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The metaverse is money and crypto is king – why you'll be on a blockchain when you're virtual-world hopping

  • Written by Rabindra Ratan, Associate Professor of Media and Information, Michigan State University
imageIn the metaverse, your avatar, the clothes it wears and the things it carries belong to you thanks to blockchain.Duncan Rawlinson - Duncan.co/Flickr, CC BY-NC

You may think the metaverse will be a bunch of interconnected virtual spaces – the world wide web but accessed through virtual reality. This is largely correct, but there is also a...

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