Metaverse Weekly Wrap-Up: Apr 9–15

OneLand
5 min readApr 18, 2022

Keyword of the Week: Land Rewards

Highlight of the Week: Worldwide Webb released their “ultimate alpha thread & dev spaces recap”.

Part 1: Data Report

Metaverse Heatmap

The OneLand Heat Indicator moved back into positive territory this week, up from 39 to 53, on the back of a solid performance from WorldWide Webb. Overall, and with the exception of WorldWide Webb, heat levels remain in the red.

Land Trade View

The trading volumes of virtual land in NFTWorlds and Worldwide Webb increased last week. Though recovering slightly from last week’s 20% dip in average parcel price, price movements in TSB still indicate a downward trend.

Users Trend

As can be seen from the above chart, the performance of Worldwide Webb was a bright spark over the past week. Economic activity has been on the rise within the confines of the 2D pixelated metaverse since releasing its “ultimate alpha thread & dev spaces recap” on April 10. And this situation reached new heights on April 12 when they announced their Land Rewards — “all lands get resources, tokens, votes, access to rare items and access to rare raids.” The number of Unique Traders of virtual apartments on the day shot up to 359, almost 3 times that of The Sandbox, and its highest since February.

Part 2: Weekly Events Wrap-up

13/04

  • TSB reopened the S2 experience Race Maze, the first of more S2 experiences to return.

12/04

  • Decentraland announced its partnership with Ethereum Push Notification Service (EPNS) to build a communication layer that allows for seamless communication between the platform and its users.

14/04

  • DCL held their monthly DAO’s activities in their Discord. On the discussion agenda was that of setting up a DCL forum.

13/04

  • CV’s NFT gating went into Beta testing. All moderators should be able to set up an NFT to gate their parcel. In simple terms, NFT gating is an NFT door lock, and only people with the corresponding ticket can enter the building.
  • Cryptovoxels released more new functions and bug fixes:

15/04

  • Tron’s Justin Sun broadcast live at the CV Tron HQ.

12/04

  • Submissions closed for the first batch of applicants for the Somnium Creators Fund 2022.

13/04

  • Somnium Space announced that they were developing a ‘Live Forever’ mode for people to talk to their loved ones even after they die.

10/04

  • WWWebb released its “ultimate alpha thread & dev spaces recap”:

— Huge social updates for Land

1. synchronized video share system for apartments via YouTube

2. token-gated apartments & design delegation

3. hotlinks straight into specific apartments

4. multiplayer & proximity voice chat private beta

— Massive upcoming utility for Land. apartments could be vendors, blacksmiths, forgers, bakeries, trading posts, nightclubs, etc

— Apartment reveal

1. 8 zones in WWWebb designed to be more unique, exciting & lively

2. apartments randomly assigned to zones & buildings using Chain Link VRF

— Gaming

1. an SDK will be open for everyone to create interoperable NFT minigames inside WWWebb

2. a battle royale racing game is in the works

— V2

1. V2 is the new codebase for apartments & the whole future game world

2. V2 will support a Layer 2 scaling solution

12/04

  • WWWebb updated their homepage.
  • WWWebb announced that all Lands would receive resources, tokens, votes, access to rare items and access to rare raids.

11/04

  • NFTWorlds added more support for managed wallets. The pay/send system on NFT Worlds supports managed wallets out of the box, also with the ability to easily swap to any other wallet type (MetaMask, Wallet Connect, etc).
  • NFTWorlds announced in Discord the release of its NFTWorlds launcher.

13/04

  • NFTWorlds released full details & utility for the ecosystem’s second NFT Collection — NFT Worlds Genesis Avatars.

— Market + Mint Revenues

The NFTWorlds launcher comes integrated with its own marketplace. Each transaction has an associated $WRLD fee. 25% of fees will be redistributed as $WRLD tokens back to Genesis Avatars holders.

50% to builder and player incentives program (over a period of 18–24 mths).

20% to Avatars team.

25% to the NFTWorlds team.

— Mint

Initial White List (WL) Mint

10,000 avatars allocated. NFT World holders can mint 1 NFTWorlds Genesis Avatar for 1 NFT World.

Price: 0.4 ETH / avatar.

Public Mint

5,000 NFT Worlds Genesis Avatars. To follow WL sale. The public mint price will be a dutch auction starting at 1 ETH/avatar, reducing to a bottom price of 0.4 ETH/ avatar.

15/04

  • NFTWorlds released the alpha version of its NFTWorlds game client, supported by all Windows, Mac (M1 & Intel Chip) and Linux operating systems.

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