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Decentraland: an ambitious virtual world with an unpolished feel

  • Decentraland’s Ethereum-based virtual world went live this week.
  • I spent several hours exploring the world, participating in activities, visiting locations, and experiencing all that I could.
  • Decentraland is an ambitious virtual world with an unpolished feel.
  • When I first started exploring Decentraland on its launch day, I found little guidance on what to do next.
  • I decided to cut my foray short and explore later that evening.
  • I put in two and a half hours of playtime, taking notes and screenshots as I went.
  • To be clear, this review is not intended to be an examination of the economic underpinnings of Decentraland, its token model, or how the Ethereum blockchain is utilized here.
  • My colleague Steven Zheng wrote a fine deep-dive about Decentraland’s core concept in 2018, so I’ll excerpt his piece as a bit of a preface.
  • “Real estate on Decentraland is represented by a non-fungible cryptographic token called LAND. Users can purchase LAND using a native token called MANA. Similar to the real world, where a record of ownership is kept for a property, on Decentraland, ownership of LAND parcels is recorded on the Ethereum blockchain. And

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