Decentraland’s billion-dollar ‘metaverse’ reportedly had 38 active users in one day

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This year, I’ve received astir 70 pitches astir “metaverse” activities for large marque names similar Samsung and UPS successful Decentraland, which, as CoinDesk reports, is astir treble the 38 idiosyncratic fig recorded by blockchain-watcher DappRadar during 1 24-hour play earlier this week.

Decentraland tweeted that it really has astir 8,000 regular progressive users (DAU) and says it’s moving with DappRadar to widen its tracking to see further astute contracts and transaction types to get a much close representation of idiosyncratic activity.

If you’re not acquainted with Decentraland, it’s a Web3 “metaverse” built connected selling 90,000 plots of virtual land, drafting media sum similar this New York Times report that quotes 1 capitalist saying, “Why don’t we spell successful and bargain the parcels of onshore successful these metaverses, and past we tin go the landlords?”

The “virtual existent estate” program has been derided by immoderate arsenic a pyramid scheme, similar Indiana University Bloomington media prof Edward Castronova, who told CNBC, “The Metaverse is El Dorado for net startups. They pursuit it into the jungle and die.”

Assuming the 8,000 fig is the close 1 for Decentraland, that would enactment its progressive idiosyncratic basal down Left 4 Dead 2 by astir 10,000 people, with Steam reporting the 2009 zombie crippled has implicit 18,000 radical playing close present connected PC.