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Manchester City Dropping NFT Art with Jon Noorlander
In celebration of their Premier League title, football club Manchester City partnered with visual artist Jon Noorlander for their first NFT art collection. The 1 Collection is a series of four digital artworks and an open edition that’s now available on MakersPlace. The Champions Medal is available for 2 hours as a $200 open edition. […]Read More -
Decentral Games Brings Club Amnesia Ibiza to Metaverse
Decentral Games is expanding its efforts from gaming to night clubs as it announced a partnership with Amnesia Ibiza. A virtual version of the club with come to Decentraland, offering dance music on the virtual dance floor. They plan to open the club in the metaverse in June this year. Amnesia Ibiza is one of […]Read More -
Ethermon Will Get Its Own District in Decentraland
The Pokémon-inspired pet battle game Ethermon is ramping up for its next evolution, as they not only revealed their own native EMON token, but also their own district inside Decentraland. Ethermon got completely revamped since the project relaunched as Ethermon Awakening back in 2019. There’s a lot more content, and the game runs on the […]Read More -
Soon You Order Pizza While Traveling in Decentraland
Metaverse developers Metazone are pushing boundaries as they will launch the option to directly order pizza at Domino’s from within Decentraland. This Friday March 12th at 2AM UTC they will live order a pizza from Domino’s through their interface and have it delivered at someone’s home. Everybody can join the event live inside Decentraland. “Come […]Read More -
Metazone Launches Exchange in Decentraland
Landowners in Decentraland can now acquire an NFT that deploys an crypto exchange service in the virtual world. Through the Metazone marketplace users can setup their own token swap ATM. Acquiring the panel costs 2000 MANA, which translates to 492 dollars. Metazone describes the DCL Token Swap NFT as a first glimpse of DeFi inside […]Read More -
Decentraland Atari Game Jam Launches Tonight
Tonight at 9PM UTC on Wednesday February 10th Decentraland is hosting its first game jam of 2021 in partnership with Atari. Visitors of the event will be able to grab a POAP and some exclusive Atari wearables. In addition the event is the start of a two week game jam themed after some of Atari’s […]Read More -
Data Research: Land Whales in the Metaverse
A tweet got me interested in land whales in the metaverse, and therefore I decided to do some data research. Play to Earn dove into wallet data from The Sandbox, Somnium Space, Decentraland and Cryptovoxels. Did you know that the average landowner in The Sandbox has 0.02 percent of the current total supply? However, the […]Read More -
Polygonal Mind’s Megacube Finished in One Week
Over the course of one week 2416 different players have been chipping away tiles from a gigantic Megacube inside Decentraland. Polygonal Mind has created the biggest multiplayer game in Decentraland thus far. During the week an average of 130 players were chipping away tiles from the Megacube at any given moment. Players who were removing […]Read More -
Atari Building Virtual Arcade in Decentraland
Atari will build an arcade inside the virtual world of Decentraland. In the arcade visitors will be able to play classic Atari games across different floors. In addition Decentraland will organize a game jam to have the community create games. The two companies announced the partnership on Tuesday. In the arcade visitors will play classic […]Read More -
Decentral Games Makes DAO Move into Virtual Worlds
Decentral Games has announced that its decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) will focus on governing 400 land parcels in the virtual world of Decentraland. These lands have a total value of more than half a million dollars. Token-holders can for example vote to build art galleries or games. In December Decentral Games launched its DG governance […]Read More
Decentraland
Decentraland is a virtual world running on the Ethereum blockchain. Ownership over the land parcels (LAND) is stored on Ethereum, while the native governance token MANA is an ERC-20 token. Decentraland is a virtual world that can be accessed through any desktop web browser, using a Web 3 wallet like for example Metamask.
A decentralized autonomous organization, or DAO, is responsible for the future of Decentraland. The developers of Decentraland handed over the controls to the DAO in 2020, but are still actively working on the project.
All 90 thousand land parcels have already been sold. Those who own land can build anything they want, ranging from virtual stores or galleries, to interactive installations or even full feature games. People who want to have their own land, will need to buy it on the secondary market.
Anybody who visits Decentraland can enjoy all it has to offer for free. However, certain games have an entrance fee, but also allow users to win digital items. In addition there are gambling casinos in Decentraland, attracting quite an audience on special event nights. By participating in events, players can win or buy special clothes for their avatar. Even though Decentraland only exists since February 2020, these digital clothes have become quite popular collectibles.
