Metaverse is undoubtedly the hottest "popular fried chicken" at the moment. In addition to the social giant Facebook resolutely changing its "face" and renaming "Meta", technology giants such as Tencent, Google, ByteDance, Microsoft, and Baidu have also "topped up" and rushed to the Metaverse track. At the same time, the capital that moved after hearing the news has also "boiled", and the phenomenon of obtaining high-value financing is also common.
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Ground floor facilities
Flow
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Flow ecological map source: Flow official website
In addition, Flow and Dapper Labs each applied for 108 plots of land on the Metaverse project Matrix World to establish a virtual headquarters.
Enjin
Enjin's vision is to create a multiverse of games for players. In the early days, Enjin was a company that provided website creation and hosting services for gamers. Later, it launched the first NFT creation platform and used the token ENJ as the raw material for its NFT casting. At the same time, Enjin CTO Witek Radomski also created the ERC-1155 token standard with semi-homogeneous characteristics.
Efinity developed by Enjin is a scalable NFT cross-chain network built on the Polkadot network. Users can mint and trade NFT on the chain. On November 4th, Enjin announced the establishment of a USD 100 million Efinity Metaverse fund, which aims to support Enjin and Efinity developers to build a metaverse, and will support Enjin ecology, metaverse, blockchain games, decentralized infrastructure, NFT DApps, and Support for more pioneering projects.
According to Enjin’s official website, there are currently 27,000 commercial projects running on the platform, and the value of ERC-1155 assets generated is 1.16 billion US dollars, and the number of wallets installed exceeds 1.7 million.
Ronin
Ronin is an Ethereum sidechain built specifically for Axie Infinity, a leading blockchain game project, at the end of 2020. It is a POA network operated by validators appointed by Sky Mavis, the game's core development studio. Blocks need to be approved by two-thirds of the validators to be approved. Validators are responsible for writing and validating blocks, updating price language machines, and handling things like the deposit and transfer process of assets (ETH, ERC20, and ERC721) to and from Ronin. Among them, the first validators include Ubisoft, Binance, Animoca Brands, and Nonfungible. Currently, Ronin has been launched on the main network.
Rangers Protocol
Rangers Protocol was incubated by chain game publisher MixMarvel, which integrates cross-chain, NFT and EVM protocols, and aims to provide DApps and assets with the function of frictionless interaction with multiple different chains (already supporting Ethereum, BSC and Tron, etc.) , becoming the blockchain infrastructure of the Metaverse. Projects such as HyperDragons Rocket Arena and HyperSnakes, which have been on fire before, have adopted the Rangers Protocol. At present, Rangers Protocol has officially launched the test network, such as the fixed-rate lending protocol BlueStone has been successfully migrated.
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middleware
Chainlink
Encryption and communication in the real world require oracles, and Chainlink is one of the representative projects of middleware that connects two different worlds. Currently, Chainlink has developed smart contracts that connect other on-chain services and other codes. Users can not only flexibly choose the core blockchain that the application runs on, but also flexibly access any required off-chain data and computing resources.
Over the past period of time, Metaverse projects such as Brokoli, NASH Metaverse, XCarnival, Metasaurs, and FireStarter have all integrated Chainlink.
Mask Network
Mask Network is a portal that helps users seamlessly transition from Web2.0 to Web3.0, allowing users to seamlessly send encrypted information, encrypted currency, and even decentralized applications (such as DeFi, NFT, etc.) on the platforms of traditional social giants. and DAOs).
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identity
Spruce
From "Not Your Keys, Not Your Coin" to "Not Your Keys, Not Your Identity," digital identity company Spruce is building cryptocurrency-native tools that help users manage their identities and data across platforms. In September of this year, Spruce won the bid for a project jointly initiated by the Ethereum Foundation (EF) and the Ethereum Name Service (ENS), which can log in to third-party applications through the Ethereum account technology.
Recently, Spruce completed a $7.5 million round of financing led by Ethereal Ventures and Electric Capital. Other investors include BITKRAFT, Coinbase Ventures, Alameda Research, A.Capital Ventures, SV Angel, and Protocol Labs.
Litentry
Litentry is the first decentralized cross-chain identity protocol on Polkadot. It is compatible with different DID standards and provides reliable decentralized identity aggregation computing services. Simply put, it is a cross-chain identity aggregator. As early as 2019, Litentry received Web3 Grants.
In fact, Litentry launched the metaverse identity app My Crypto Profile in August this year, which allows users to display their NFT collections on Twitter by linking their Ethereum identities and Twitter accounts. cooperate. It is worth mentioning that recently Litentry also announced to participate in the first 5 slot auctions of Polkadot, and will reward 20% of the total supply of tokens.
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game
AxieInfinity
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Axie Infinity compared with other DApps and blockchain revenue Source: Token Terminal
It is worth mentioning that Sky Mavis, the Vietnamese developer behind Axie Infinity, has recently completed a US$152 million Series B round of financing. Other well-known investment institutions include Paradigm, Accel, Konvoy Ventures, FTX, Libertus Capital, etc. For Axie Infinity and Ronin.
Illuvium
Illuvium is a decentralized NFT collection and automatic battle game based on Ethereum. The core mechanism is that players capture wild beasts by fighting monsters and upgrading them, and cast them into NFTs and then transfer them to the trading market for sale. Since Illuvium is integrated with Immutable-X, a Layer 2 scalability solution, neither players nor developers need to pay any gas fees for minting or trading NFTs. In April, Illuvium raised $38 million through Balancer LBP. At present, IIlluvium is not yet online, and a public beta version will be launched in the first quarter of 2022.
Alien Worlds
Alien Worlds is a space exploration game that provides players with land ownership, deployment tools, soldiers and weapons, and customizes exclusive game characters, and integrates DeFi, NFT, Metaverse and DAO. Currently, it supports Ethereum, WAX and BSC.
Data from Dappradar shows that the number of Alien Worlds users has exceeded 240,000, and more than 12 million transactions occur every day.
Treeverse
Treeverse is a 2D pixel-style massively multiplayer online game deployed on Ethereum. It was founded by NFT investor Loopify and co-founder Aizea. It aims to become an NFT chat place and social experience game. Treeverse has built-in trading markets, guilds, NPCs, small games and pets. During the IPO, all 10,000 Block NFTs of Treeverse were sold out within 1 hour at a price of 0.125 ETH.
In October of this year, Treeverse completed a seed round of financing at a valuation of US$25 million, led by IdeoCo Labs and Animoca Brands, and other investors included SkyVision Capital, Stani Kulechov and Krybharat.
Star Atlas
Star Atlas is a space multiplayer online metaverse game based on Solana, the gameplay is similar to EVE Online. Players are divided into three camps. In starship battles, the victors will be rewarded with loot, and some assets of the losers will be randomly destroyed. If the player's starship is destroyed during the battle, the corresponding assets will also be destroyed.
virtual reality
virtual reality
Decentraland
Decentraland is an Ethereum-based metaverse platform managed by the community in the form of a DAO. Users can use their token MANA to create, experience and monetize content, games and applications on this platform, all in a virtual three-dimensional Finished on space land.
According to data from the NFT trading platform Opensea, among all virtual world categories, Decentraland ranks first with sales of over 157,000 ETH.
The Sandbox
The Sandbox is a virtual game world owned by game developer Animoca Brands. Through the Ethereum-based functional token SAND, players can create and own different game experiences and earn income from them. The Sandbox has achieved a strong "out of the circle" effect by virtue of its cooperation with well-known IPs such as the American drama "The Walking Dead", The Smurfs, Caring Bears, Atari and Nubby Dog.
Not long ago, The Sandbox received US$93 million in financing led by Softbank Vision Fund 2, which will be used by the platform to expand fashion, architecture and virtual concerts outside the game.
According to Opensea data, the sales of The Sandbox exceeded 32,000 ETH, and the number of holders exceeded 23,000.
Cryptovoxels
CryptoVoxels is an Ethereum-based metaverse world, similar to "MineCraft", where users can use custom pixel monochrome blocks to build, develop and sell digital assets on the street. Unlike other projects, CryptoVoxels was independently developed by founder and former Decentraland member Ben Nolan. As of November 4, CryptoVoxels has sold nearly 20,000 ETH.
In October of this year, Cryptovoxels announced that it has supported Facebook logins with 2.7 billion users. Not only that, but according to the CryptoVoxels official, it has revealed that it is considering supporting Twitter.
SomniumSpace
Somnium Space is an open and social virtual reality world based on Ethereum launched in 2018. It is committed to applying VR technology to games. The ultimate vision is to become a virtual reality world similar to that created in the movie "Ready Player One". In Somnium Space, users can buy land, construct or design buildings, and construct or import objects to create shared virtual worlds.
Currently, Somnium Space has moved from the scalability solution Loom Network to Matic Network to enhance its scalability.
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social contact
social contact
Friends with Benefits
Friends with Benefits is a private club based on Discord with more than 2,000 members. Joining the organization requires not only passing strict identity verification (a written application is required), but also purchasing tickets worth nearly US$10,000, and holding a certain amount of original Coin FWB. However, starting from October, Friends with Benefits has introduced the concept of city subDAO, and those who are willing can apply for city membership at a ticket price of US$600.
In addition to launching a series of parties around the world, Friends with Benefits has launched an app for "token-gated events", an NFT gallery, a Web3-centric editorial business, a virtual music studio, and more. Recently, a16z announced that it has invested in Friends with Benefit, will provide guidance for its next stage of development, and will actively participate in governance by empowering key community members.
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DAO
Yield Guild Games
Yield Guild Games is a DAO and game guild established in the Philippines, composed of players and investors. In Yield Guild Games, all participating members are investors and players. Among them, investors are responsible for the NFT assets of different games in the ecosystem, and lend these assets to game players in the community. Players are responsible for participating in game gold making, and the guild surplus is reinvested to purchase virtual assets and land in the game. According to the Yield Guild Game’s September asset report, the total number of guild students reached 4,710, and YGG, students, and community managers earned a total of 10.13 million US dollars.
In addition to the red-hot Axie Infinity, Yield Guild Games has also invested in ZED RUN, Star Atlas, Guild of Guardians, and Ember Sword, among others. In addition to investing in chain games, Yield Guild Games has completed three rounds of financing this year, in addition to completing a $1.325 million seed round led by Delphi Digital in March this year, and a $4 million A round led by e-sports fund BITKRAFT in June. In addition to this round of financing, in August this year, Yield Guild Games once again completed a $4.6 million Series A financing led by a16z. Other investors include Kingsway Capital, Infinity Ventures Crypto and Atelier Ventures.
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DeFi
XCarnival
XCarinval is a mortgage lending platform for metaverse assets. It provides mortgage lending services including various NFT assets and long-tail assets, and provides effective value release for assets with little liquidity. XCarnival's first revolutionary time-limited auction liquidation mechanism is dedicated to building non-standard asset leasing, pawning, and lending businesses, and it also provides a variety of flexible and adjustable synthetic asset templates to help users quickly create financial products to obtain benefits.
At present, XCarinval has obtained four rounds of security audits by CertiK, and its main network has also been launched.
Aavegotchi
Aavagotchi is an NFT digital collection combined with DeFi. Each Aavegotchi NFT token is not only a collection, but also an asset that can generate income, and the attributes of NFT depend on its value and rarity in the Aavegotchi universe.
On November 2, Aavegotchi's metaverse game Gotchiverse completed the first round of land auction, with a bidding amount of about 40.6 million GHST, worth about $100 million.
Vera
Vera is an open financial platform designed to provide decentralized financial functions for NFT assets. Users can use the platform token VERA to obtain financial services such as financing, leasing, financing and asset verification on NFT applications without going through any centralized middleman or intermediary.
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physical education
Chiliz
Chiliz is a blockchain service provider for the sports and entertainment industry invested by Binance. It aims to help fans and clubs in the traditional sports industry communicate and communicate, and provide fan economic solutions for sports clubs. Currently, Chiliz's partners are Barcelona, Juventus, Paris Saint-Germain, AC Milan, OG, Heretics, etc., and have launched fan tokens. Among them, OG Fan Token (OG), AS Roma Fan Token (ASR), and Atlético de Madrid Fan Token (ATM) have all been listed on Binance.
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music
music
Opulous
Opulous is a music financing platform launched by Ditto Music, one of the world's largest digital distribution and record companies, to help music artists bypass traditional institutions such as banks to obtain financing directly. In April of this year, British rapper Big Zuu and American musician Taylor Bennett successfully sold a majority of shares in unreleased records through the platform; in June, Opulous also cooperated with well-known musicians Lil Yachty and Kyle on the currency An NFT platform releases music NFT works.
Currently, Opulous has received $6.5 million in financing. Not long ago, Tech Plus (LTP), the blockchain and encryption business unit of the Japanese communication giant LINE, also reached a cooperation with Opulous, and the two parties will jointly develop NFT products.
Audius
Audius is a decentralized music sharing and streaming protocol designed to facilitate direct transactions between listeners and creators, enabling everyone to freely distribute, commercialize and stream any audio content. Through the native token AUDIO, users can participate in voting weights, value-added services, etc. Currently, Audius owns tracks from well-known music labels such as deadmau5, 3LAU and Zed's.
In September of this year, Audius received $5 million in financing. Investors include Katy Perry, The Chainsmokers, Nas, Jason Derulo, Pusha T, Mark Gillespie, and former Sony Music CEO Martin Bandier.
It is worth mentioning that Audius has also reached a cooperation with the short video platform TikTok not long ago, which will allow musicians on the platform to directly upload and share their works to TikTok’s Sound Kit. At the same time, musicians can also link followers on TikTok. Back to Audius.
Rocki
Rocki is a music streaming service and digital payment ecosystem built on Binance Smart Chain, aiming to solve the difficult issues of platform playability and participant revenue distribution in the music industry. Rocki has launched two unique music NFTs on the platform, ERC 721 "Royalty Income Rights" NFT and ERC 1155 "Exclusive Listening Rights" NFT.
trading platform
trading platform
Opensea
Opensea is the largest NFT trading platform. Users can trade NFTs such as collectibles, art, music, and in-game props at will. According to data from ultrasound.money, as of November 4, Opensea has destroyed more than 94,000 ETH, ranking first on the list. At the same time, according to Dappradar data, Opensea's total turnover exceeded 10.14 billion US dollars, and the total number of users exceeded 620,000.
In July this year, OpenSea completed a US$100 million Series B financing led by a16z, with a post-investment valuation of US$1.5 billion.
Rarible
Rarible is an NFT exchange and minting platform running on Ethereum that enables any user to create and sell digital collectibles with no coding skills required. With Rarible, users can mint, buy and sell digital collectibles without any coding skills. The token RARI launched by Rarible can be used for platform upgrade voting, work management and review, etc.
Dappradar data shows that Rarible's total transaction volume reached 260 million US dollars, and the total number of users exceeded 83,000.
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Business
Business
Highstreet
Highstreet is a commercial Metaverse platform created by LumiereVR, a computer vision-based VR retail company. It aims to create a game experience shopify for brands, so that brands can establish a sense of presence in the MMORP world. Through direct integration with existing e-commerce systems, players can purchase physical products to use in-game, with the option to redeem items purchased on Highstreet in real life.
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AR/VR
OVR
OVR is committed to building the first AR open-source metaverse platform based on the Ethereum blockchain, dubbed "Pokémon Go Evolution", and aims to be The preferred reference platform for spatial networking. OVR divides the real earth into 1.6 trillion hexagonal lands, each hexagon represents 300 square meters, which can be auctioned, traded or leased in a decentralized manner.
Bloktopia
Bloktopia is a virtual reality metaverse project based on Polygon. By using the 3D creation engine to build a skyscraper with a total of 21 floors in the virtual reality world, the visualization effect greatly improves the user experience, and people can experience it on different floors. Immersive content mainly includes learning and education, making money, games and content creation, etc. The reason why Bloktopia chose the number "21" is to commemorate the 21 million bitcoins.
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storage/rendering
Arweave
Arweave is a blockchain-based file storage protocol. It has the characteristics of one-time payment and permanent storage of files. The core principle is redundant and repeated decentralized storage to form a snapshot of the contract state.
Viewblock data shows that in October, the storage data of the blockchain storage protocol Arweave reached 7.91 TB, a record high, an increase of more than 79.3% compared to September, and a three-month increase of more than 10% compared to 708.21 GB in August. times. At the same time, the number of transfers on the Arweave chain reached 3,792,650 in October, a significant increase of 43% compared to 2,650,759 in September, and simultaneously hit a record high.
Filecoin
IPFS is an open source decentralized network protocol designed to provide a decentralized addressing supplement to the traditional centralized HTTP. Filecoin is an economic layer on top of IPFS to incentivize nodes to host IPFS data.
Not long ago, Filecoin founder Juan Benet revealed at the Wanxiang Blockchain Summit that Filecoin has reached 12 EiB bytes and there are 3362 nodes worldwide. At the same time, more than 6,500 customers currently store more than 6.5 million NFTs in NFT STORAGE.
RNDR Network
RNDR Network is a completely decentralized network under OTOY, an authoritative cloud rendering company in the United States. It is composed of artists and GPU (graphics processing unit) computing power providers, aiming to become the computing and technology foundation for bringing the new generation of 3D and holographic media to the public facility. RNDR Network is building two types of infrastructure: the first type is decentralized GPU computing; the second type is technical protocols and products in 3D, holographic media and NFT.
Since the beginning of this year, the RNDR network has completed nearly 250,000 rendering tasks, and creators and artists in the ecosystem have generated more than $500 million in cumulative NFT sales. Among them, among the first batch of RNDR archive projects of RNDR Network, there are many high-quality works such as DC, Marvel legendary cartoonist Alex Ross, famous digital artist Beeple and "Star Trek" creator Gene Rodenberg.
