Which also includes Tony Parisi, a pioneer of the XR space going back to VRML. I am not sure if the article is as concrete as the headline suggests, but they did push back a conference date that was supposed to have been earlier this month and are still invitation sandboxed last I heard. There is a lot of the interop work going on for VRM avatar portability issues [1] loosely tied up with progress on glTF/USD extensions at standard setting orgs like the Metaverse Standards Forum [2] so something will happen in this area even if it's not Lamina1 who are at least well positioned.

[1] https://github.com/M3-org/avatar-interop

[2] https://metaverse-standards.org/

I might be just stanning but crypto-currency is quite different to block-chains used for digital asset tracking. It's all about the fungibility of individual crypto objects.