Decentraland’s billion-dollar ‘metaverse’ reportedly had 38 active users in one day
General view of the Etro fashion show during Metaverse Fashion Week on March 25th, 2022, hosted by Decentraland. | Photo by Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images This year, I've received about 70 pitches about metaverse" activities for big brand names like Samsung and UPS in Decentraland, which, as CoinDesk reports, is nearly double the 38 user number recorded by blockchain-watcher DappRadar during one 24-hour period earlier this week.
Decentraland tweeted that it actually has around 8,000 daily active users (DAU) and says it's working with DappRadar to widen its tracking to include additional smart contracts and transaction types to get a more accurate picture of user activity.
If you're not familiar with Decentraland, it's a Web3 metaverse" built on selling 90,000 plots of virtual land, drawing media coverage like this New York Times report that quotes one investor saying, Why don't we go in...