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- Written by: Taha Zafar
- Sat, 30 Oct 2021
- Germany
Metaverse, Metaverse! We are certain that you have been hearing about this alternate reality for a while now - a shared augmented / virtual internet of realities that will keep us all connected and allow for new experiences. You probably heard about Facebook rebranding to Meta recently to focus on the Metaverse, don't feel so good about the walled garden / restricted opportunity and are thinking of investing in more crypto-ish open metaverse components for lucrative returns. Well, let's take a look at the top 5 Metaverse tokens by market capitalization. 5. UFO Gaming (UFO) - Marketcap $593 Million At a marketcap of $593 million, the fifth in our list of top 5 Metaverse tokens is multi-chain UFO Gaming. UFO Gaming describes itself as "The Dark Metaverse is a closed loop ever-expanding ecosystem that will consist of P2E games with breedable in-game NFTs and Virtual Land that will entitle collectors to in-game revenue. All games will funnel through UFO's Mothership Gaming Launchpad. UFO Unlocks Everything" UFO Gaming - Top 5 Metaverse Tokens Basically, it's a dark themed Metaverse with space, planets and UFO theme. It aims to offer a series of play to earn NFT based games and virtual real estate, whose value will be enhanced with more participants entering the game based economies. The first game in this Metaverse is the RPG style Super Galactic with character minting and quest based game play. 4. Yield Guild Games (YGG) - Marketcap $653 Million So, we have the Metaverse, but what about an organized group looking to invest their time and effort in them for lucrative rewards for the entire communities? Enter Yield Guild Games, which describes itself as "YGG is a play-to-earn gaming guild, bringing players together to earn via blockchain-based economies. We are the settlers of new worlds in the metaverse". At $653, it's number four in our top 5 Metaverse token list. Yield Guild Games is sort of the Yearn Finance of the Metaverse, a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) seeking yield aggregation in different Metaverse projects. The projects sits at the intersection of NFTs and DeFi. Its mission is given as creation of the "biggest virtual world economy" by optimizing the DAO owned gaming assets / NFTs in different Metaverses for enhancing utility and generating profits. 3. The Sandbox (SAND) - Marketcap $1.47 Billion Now, we are talking billions with the number third entry in our top 5 Metaverse tokens list. The Ethereum-native Sandbox is a blockchain based virtual world, where users can buy, sell or even create their own digital assets. It creates the perfect experience, encompassing online experience, decentralization and gaming. It aims to bring blockchain technology to the masses by attracting gamers and creators alike, combining play to earn and NFT based economy. The utility token is called SAND, used for transactions on the platform and running decentralized governance. 2. Decentraland (MANA) - Marketcap $3.31 Billion The second oldest virtual real estate project (after ancient Etheria) - Decentraland was deployed on 15 August 2017. It is a digital sims-like Metaverse platform that allows users to create and experience virtual reality. The users can purchase plots of land (non-fungible unique digital assets) that they can build. It includes the record of the location, owner, content description, and access controls. Also, they can develop and monetize assets. https://cryptoticker.io/en/decentraland-opens-doors/ Decentraland was developed on the Ethereum blockchain. MANA is the native ERC-20 utility token, however the ERC-71 Non Fungible Tokens (NFTs) standard token LAND is used to represent land ownership and transfers. The Decentraland DAO holds important smart contracts and assets that make up Decentraland – the lands, estates, wearable, servers and the marketplace. It also controls high amount of MANA tokens which allows autonomous function, provision of subsidy, normal operation etc. Inside The Decentraland The users are in full control of the policies and determining the functioning of their digital assets, on the platform. The community can vote on policy update, future LAND auctions, determining the NFT contracts allowed, builder and marketplace etc. In short, they can vote on, whatever they want to vote on. The governance mechanism is built in and powered by Aragon. At $3.31 billion marketcap, it's the second in our top 5 Metaverse tokens list. Top 5 Metaverse Token | Axie Infinity (AXIE) - Marketcap $8.95 Billion The apex predator at the top of the current Metaverse lineup needs no introduction. Axie Infinity is a well known and popular play to earn game, which has a current marketcap of modest-by-TAM $8.95 billion. Hence, it's the number one in our list of top 5 Metaverse tokens. Axie Infinity runs on the Ethereum side chain Ronin. The players can earn by competing PVP battles, breeding Axies and selling them to the marketplace, or collecting rare Axies. Axie Infinity uses a dual token structure like most Metaverse projects Smooth Love Potion (SLPs) which are needed to breed Axies or the more commonly known AXS - needed for governance and earn a share of the platform fees. In Axie Infinity, players use action cards to command what action their Axies will be doing for that turn. It can be considered close to the Pokemon game. The game is growing massively, offers a lifeline to many people in developing countries to make their living and is likely to retain the top position in top 5 Metaverse tokens, for quite a while. top 5 metaverse tokens© Cryptoticker The post Top 5 Metaverse Tokens By Market Capitalization appeared first on CryptoTicker.
