Decentraland a 3D virtual reality platform that consists of 90 601 parcels of land (~23 km2 or ~9 sq mi) was founded in 2015 by Ari Meilich and Esteban Ordano. Decentraland was developed by a for-profit company called Metaverse Holdings Limited which is based in China but registered in The Cayman Islands. Decentraland development is coordinated by The Decentraland Foundation- a nonprofit based in California. They were able to launch the mainnet in 2020 and then both stepped b

A Vietnam-based company named Sky Mavis made a game called Axie Infinity in 2018. The founder is Trung Nguyen. Axie Infinity raised around 10 million dollars across various ICO and sales of in-game assets between 2018 and 2020. Axie infinity exploded earlier this year when Sky Mavis introduced the ronin side chain a layer 2 scaling solution for Ethereum specifically designed for Axie Infinity. The game itself is often described as a combination of Pokemon and Tamagochi. The d