This billion-dollar metaverse claims it has 7000 daily users, not 38

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We've heard the term "dead game(opens in new tab)" before. It's an inflammatory way to judge live service games for losing players, even in circumstances when they measurably have hundreds of thousands of players. But what do you call a metaverse that has a low player count? A «dead metaverse?» A «metacrypt?»

Last week blockchain analytics firm DappRadar reported that Ethereum-based metaverse Decentraland(opens in new tab) only had daily 38 active users with a peak of only 657 active users, numbers that would surely inspire some «dead metaverse» discourse. Decentraland, which is valued at over a billion dollars, pushed back on that reporting, saying its daily users are actually in the high thousands, thank you very much. 

Decentraland took to <a href=«https://twitter.com/decentraland/status/1578454103692546048?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw» data-url=«https://twitter.com/decentraland/status/1578454103692546048?ref_src=» https:>Twitter

to refute the reporting, saying, «some websites are tracking only specific smart contract transactions but reporting them as daily active users DAU, which is inaccurate.» The company posted its September user data showing a monthly active user count of 56,697 users.

Let's have a look at some of September's data:56,697 MAU1,074 Users interacting with smart contracts1,732 minted Emotes6,315 sold Wearables300 Creators received royalties161 created Community Events 148 DAO ProposalsOctober 7, 2022

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