Metaverse, a word used to refer to a virtual world or planet, has gained popularity after Facebook rebranded it's name to Meta. Metaverses is made up of different aspects of social media, augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), digital currencies and online gaming. People obviously can use this digital space to interact in the manner that were not possible before.
Not just normal conversations or events, the online digital space now allows people to buy and sell and even invest in real estate. But what about the mode of payment? Currently, these virtual goods can be bought using metaverse crypto or native tokens of the metaverse project that you choose to buy and sell from or invest in.
Metaverse crypto are types of virtual currency that can be used to make virtual transactions within the particular metaverse project when i say particular i mean you can't for example take Sand token and trade in Gala metaverse. But you can trade the metaverse tokens on exchanges like WazirX, Coinbase, and Binance.
This are my top 4 metaverse tokens currently
1). SAND TOKEN: This is the token that is used in the SANDBOX Metaverse, You can earn SAND tokens by completing various duties in the Sandbox metaverse. You can then use these SAND tokens to buy land and other NFTs.
The current price of sand token as of the time of writing this article is $7 per one sand token
2). AXS (Axie Infinity): Axie Infinity is also a play-to-earn metaverse game, which is ver similar to Pokémon but in a virtual space. In this axie game, you have axies that you can sell, breed, buy, trade, and battle other people axies to earn the AXS tokens. The monsters themselves are NFTs.
The AXS token has skyrocket over 5000% percent and at the current price of $132 per one AXS with a market cap of $8 billion
3). GALA (Gala Games)
Gala Games is a gaming space powered by the Ethereum blockchain GALA. Unlike sand token and axs, GALA can be used between multiple GALA games, meaning you can use the token in multiple games that is playable within the Gala blockchain.
The company is still growing with some of the gala games not out yet, GALA price is at $0.635 currently, because it has seen a rise in price of nearly 90% in the last week. It has a market cap of $5 billion.
4). MANA (Decentraland): Decentraland is a metaverse you can visit by using your internet browser. The native token MANA helps you buy and sell virtual land in this metaverse. Players in the world own and develop parcels of virtual land and manage them like how you do a real estate and investors can buy these virtual plots for a price set buy the seller.
It currently runs polygon blockchain for allowing lower gas fees, The price of MANA is currently at $4.72.