What is the Metaverse? How can Blockchain play a role?

Jan Scheele
8 min readAug 23, 2021

Recently, Mark Zuckerberg shared Facebook’s plans to turn its social media business into a metaverse. And other companies are already developing metaverse-like products, such as Christian Louboutin and Fortnite. What is the metaverse? And how can blockchain technology help shape this? More on that in my newest blog.

Wi-Fi, smartphones, cryptocurrencies and augmented reality, they were all predicted in 1992 by ‘tech nostradamus’ Neal Stephenson in his book Snow Crash. Also known as the “Bible of Silicon Valley”. The book was even the…

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Jan Scheele

CEO @ Blockchain Industry / Keynote Speaker / Serial Entrepreneur / Digital Leader @ World Economic Forum / Organiser 50 TEDx events globally