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Asharq Al-Awsat
Asharq Al-Awsat
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Asharq Al-Awsat

HISTORICAL FACTS: Gaming platforms flickplay the sandbox take steps toward metaverse | History Defined

Virtual land plots on The Sandbox, a gaming platform that allows users to build a virtual world using non-fungible tokens (NFTs), are seen in this illustration picture taken March 25, 2022. (Reuters)

Gaming companies FlickPlay and The Sandbox announced a new partnership on Monday that will allow players to use a blockchain asset on both platforms, representing a key step in the building of the metaverse.

The idea of the metaverse involves people moving freely between virtual worlds on different platforms and taking their virtual clothing and other belongings with them, a concept called interoperability.

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