In the Metaverse, digital materials will have their own agency. Here players can experiment with and buy different materials, exploring their impact on the environment through the computational power they use.

Digital material economies will be defined by the labour used to produce them, and their computational efficiency. The architecture of the metaverse will be defined by these new material hierarchies.

The economy of NFT artworks seems key to the Metaverse, with people paying for one-off digital artefacts defined through artificial scarcity. This can also shape how people see the world differently.

In the game, different neighbourhoods are defined by their function, some comparable to real-world urbanism and others divergent. ‘Farming’ is no longer in fields, but instead is the repetitive mining of digital currency.

As players create new architectures within the Metaverse, they will be subjected to new forms of value system. This might include both digital capital (cryptocurrency value) and cultural/social value.

As the Metaverse will be created from interoperable parts, so it is likely that Non-Fungible Buildings will be created from a diverse set of models and influences, allowing people to realise their architectural desires.