Interest in Decentraland’s digital properties is growing even more strongly. This week alone, the blockchain-based metaverse sold over $1.000.000 worth of 5 digital properties, while sales in the past month have exceeded $7 million.
Decentraland one of the virtual gaming metaverses based on technology blockchain best known in the crypto industry, sold 5 digital real estate properties for more than $1.000.000.
According to data from DappRadar, one of the largest providers of information and metrics in the crypto industry, only 1 of these 5 digital properties was sold for $415.390 Last Wednesday. Another of the properties in the virtual game reached an offer of almost $300.000, while three other properties exceeded $3 each.
Just like indicates According to DappRadar, the figures moving around in Decentraland right now are not the result of an incident or an isolated event, but rather a sign of the growing interest of investors in virtual worlds. The data provider notes that in the last month, sales and trading volume on Decentraland exceeded $7,7 million.
Nonfungible, another industry data provider, shows higher figures than DappRadar. According to this portal, the number of investors in this project was few in the last week, just about 280 investors, although their investments were quite significant. Decentraland sales in the last week exceeded 16 million dollars.
Source: Nonfungible
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New releases and innovations renew interest in Decentraland
While the project may have remained a bit static for some time, Decentraland is integrating new games and features that are capturing the attention of more users and investors. Recently, the metaverse developers revealed a major partnership with the Amnesia club, for the launch of two dance floors, called “Amnesia Experience” and “Amnesia Hype,” that recreate all the nightlife of Ibiza within the digital world.
The alliance between the metaverse and the Ibiza club will bring famous DJs and various kinds of live music for attendees, as well as spaces for companies and organizations to present and market with products such as non-fungible tokens or NFTOn the other hand, for this Wednesday 28th, Decentraland prepares the launch from the famous Atari casino in Las Vegas, which will feature a live performance by legendary DJ Dillion Francis.
The developers of this metaverse are focused on turning the project into more than a video game, transforming live events into a space to attract thousands of users, who will be able to share and interact virtually with famous artists.
Metaverses, the worlds of the future
Every day, the concept of the virtual world and the metaverse is gaining more interest among investors and users, who find within these spaces a better version of the real world linked to complex financial markets.
The ability to acquire and explore new lands, design and build properties of any kind, according to each user's imagination, is opening the doors to new forms of economies that have already captured the attention of everyone, including organizations and real estate companies.
In 2018, Bloomberg reported that Ryan Kunzmann, investor of goods and cryptocurrencies, , attended a meeting at a bar in New York, along with about 20 other people, to discuss their digital real estate purchases in the virtual mega city of Genesis City, in Decentraland. The land area of this digital city is comparable to Washington DC
One of the largest digital land sales in the city was a 41.000-square-meter plot that sold for $572.000.
Other digital world projects, such as Somnium space, cryptovoxels y Axie Infinity, have also held significant sales of virtual land or real estate on the blockchain. For example, Axie Infinity set a record in mid-February with the sale of the Genesis farm, made up of 9 digital plots, for a total of 1,5 million dollars. The buyer said that he made the investment to acquire the rarest lands of Axie, which is becoming an autonomous country, with its own citizens, its own economy and its own national identity.
In other cases, some virtual land owners have even exchanged their digital assets for real-world properties and vice versa, giving an idea of the full economic potential that moves these spaces.
MANA, 4.000% appreciation in the last year
The Decentraland ecosystem features a native token called MANA, which has appreciated by more than 4.000% in the past year. This token reached an all-time high in the middle of this month, with a value of $1,58 per unit.
At the time of this edition, MANA is listed on the markets with a price of $1,26, and its market capitalization exceeds $1.590 billion.
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