DeFi: The New Metaverse Landscape Building Block

While the developments around it are still in their early stages, this field is becoming increasingly intriguing in the wake of rising crypto enthusiasm. The evolution of the Metaverse, which was previously driven by Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR), is now poised to enter the crypto sector. Recent advancements in the virtual reality industry have seen extraordinary shifts as blockchain, decentralized finance (DeFi), and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) have all come together to exploit the Metaverse area, which is being viewed as a newly discovered pot of gold.

Metaverse, in all its magnificence, is not overly difficult, offering an immersive, scalable, and interoperable digital 3D virtual experience centered on leisure activities such as playing, working, socializing, or shopping. This space has been undergoing significant transformation, resulting in unprecedented levels of enjoyment and interaction. The initial concerns about navigating this new frontier are dissipating, and this technology is finding new applications outside of gaming and entertainment.

New Developments:

Big names like Facebook and Microsoft have begun to study the Metaverse, believing in its power. Microsoft is thinking in terms of employment, while Facebook is thinking more in terms of social media. With entertainment and gaming firms leading the way, there is a movement across many industries to converge with Metaverse technology, and Metaverse developers are betting on constructing next-generation virtual spaces to generate new revenue streams. Let us try to figure out why companies are attracted to the Metaverse.

The virtual game business has come a long way, and disruptors such as Roblox, Grand Theft Auto, and Epic’s Fortnite have pushed this experience to the next level, where players take on avatars and enter into the realm of virtual adventures while carrying a virtual identity. This has resulted in the creation of an entirely new market for in-game purchases of clothing, makeovers, character enhancements, weapons, and accessories. This unparalleled level of digital immersion has taken the Metaverse game business by storm, spawning a new marketplace with enormous income possibilities. The enormously successful ‘play and earn’ business model is being used to generate income and make the platforms more interesting for consumers. 

Taking Advantage of NFTs:

Converging physical and digital worlds via NFTs is a trend that has infiltrated the Metaverse and is fueling the digital ownership economy. Users are really passionate about NFT Metaverses. Social connection, which was once at the heart of many gaming platforms, is now a thing of the past. The new virtual reality aficionados are eager to join this new economy in which they may build virtual structures, own homes, and exchange commodities and services. To facilitate digital ownership, NFTs began to integrate into these platforms, allowing residents of such communities to purchase an original piece of art, a limited-edition Dolce & Gabbana collection, or a Louis Vuitton handbag, all tokenized as digital assets to establish and enhance their virtual identities. Owning excellent properties on these platforms is the current trend, and virtual world real estate may fetch millions of dollars. Someone recently spent $450,000 to be Snoop Dogg’s neighbor in the Sandbox, a popular Metaverse game site.

Metaverse Marketing:

Luxury businesses are also placing significant bets in this market. They have also begun to delve into Metaverse platforms in search of new marketplaces since they want to meet consumers where they spend their time, and these Metaverses are quite popular among their target customers. In this game, Metaverse, these brands offer their products in limited quantities, and consumers who buy them receive an NFT as a virtual certification of ownership.

Gucci, a high-end fashion label, recently teamed with Roblox, a gaming platform, to host the Gucci Garden, a two-week art exhibit geared at brand marketing in which players were spotted wearing Gucci handbags, sunglasses, or hats. Gucci introduced digital-only limited-edition fashion goods. Similarly, Balenciaga, a prominent luxury fashion company, has entered the Metaverse for the first time, allowing gamers to purchase digital costumes inspired by real-life Balenciaga pieces from its virtual boutique. These high-profile fashion collaborations herald the birth of a new environment that has the potential to unlock a massive multi-billion-dollar market.

MetaFi: 

This field has already begun to search for ways to establish a fully working economy, and DeFi development for Metaverses is accelerating. It’s no surprise that crypto, blockchain, NFTs, DeFi, and DAO are viewed as building elements for a dependable and interconnected Metaverse-ecosystem. Building and expanding a metaverse is impossible without a solid financial ecosystem capable of providing secure, frictionless, and interoperable financial transaction functionality on these platforms. This parallel economy requires a strong financial nervous system that is tokenized and managed by Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) principles.

Decentralnad: Creating a Metaverse Economy

The industry has already witnessed a number of highly successful Metaverses that have changed the face of this field with DeFi at its foundation. One such enormously successful forerunner is Decentraland, a virtual reality network based on the Ethereum (ETH) blockchain. The platform, which was launched in 2017, will be available to the general public in 2020. The Ethereum blockchain is used by the platform to store and preserve ownership data. The entire platform is built on smart contracts, which are written automatic agreements that are utilized to validate all Decentraland transactions.

Its system, which is based on decentralization, is divided into three layers: the Consensus Layer, the Content Distribution Layer, and the Real-time Layer. Let us look at how these layers contribute to Decentraland being a genuinely decentralized platform.

Consensus Layer uses an Ethereum smart contract to track land ownership and content. On the Content Distribution Layer, this platform distributes the content required to render the world via a decentralized storage mechanism, allowing the platform to function without the need for any centralized server infrastructure. The ecosystem in Decentraland exists in the most democratized form possible, with users responsible for content distribution and the cost of running the system shared by the same players who benefit from it. Decentralization is prominent at the third layer, where all user communication occurs via peer-to-peer connections established with the use of servers hosted by landowners or third parties. Even the programs that the landowner wishes to run within the plot rely on peer-to-peer connections that do not require mediation.

Decentraland, being a DAO, allows its community the ability to participate in the general governance of the project through voting rights, which are proportional to the ownership of MANA, Decentraland’s native utility token. The MANA token can also be used as a virtual currency to purchase goods, services, and land. Another key component of Decentraland is LAND, a non-fungible token that represents plots of land held by community members and, like MANA, offers voting power as part of Decentraland’s governance system.

The citizens of Decentraland own the land, digital assets, and platform innovations. As every regulation connected to software, land contents, currency, or access to the globe is regulated through open-source code, there is no single agent or corporate body with decision-making power. Decentraland has firmly established itself in the DeFi space, and it now has a solid base from which to expand its position.

Sandbox: A Successful ‘Play & Earn’ Business Model Case

The Sandbox is another blockchain-based decentralized virtual gaming platform. It is an Ethereum-based metaverse that provides a decentralized gaming ecosystem that allows users to create, distribute, and monetize in-game goods and experiences in a decentralized environment using blockchain technology.

The Sandbox, which is based on user-generated content (UGC), is made up of three integrated products: VoxEdit, Sandbox Marketplace, and Sandbox Game Maker, which together provide a comprehensive gaming experience that allows users to claim copyrights for their content via blockchain and smart contracts. Users can use VoxEdit to construct, rig, and animate their own voxel-based NFTs that they can then sell on the Sandbox NFTs marketplace. These inventions are saved on the IPFS network, which allows for decentralized storage, and after being registered on the blockchain, they become ASSETS with clear ownership that may be sold on the NFT marketplace.

All transactions on The Sandbox employ SAND, a native utility token that serves as the foundation for transactions and interactions. It is an ERC-20 utility token developed on the Ethereum blockchain, which is an open-ended decentralized software platform that does not require a central server to hold data and transactions, making it a genuinely decentralized platform.

SAND is also a governance token that allows holders to participate in platform governance decisions because The Sandbox, like Decentraland, uses a DAO framework. SAND is utilized as a voting system in which the players have complete ownership. Digital lands and other NFT-based assets are selling for millions in these virtual worlds, and it is creating a multibillion-dollar economy. This massive market undoubtedly requires a banking infrastructure that can accommodate crypto while also providing a reliable and trustless environment.

Conclusion

Metaverses, like physical worlds, are eager to build comprehensive and dependable financial ecosystems centered on financial services like trading, credit, mortgages, and rental agreements.

With NFTs already taking center stage, DeFi is making its way into virtual reality, offering consumers control over trade and digital assets. As Metaverses develop novel and future ‘play and earn’ business models, a dependable and trustless financial environment is required to support such a business model. While this sense of digital presence gains traction in modern society, these virtual platforms will experience a surge in financial transactions to build, own, and rent digital assets, necessitating a genuinely decentralized, dependable, and trustless environment. Decentralized Finance is quickly becoming incorporated into the Metaverse environment.

Suffescom Solutions provides full Metaversei and DeFi development services to assist firms in entering the DeFi industry. Our blockchain engineers and domain specialists collaborate to design a logical path for your development journey. 

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