TL;DR

• The Sandbox just raised $20M to help them build out the metaverse for mobile.

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Alright, let’s cap things off with a bit more fumb (fun + dumb) news.

Ever wanted to explore the metaverse (i.e. the 3D version of the internet) from your phone?

Nope? Nah, us either.

But it will soon be possible, thanks to The Sandbox’s next development of a decentralized metaverse for mobile.

Here’s the argument for this:

Now, we get it - we’re not in 2008 anymore - but remember when Zuck decided to focus all of Facebook’s attention, energy and budget on mobile?

Then suddenly, instead of people using a clunky web-based version on their smartphone, literally everyone started using the FB mobile app while waiting in line, sitting at the DMV, or while on the toilet?

The hope is that a similar thing will happen.

Instead of scrolling through Instagram, when The Sandbox metaverse makes it way to mobile, in the ideal world at least some of those folks will choose to explore the metaverse.

But we’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: in order for the metaverse to become popular, people need a reason to come, to stay, and most importantly, to come back.

The Sandbox just raised $20M to help with their vision of bringing the metaverse to mobile which is a good sign for the web3 industry.

Let’s just hope they don’t build the greatest metaverse in the world but leave people hanging on that last part.

(A reason to come back)!