Decentraland

Decentraland
Original author(s)	Ariel Meilich, Esteban Ordano
Developer(s)	Decentraland Foundation
Initial release	February 20, 2020
Written in	C#, GLSL, and HTML
Engine	Three.js (−2018); Babylon.js (2018–2019); Unity (2019–);
Available in	English (official)
Type	Virtual world
License	Apache-2.0
Website	decentraland.org

Decentraland is a 3D virtual world browser-based platform. Users may buy virtual plots of land in the platform as NFTs via the MANA cryptocurrency, which uses the Ethereum blockchain. Designers can create and sell clothes and accessories for the avatars to be used in the virtual world.

It was opened to the public in February 2020, and is overseen by the nonprofit Decentraland Foundation. In 2017, the platform raised $26 million in its initial coin offering (ICO); by 2022 indy100 reported that it had a $1.2 billion market evaluation. While DappRadar found that as few as 38 users performed currency transactions in a single day, Decentraland claimed that 8,000 people per day used the platform in 2022.

Decentraland has received widespread criticism by technology and video game journalists for its technical bugs and mostly empty virtual world.

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