Picture everything you do online: shop, socialize with friends, watch movies, listen to music...all being done across connected, immersive digital worlds powered by augmented and virtual reality (eventually).

Steven Spielberg directed this 2018 film that mainly takes place inside of a futuristic metaverse. Not saying that this is exactly how it will turn out, but it will help give you visualize how things could evolve. 

Digital real estate can sell for millions. Nike acquired a digital studio that sold a single collection of NFT sneakers for $3.1MM in 2021. If you're interested in this aspect of NFTs, check out our blog post. 

Isn't decentralized. It's controlled by Facebook. So, the concern is that they'll harvest even more personal data from users in exchange for access. Plus, you'll have to abide by their rules and regulations. 

Ethereum is a decentralized network - meaning no single entity controls it - so, with decentralized metaverses, there's no big company running it, setting the rules, or harvesting your data.

The two leading metaverse tokens are listed above. Both run on Ethereum and are valued in billions of dollars. If you think the idea if metaverses has potential, you can add these to your portfolio.

Most massively multiplayer online (MMO) games are all about earning items and achievements. NFTs allow for creation of unique in-game items that can be bought, sold, traded ... but never replicated. 

And kids are already familiar with and obsessing over digital worlds, thanks to immersive platforms like Roblox...in the United States, it's estimated that 3-out-of-4 kids, age 9-12 are active on the platform. 

Ideas like the metaverse can be easy to dismiss because it's just not what we're used to. But if you look at the facts around adoption, usage, investment, and development ... metaverses are as real as it gets.