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Web3 Creator Economy: November headlines: - Meta’s Instagram plans NFT minting: Instagram will soon have NFT creation and trading tools built in, but in-app purchases will be "subject to applicable app store fees" (source) - Former Meta and Pinterest executive joins Sequoia-backed Decentralized Social (DeSo) as COO to scale the business - DeSo is a new layer-1 blockchain built from the ground up to decentralize social media with a mission of reimagining the creator economy (source) - Nike will let people design and sell sneakers for the metaverse, previously Nike created a metaverse called .Swoosh, a Web3-enabled platform where people will be able to buy its virtual products, which acts as a marketplace (source) - Pearpop, a marketplace for social collaborations, raised $18M at a $300M valuation - Pearpop allows creators to buy collaborations with other creators or celebrities and currently has more than 200,000 users on the platform (source) #creatoreconomy#November2022#trends