The Value Chain of the Open Metaverse
- The Value Chain of the Open Metaverse
- Beeple’s Millions
- Where Web3 Meets the Metaverse
- What is Web3 and Why is it Important?
- Non-Fungible Tokens and Digital Ownership
- NFTs In the Wild
- The Size of the Metaverse Prize
- The Open Versus Closed Metaverse
- Crucible and The Direct-to-Avatar Economy
- The Value Chain of the Open Metaverse
The Value Chain of the Open Metaverse
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Hi friends 👋 ,
Happy Monday! Today is an essay that I’m both excited and nervous about.
Excited because some of the most fascinating work in tech is being done rebuilding the underlying structure of the internet and the economy, and I’ve wanted an excuse to dive in. We’re going deep on Web3, NFTs, and the Metaverse. It’s all more mind-blowing and more legit than I expected coming into this piece.
Nervous because, like APIs All the Way Down , I am airdropping into a couple of different worlds in which thousands of people smarter than me have spent years building, investing, and exploring. I’m trying to explain topics that are so much deeper than I could cover in even a year.
In doing so, I am definitely going to get some things wrong, or explain in the most surface-y way something that hides tons of complexity, but I hope that in getting those things wrong, it will help people building and evangelizing Web3 to understand where the holes in the communication are.
This is a risk - I’m fully ready and willing to get dunked on (read Building in DeFi Sucks ). In fact, if you’re building in this space, I’d love for you to give feedback or poke holes publicly, like Lillian Li did when I wrote about Alibaba .
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