Decentraland press kit
Real estate is booming in the metaverse.
A plot of digital land in Decentraland — an online, virtual-only environment — sold for a record $2.43 million worth of cryptocurrency on Tuesday, more than double the prior record high for virtual real estate of more than $913,000.
That's also a smidge higher than the average home in Manhattan, and well above prices in the other boroughs as well as those in San Francisco.
Metaverse Group, a subsidiary of Tokens.com, completed the purchase for a patch of digital land for 618,000 MANA, or about $2,428,740 at the time, according to a Decentraland spokesperson and a statement by Tokens.com. MANA is Decentraland's cryptocurrency, which users employ to buy and sell assets in the
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