Summary of views:
Summary of views:
1. The Metaverse is not a castle in the air, but a virtual space based on the real Internet world in the future, and its scope will also expand from pan-entertainment to every corner of the Internet. However, the current stage of development of the metaverse is still in the very early stage, and it will still take a long time to develop and perfect.
2. NFT will become an important infrastructure of the metaverse. Its uniqueness and irreplaceability will provide a reliable basis for people to map things in the real world to the metaverse, and it has initially shown its value at this stage, but In the future, the core and extension of NFT still have a lot of room for imagination.
3. GameFi is currently a very intuitive window for users to understand the metaverse. It originated in the game industry, but in the future it will further affect all aspects of human social life such as social networking and finance.
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Talk about the concept, what is Metaverse, NFT and GameFi
Regarding the metaverse, according to the current general opinion in the industry, the concept of the metaverse can be traced back to the novel "Snow Crash" (Chinese translation "Avalanche") published in 1992 by the well-known American science fiction writer Neil Stephenson. In this novel, the author defines a virtual world parallel to the real world. Coincidentally, Liu Cixin, a science fiction writer from China, also has a similar description in his book "The Three-Body Problem": "There are two roads in front of human beings: one goes outward, leading to the stars and the sea, and the other goes inward, leading to virtual reality. "Here we might as well chew on the words and chew on the meaning of the Metaverse.
The first thing to be clear is that the term "Metaverse" is translated from "Metaverse". So first look at "Metaverse", which is a combination of "meta" and "verse", among which "meta" is a prefix word, meaning after or beyond (with meanings such as after, beyond, and beyond);" "verse" comes from the word "universe", which means everything that exists anywhere (everything that exists anywhere), so Metaverse can be interpreted literally as "beyond the universe" or "beyond everything". In the widely used Chinese translation name "Yuan Universe", the original meaning of "Yuan" is "head", which refers to the highest position in the human body and has important functions. "Zhuangzi": "Beside the sun and the moon, hold the universe and match it." It refers to all space and time and their connotations. From this point of view, it is indeed a more accurate expression to translate "Metaverse" into "Metaverse". Now we can try to give a straightforward definition of "Metaverse" from the above-mentioned process of elaborating words: standing on the standpoint of most ordinary people today, thinking about the origin of human development, exploring the ultimate scene of future society, From the real to the virtual, then from the virtual to the real, and finally the process of the virtual and the real. Because the cognitive upper limit of most people will be restricted by the productivity and production relations of the era, so when we look forward to the metaverse, it is inevitable to look up and try to "surpass", but in the end we can only see A hazy virtual illusion.
As for NFT (Non-fungible Token), Chinese is generally translated as non-fungible token. From a technical point of view, most of them refer to the certificates issued in accordance with ERC721, ERC1155 and other standards. At present, the ERC721 standard is the mainstream. It is worth mentioning that the ERC721 standard was created and released by Dieter Shirley, CTO of CryptoKitties, and Dieter Shirley is one of the founders of the NFT industry.
NFT is a relative concept of FT (Fungible Token, homogeneous pass). Literally, the biggest difference between the two lies in whether they are unique and whether they can be divided. NFT includes different tokens recorded in its smart contract. Identification information, which makes each NFT token different from each other, and no one token can be replaced by another token, and there is no situation like "exchanging the equivalent value of one bitcoin for another bitcoin" , also indivisible. This attribute also makes NFT an important infrastructure of the metaverse, providing a reliable and feasible technical means for accurately mapping everything in the real world to the virtual world in the future.
At present, the application fields of NFT have included games, artworks, collectibles, digital music, virtual assets, identity features, digital certificates and so on. However, as far as the development process is concerned, most of them are in the initial stage, and GameFi, which is derived from the combination with the game field, can be regarded as one of the few benchmarks.
GameFi (that is, Game Finance), Chinese can be translated as financial gamification. It refers to a business model with the core of P2E (play to earn, making money while playing games) that has attracted widespread attention from the outside world due to the explosion of the blockchain game Axie Infinity. In fact, GameFi is not a new concept that was only proposed this year. As early as at the Wuzhen Internet Conference in 2019, Mary Ma, Chief Strategy Officer of MixMarvel, a global game distribution platform based on blockchain technology, proposed Game Finance. It is to return the ownership of game digital assets to players and solve the problem of mutual trust between game manufacturers and players. In September 2020, Andre Cronje, the founder of Yearn.Finance, also emphasized the concept of GameFi on the Internet.
If you want to explain GameFi more generally, you can understand it as DeFi+NFT, or you can understand it as game+DeFi. The former focuses on introducing NFT pledges in DeFi, while the latter integrates financial elements into the game, allowing players to earn money during the game. To further understand, GameFi and DeFi have great similarities. For example, in Uniswap, users earn UNI by providing liquidity and receive commission sharing as rewards, while in the Axie Infinity game, players earn SLP through game battles Using the Axie elf as a reward is actually equivalent to replacing the "liquidity mining" in DeFi with the "playing game mining" method in GameFi. In essence, the difference does not seem to be big.
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How are Metaverse, NFT and GameFi intertwined?
1. Metaverse and GameFi
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The eight attributes that the metaverse defined by Roblox should have, source network
So at this time, the significance of GameFi is highlighted, and we can at least use GameFi, a slightly concrete thing, to further decipher the Metaverse. Combining the achievements of Axie Infinity, we can extract several key attributes based on the eight attributes given by Roblox. For example, the metaverse must have a sense of immersion, which is a key part of attracting people in the real world to experience and accept the metaverse. At the technical level, we can hope that the progress of VR/AR can be realized; secondly, the metaverse must It is open, not only to be open to users, so that users from all over the world can freely enter and exit anytime, anywhere, but also to be fully open to different fields and inclusive; then Metaverse also needs to have a strong social attribute , this point is well understood, human beings are social animals, and social needs are indispensable for every individual in the real society, and they are also indispensable in the metaverse; finally, the metaverse must be large and have strong continuity And scalability, based on the expansion rate of the Axie Infinity user group in the past half a year, once the metaverse develops to the accessible stage, there will inevitably be a large influx of users and create a variety of needs. The metaverse must be sufficient Only then can it be possible to accommodate a large number of users and needs, and maintain stable operation regardless of whether users are online or not.
From this perspective, GameFi is a well-deserved window to the Metaverse. With the continuous development of GameFi, our understanding of the Metaverse will also be continuously improved.
2. Metaverse and NFT
According to our assumption above, NFT will become an important infrastructure of Metaverse, and Metaverse will become the brightest application result of NFT. From this perspective, the two are interdependent and co-prosperous. At the end of June, Zuckerberg announced that Facebook will work hard to build the metaverse in the future, and the metaverse product group will be led by Instagram vice president Vishal Shah. At the end of 2020, Ma Huateng proposed a so-called "full truth Internet" concept in the preface of Tencent's annual special issue: "Now, an exciting opportunity is coming. The mobile Internet has developed for ten years and is about to usher in the next wave of upgrades. We call it the Quanzhen Internet.” Judging from its interpretation of the Quanzhen Internet, it is similar to the Metaverse we are discussing today. "This is a process from quantitative change to qualitative change, which means the integration of online and offline, the integration of physical and electronic methods. The door to the virtual world and the real world has been opened, whether it is from virtual to real, or from real to virtual , are committed to helping users achieve a more real experience. From the consumer Internet to the industrial Internet, application scenarios have also been opened. Communication and social networking are becoming video, video conferencing and live broadcasting are on the rise, and games are also becoming cloud.”
And in the previous article "The Next Internet Era of Value Interconnection, How much do you know about Web3.0?" In ", we used the development from Web1.0 to Web3.0 as the context to explore the discovery and confirmation of individual value and all the value created by each individual in the Internet during this process. , Web3.0 will be an important part of the metaverse, so the rediscovery of individual value will also be an important core of the metaverse. Based on the above analysis and the unique advantages of NFT, it is not difficult to find that with the development of human society, especially the continuous deepening of the exploration of the origin of human social development, the "unique" value of each individual and the "unique" recording function of NFT will be Deeper integration will undoubtedly continue to strengthen the interdependent relationship between NFT and the Metaverse.
3. GameFi and NFTs
Regarding the relationship between GameFi and NFT, you can actually refer to the opinion of Mary Ma, chief strategy officer of MixMarvel. The issue of mutual trust will help promote the continuous evolution of the business model of the game industry. Specifically, in the current game industry, game developers, publishers, and players are separated from each other. Most of the profits in the operation of a game are taken away by publishers and developers. In this system , the huge group of players who spend the most time are just pure consumer roles, and it should be pointed out that in most mainstream games now, even the virtual items that players pay for are only owned by the game. The right to use and dispose of the game cannot have ownership, let alone ownership and use rights across different games. This status quo is not fair.
And GameFi represented by Axie Infinity allows us to see a new and fairer business model. With the help of NFT, the virtual assets in the game can be fully confirmed. Every Axie elf obtained by the player is unique. The important thing is that they belong to the player completely, whether it is the developer of the game or other players. It cannot be obtained illegally without permission. On the other hand, about 95% of Axie Infinity's operating income is allocated to players, which is undoubtedly subversive for the business model of the game industry in the real network.
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Although the development of the metaverse is still at a very early stage, through the window of GameFi, we have already been able to glimpse the open interconnection, value sharing and many other attractive features of this virtual world. With the help of NFT, in the future metaverse In , any valuable individuals and things will be discovered, recorded and given due respect. Let us work together to promote the progress of the Metaverse.
