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YouTuber Jarvis Johnson encountered less than 1,000 English-speaking users in Mark Zuckerberg’s $36 billion metaverse . The vast majority were under the age of 18. Children rampantly circumvent Zuckerberg’s poorly-enforced age limits and overwhelm gameplay. Jarvis spent a full week living in Meta’s Horizon Worlds, the most popular metaverse. ‘Most popular’ in this case is certainly less than superlative, with Meta estimating fewer than 200,000 monthly users. Unfortunately, Jarvis’ investigation found that Horizon Worlds has closer to 900 daily users. Other metaverse s are even more sparsely populated. Plots of virtual land in NFT-based worlds have declined 98% or worse, and alternate metaverse s barely exist beyond a marketing buzzword. For adults wanting to interact with others in their age bracket and escape the hundreds of children running rampant throughout Horizon Worlds , enterprising players have engineered elaborate tests of adulthood to grant entry to members-o...

Dypius – formerly DeFi Yield Protocol – will soon launch live user testing for its interactive Metaverse game.  Participating players will be eligible for both guaranteed rewards and additional prizes, worth $50,000 in total.  As announced by Dypius on Friday, anyone is eligible to apply for the game’s whitelist . However, only 500 users across the Ethereum, Avalanche, and BNB Chain networks will be selected to participate in testing. Specifically, 100 new players will be selected to test the game and provide feedback every week, over the next five weeks.  Each of those users will receive $50 in guaranteed rewards for their feedback and involvement, cumulatively worth $25,000. Meanwhile, another $25,000 will be dished out through “hidden extra benefits” and airdrops to randomly selected wallets. Rewards will be paid in each respective player’s currency. To earn rewards, players must provide feedback within the official Dypius Discord channel. Dypius will provide updates imp...