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2023 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

Metaverse and Non-fungible Tokens—A Comparative Study

Author : Vikrant Rana

Published in: Comparative Approaches in Law and Policy

Publisher: Springer Nature Singapore

Abstract

The term Metaverse refers to a unified network of virtual worlds enabling multiple users to connect, interact, play games and buy stuffs. In general, the Metaverse is an extensive concept wherein Non-Fungible Tokens may serve an essential concept in the broad ecosystem of Metaverse. In order to comprehensively understand the concepts of Metaverse and NFT’s, it is important to be versed with a few other concepts as well. Before proceeding further with the chapter, few a conceptual and contextual introductions are provided below for better understanding of the Metaverse ecosystem.

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Title: Metaverse and Non-fungible Tokens—A Comparative Study
Author: Vikrant Rana
Publisher: Springer Nature Singapore
Book: Comparative Approaches in Law and Policy
Print ISBN: 978-981-9944-59-0

Electronic ISBN: 978-981-9944-60-6

Copyright Year: 2023
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-4460-6_15