How is NFT useful in the Metaverse

Faiver
3 min readNov 8, 2021

Relation between NFT and Metaverse

With the existence of the World Wide Web for over 25 years now, we have seen an incredible advancement in the digital world. From us being limited to a small network of users to advancing to a large population around the globe. And now almost everyone who is even slightly inclined towards the digital sphere is aware of the term metaverse.

Metaverse can be defined as an extensive online realm where people interact via digital avatars. What was always a part of a good sci-fi movie is now becoming a reality. We can say that the metaverse is an online world that looks similar to reality but in fact, is computer generated. Metaverse is gradually developing to bridge the gap between everyday life and that on the internet working ahead to give a more diverse user experience.

Now talking about NFT and metaverse and as to why NFT is useful in the metaverse, we can say that the metaverse and the NFT have become more and more related.

The metaverse with the entry of Web3, or we can say decentralized internet, links the NFTs with the metaverse and allows the users to enter a new world. NFT being a blockchain-based token has seen a major uplift in the digital sphere. Anything that can be called digital assets being sold and purchased in the online community is also being seen as a future investment. Although the current uses of NFTs are still not done in the full potential as it has just started to explore, and with metaverse, everything in the virtual world will be represented in the metaverse that means owning, selling, and transferring of assets will have a digital representation and be done within the metaverse.

The digital market space has already had a taste of how useful NFT has become given how the NFT technology grants true ownership over the digital items. More and more NFT projects are moving into the metaverse. The games that are blockchain-based using NFTs as rewards, items other events in the gaming world can be taken as a prototype of the metaverse. For example, Axie Infinity is the biggest NFT project.

As we talk about metaverse combining all the online worlds and making a virtual world, blockchain-based games are definitely a vehicle for this. And with this, the digital avatars tied together with the user identity are one way how NFTs provide access to the metaverse.

NFTs concept of granting ownership over the digital assets is something that metaverse is now taking to the virtual world. The AI, virtual shopping, social media interaction all slowly seeing a change and becoming a part of the metaverse need NFT technology to simplify the complex process. As virtual reality develops and also the accessibility of the internet and of course, the blockchain being used on a massive level, metaverse along with NFT will develop further. Metaverse is still in its early phase, so it the NFT technology and with these combined together, we are ready to see new horizons.

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Faiver is a platform that will publish unique content of arts, videos, audios, music, games, animations through NFT and sell them to fans.