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Odaily Translator | Nian Yin Si Tang

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Meta, Facebook's parent company, aims to be "deeply compatible" with blockchain technology, a Facebook executive said in an internal letter recently.In this internal letter to employees,Will become Meta CTO next year

Andrew Bosworth of WSJ articulated the social network's vision for adopting and working with various blockchain or cryptocurrency technologies — collectively referred to as Web3.

While Bosworth called for caution, he also believed that companies should seek to adopt these technologies before others, noting that blockchain technology — essentially a distributed ledger system — could “be important to us in the next decade.” have a far-reaching impact on the industry".

"My overall guidance is to be highly compatible with the blockchain," Bosworth wrote in the letter. The opportunity to work together, I think the effort is worth it."

Technologists, entrepreneurs and investors in the tech industry have been discussing the future architecture of the internet, with some seeing the decentralized qualities offered by blockchain technology as a way to wrest power from giants including Meta and Google.However, although Google has beenReluctance to delve into cryptocurrencies, but Meta has taken a different tack and has already dabbled in the crypto space in various ways, including creating a global digital currency that can be used by Facebook and WhatsApp users. Last month, after the digital currency was renamed and facedRegulatory review

In addition, the social media giant is still working hard to deploy the Metaverse. Facebook in July of this yearAnnounceAnnounce

The metaverse product group led by Vishal Shah, vice president of Instagram, was established. Other executives include Vivek Sharma, vice president of Facebook Gaming, and Jason Rubin, director of Facebook Gaming. The team will report directly to Andrew Bosworth, vice president of AR/VR at Facebook. The team members mainly include Facebook Horizon team members, AR/VR content team, and the Unit2Games team acquired by Facebook in June. Facebook said it will also recruit hundreds of new employees for the team. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in an interview that the metaverse is the successor to the mobile internet and promised to transform Facebook from a social media company to a metaverse company.

Bosworth, who oversees Meta's augmented and virtual reality business, also said in the letter that the company should develop ways to work with NFTs. This will undoubtedly have a wonderful reaction with the Metaverse business that Meta is promoting.

At the same time, however, he urged Meta employees not to rely too much on decentralized technology to avoid "overcorrecting."

"While most people love using Facebook and Google, there are some who don't," he wrote. "Those who opted out, though small in number, participated in creating a truly impressive wave of technology. .”

Meta did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

It is worth mentioning that Marc Andreessen, one of Meta's board members, is also the founder of Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), a well-known venture capital institution in the encryption field. He also created a special fund to invest in Web3 companies and technologies.According to news on December 14, Chapter One, an encryption investment company co-founded by three former executives from Instagram Vets, Tinder and Stripe,Formed a $50 million crypto fund