank digital currency called Project Aurum. The two-tier platform features a wholesale interbank and a retail e-wallet system, participants revealed. https://coinspectator.com/bitcoin-com/2022/10/24/hong-kong-presents-digital-currency-prototype-project-aurum/ //

// 去年香港管理相關家族辦公室及私人信託客戶的資產規模超過1.7萬億港元。政府會在今年內提交條例草案，為合資格家族辦公室提供稅務寬免，目標是在2025年年底前推動不少於200間家族辦公室在港設立或擴展業務 https://hk.on.cc/hk/bkn/cnt/finance/20221021/bkn-20221021211953819-1021_00842_001.html //

// 孫東指出，上屆政府已破天荒投入1500億元用於創科工作，當中大部分資金用於基建，真正用在前線科研的錢還是有限，他期望當局在科研方面的投入比上屆政府有增長，同時增加業界的投入 http://www.bastillepost.com/hongkong/article/11539311-%e5%ad%ab%e6%9d%b1%ef%bc%9a%e9%81%b8%e6%93%87%e8%b3%87%e5%8a%a9%e5%a4%a7%e5%ad%b8%e7%a0%94%e7%99%bc%e5%9c%98%e9%9a%8a%e6%99%82%e6%9c%83%e8%80%83%e6%85%ae%e6%9c%89%e5%90%a6%e5%b8%82%e5%a0%b4%e5%83%b9 //

// “Well, here’s the thing — we think $10 billion is not enough for Facebook to succeed. Billions of dollars are transacted in the open metaverse space — actually much more when you consider fungible tokens. Most of the value goes to the end user, so why would I transact on something like Meta — regardless of its visuals — when I have to give half of it to the platform?“ https://techcrunch.com/2022/10/20/metas-10b-metaverse-investment-is-not-enough-according-to-animoca-brands-yat-siu/ //