A lot has been said and written about the metaverse over the last year or so. In fact, everyone seems to have a different idea about what it is and what it will mean for our lives.

There are so many differing opinions on the subject that Apple CEO Tim Cook recently said that one of the reasons he personally doesn’t think it’s the next big thing is because no one agrees on what it really is.

Mark Zuckerberg thinks it will revolve around virtual reality (VR), the headsets his company sells, and a kind of 3D version of Facebook where we all exist as cartoon avatars.

Proponents of the web3 model, on the other hand, believe that decentralization and blockchain-based platforms like Decentraland and Sandbox are the…