# The metaverse is money and crypto is king – why you’ll be on a blockchain when you’re virtual-world hopping

- Link: https://www.widthness.com/the-metaverse-is-money-and-crypto-is-king-why-youll-be-on-a-blockchain-when-youre-virtual-world-hopping/
- Published: 2022-01-17T09:00:04-06:00
- Author: Curated by Theresa Wysocki

Image caption: In the metaverse, your avatar, the clothes it wears and the things it carries belong to you thanks to blockchain. Image credit: Duncan Rawlinson – Duncan.co/Flickr, CC BY-NC. Article by Rabindra Ratan and Dar Meshi. The Conversation – January 14, 2022. You may think the metaverse will be a bunch of interconnected virtual spaces – the world wide web but accessed through virtual reality. This is largely correct, but there is also a fundamental but slightly more cryptic side to the metaverse that will set it apart from today’s internet: the blockchain. […] Click here to view original web page at theconversation.com