How YOU can invest in Metaverse - YouTube

Hi, everyone. Welcome to today's video.

I hope all of you are doing well on this video.

I'm going to help you understand the potential of Metaverse.

Now, please don't drop off. Please don't drop off.

I know many of you might not like this video gaming stuff and virtual reality

stuff and artificial intelligence type of stuff, but I urge you to listen to this

video because there is a very important lesson here.

Every decade gets an investment

opportunity that makes them really rich in our parents'time.

That was investing in real estate.

In my opinion, in our generation, Metaverse could be one such opportunity.

Therefore, we spend 1015 minutes listening to this video.

You will understand a lot of things in a very intuitive manner.

That's 1 second key point.

I have made an equity investment in an Indian Metaverse company.

I'm going to explain you, why have I done it?

And I will see your feedback in the comments section.

Whether you think that that Metaverse can go big or not.

And final key point that I'm going to talk about on today's video is that if you are

interested in investing in Metaverse, how you can do it.

So let's start the discussion and let me

first and foremost, tell you what Metaverse actually is.

I had made a separate video on Meta that is Facebook so you can watch it there

to understand more about a more palpable Meta version to say.

But let me summarize the entire story here.

So people get confused quite a bit.

When they start talking about Metaverse, they assume that it's some kind of a video

game and people are selling land or Facebook is doing something with Oculus.

So let me help you understand that point in a slightly more intuitive manner.

First. So Metaverse is nothing but a new planet.

That is how I will define it.

That right now we are living on Earth.

Now you have created a new planet in virtual reality.

And that is what a Metaverse

So you can see Mark Zuckerberg wearing an Oculus and looking at something.

So he's looking at this new planet.

And there on that Metaverse, that is a new planet.

He can do a bunch of different things.

For example, he can walk around in his avatar, he can interact with other people.

For example, if I'm there, he can say Hi to me and I can say Hi to him.

We can go to work from our communities.

We can play games together and a bunch of different things.

Right. So in simple terms,

it's a new planet and it has a bunch of functionalities associated with it.

For example, right now, when you go and play a video game,

there is a bunch of functionalities associated with it.

For example, in the old times, people used to play Mario Aladdin.

Then they started playing something like God of wars.

I'm a big fan of God of wars. All the God of wars.

And he hit the like button will make me super happy.

So you play all these different games.

What are you essentially doing?

You have been transported to a new planet and you are getting entertained.

The value that you are deriving from that new planet.

That game that you are playing is that you

are deriving entertainment value out of it.

Very important point.

So right now on video games, you are deriving this entertainment value.

Now imagine a planet where you can derive a lot more than this.

You can go party with your friends, you can go launch your own

cryptocurrencies or a new world version of Currencies.

You can go and start new businesses on that planet.

So the entire value that can be derived out of a meta worse makes meta worse one

of the foremost innovations in my opinion for our generation.

And therefore, I feel that you should learn more about it,

figure out what investment options are there, and accordingly,

take bets now just to very quickly round up the conversations.

Right now, there are two types of Metaverses right.

The first type is the meta or the Facebook type, which is palpable.

Right.

Because all our parents understand who Mans Zuckerberg is.

He owns Instagram.

He owns WhatsApp he owns Facebook and no meta.

So that's, like more palpable version of Metaverse.

He's also trying to create a new planet,

and another new planet is being created in the crypto or

blockchain world. Right.

So these are two variants of Metaverse

that exist right now, and you can invest in both these Metaverse .

For example, if you want to invest

in Facebook or Meta, you can go and buy a US stock, which is meta.

You can go and buy Facebook stock.

So you as a retail investor, become an investor in Meta.

Your second option is that you can go buy

NFPs non fungible tokens, and you can also buy certain cryptocurrencies.

For example, you can buy something like

Mana, which is the cryptocurrency for the center line.

There are Metaverses like Decentraland, Axie Infinity, sandbox.

These are all competitors to physical or more palpable Metaverse

That is meta.

Now, you might have a very important

question for me here that you spoke about two different types of Metaverse.

One is Facebook meta Zuckerberg, that's 1 second you spoke about crypto Metaverse.

So which one is better and as retail investors what we should do.

So, in all honesty,

I'm invested in both because we don't know which of these Metaverses will win.

So I'm investing in both the places I know for a fact that Metaverse going to win.

So therefore, I'm picking up really good

projects in this meta type of companies, and also in this crypto world.

Crypto Metaverses .

But here's an important story that you need to understand that Facebook very

recently tried to launch a crypto coin called as Libra.

Right. And the project did not go really well.

Why did it not go really well?

I'll help you understand the reason, but first, let us understand why did

Facebook decide to launch Libra or they have not disclosed the entire plans.

But the back end story to this is

that Facebook actually wants to make a meta worse.

They want to get into the crypto space as well.

They have been trying really, really hard.

Crypto is modulated by decentralization,

decentralization means that there is no central authority.

And what is Facebook known for?

Facebook is basically known for aggregating your data,

packaging it and selling it to highest bidders that are advertisers.

So no one trusts Facebook. From that perspective,

no one is believing the entire audiences are not believing in the narrative

that you know what Facebook is truly going to create a decentralized system.

Therefore, their Liberal project did not go really well.

That's partly partly in order to create a new Metaverse or a new planet.

What do you need?

You need people to believe in it, number one that you need to have customers.

Second, you need to have developers because this planet needs to be built

on technology, which is the blockchain technology.

So you need developers to come onto that

Metaverse and start creating more products and systems and processes.

Now, that has not happened for Facebook.

That has, however, happen for crypto or blockchain oriented Metaverse.

So let me take you through one of the key examples, which is called as Decentraland.

And this is what Decentraland looks like.

Now, this will look like a futuristic video game for you.

But trust me, this is more than a video game.

So let me give you a very quick tour of this on Decentraland

You can create,

explore and trade in the first ever virtual world owned by its users.

This is decentralized.

That is the power of Decentraland. Let us scroll through.

Let me tell you some more things.

Lose yourself in this amazing evolving

world so you can do a bunch of different things.

Explore landowners by users to experience incredible scenes and structures.

Is that right?

You can create is the limit of your imaginations.

You can buy, sell land, estates,

avatars variables named the center line marketplace, stocking the very best

digital goods and paraphernalia backed by Ethereum blockchain.

So this entire Decentraland is a planet

in itself, planet in itself, and it is powered by a currency called as Mana.

I will show that to you in a minute.

What can you do with this currency?

You can actually buy a piece of land real estate.

You can buy all these different different things, right?

You can in fact, trade it.

There are different NFTs that you can

trade on a platform called as Openseas as well.

So this is our biggest NFP Marketplace,

so you can do all these different bunch of things.

So all these digital assets, all these digital assets that you see

these become tradable because of the NFT functionalities.

Now, there are two, three key things that I'll quickly explain

because some of you might be complete beginners.

So let me first and foremost, talk about what NFTs are.

Now, this is an NFT. Okay.

Now this is a virtual piece of art or

wearable or a gadget that is there on a virtual world, right.

For example, if you are playing,

let's say Call of Duty, which is a video game and you buy a gun,

you buy a really nice gun, you spend your real $100 to buy that gun.

Now you can't do anything much with it outside that game.

But on an NFT, what you can do is that, for example, this jacket,

you can go on open seas and you can sell it off for real money.

So this is the functionality of blockchain based NFTs that they become tradable.

They become like commodities.

You can sell them, buy them, you can monetize them.

And that is the reason why the next leg

of video gaming is Metaverse because there is real incentive for people to play

engage with these games because they get to make money.

There is a game called as Axie Infinity,

where if you participate on the tournaments that are happening

in Axie Infinity, you can make real money, right?

A large population of Philippines ended up

playing and exploring this game because the money that they were making by playing

Infinity was much larger than they could have made by doing their day job.

So a lot of people in Philippines quit doing their day jobs and started playing

this video game full time to make money and make real income.

So that is the power of Metaverses.

Right now there are three major Metaverses in the crypto world.

Right? One is Axie Infinity Infinity.

Second, we are talking about Decentraland

and third is Sandbox.

These are three major Metaverses that are existing in the crypto space and looks

like that one of these three will win the race.

Now you would say this sounds super exciting.

I want to invest in it.

What should I do?

You can actually go on wall and you can

buy a coin called as Mana, and you can see the returns of this coin.

Right. This has been going crazy.

Right? So it launched somewhere in 2017.

The performance was very flat for two, three years.

Then it has skyrocketed from last year onwards from approximately

00:15, it has gone up to 4.2 also, which is like exponential return on this

asset because the entire meta narrative is picking up steam.

A lot of companies are coming up.

A lot of companies are taking their claim

that they will become the next prominent meta.

Worse.

Right now the war is going on between four different companies.

One is Facebook.

Second is Decentraland. Third is Sandbox.

Four is Axienfinity.

All have their different utilities.

And these are the leading Metaverses that is out there.

Now you would say, did you purchase MENA?

I have purchased MENA,

but in very small quantities, I am still sitting on massive profits

on it because I believe in this entire Metaverse narrative.

Now you would say Akshat you are speaking about like some futuristic stuff

which will probably fly, which will probably not fly.

Can you show us some real world evidence of big companies investing in it?

Okay.

So two things right that I would like to show.

So first and foremost that companies like Microsoft and Facebook are building

Metaverses Facebook, unfortunately has failed in its crypto game Libra project.

Therefore, it has moved to a physical, more palpable type of a meta was taking

a completely different narrative, so probably it might be there.

Secondly, point, you need to take a look at the marketplace.

So this is market.decentraland.org And

here you can start trading all these different NFTS.

Right.

So these are newest items so you can buy it right here.

You just need to connect your wallet

and you can start buying all these different stuff.

How to do it if you want to know, I will create a separate video on this second.

This is what is super interesting, right?

These are parcels of land that you can buy and a lot of big companies, for example,

Coin Market Cap is a real world company that is buying land in Metaverses

similarly, Binance is buying land on metaverses.

You have other big big companies that are jumping in and are buying land on all

these Metaverses because they understand the functionality of it.

They understand that a lot of users are getting attracted to it.

There is real world utility of these things.

You would say, how real world utility? Okay.

Go back to the Philippines example that I

was telling you one is that, hey, go play like some football video game.

You're wasting your time.

You're not making any money and your mom

will be after your life that he goes and study.

Otherwise, you'll not be able to build your career or hay daughter don't waste

your time playing all this video game stuff.

It's just not worth it, right? It's a waste of time.

You'll never be able to build career.

Option two, go and play Axie Infinity.

You make real world money.

You put food on the table

for you to your mom that hey, let me play this video game.

I'll end up making $100 from it.

So this is actually becoming a career for people because there is a way

that by participating in these Metaverses, you can unlock NFTs and trade it here.

Right? Trade it here, sell and make real money.

Trade in these assets.

And this becomes like a major part of the economy going forward.

So from that perspective, Metaverse is here to stay.

It's not going anywhere in what form shape it exists that remains to be seen

and which will be the market leader that remains to be seen.

Okay, so in that context,

let me talk about my investment in one of the companies.

The company's name is Zionverse it's a Metaverse

It's an India Focus Metaverse.

So essentially what they do is that they create different series of games

and there is an NFT that they have recently launched.

It's called a Laxshmi NF T.

I'll put the links in the description box.

Also, you can check it out.

It's a fascinating company.

I will invite the founder also

on my channel someday to discuss more about the NFT economy.

Let me know if you want me to do that super fascinating space.

They are creating an India focused Metaverse.

Now the Indian narrative stays behind when it comes to technology.

There has been like a lot of problems

in terms of propagating technology from India.

From that perspective.

So Zionverse has been able to create an India Focus Metaverse.

Now you would say this is like a replicate

or something like Axie Infinity or Decentraland, etc.

And no, it's an Indianised version.

Yes, it propagates Indian mythology, India's philosophy and brings out a lot

of interesting learning elements to it as well.

There is opportunity to make money in this Metaverse.

Also, I will release a separate video on this entire company altogether so

that you understand how Indians are also picking up their NFC game.

You are not getting left behind in this creator economy.

So you learn more about that.

We have recently launched something called Laxshmi NFT which allows you to do fixed

deposit on your NFT and make returns out of it.

So again, a very fascinating concept

which embodies finance gamification and blockchain technology to make money.

This is defining the next leg of technology.

I would appreciate all of your support because there are very few Indian

companies that are doing it at this scale right now.

So this is where I'll start summarizing the video.

Number one, I hope you understand the concept of what Metaverse is.

Number two.

There are specific investment opportunities in Metaverse.

I am very bullish about this space.

Number three, if you are a retail investor,

you can go with more palatable Metaverse like Facebook or Meta,

or you can invest in a crypto focus Metaverse or you can invest

in an India Focus Metaverse also, but definitely do learn about this space.

This is an evolving space.

You as an investor will find great

potential in this because the idea is nascent.

It will continue to evolve with time

with people's feedback around and it will retain scale over time.

But this is definitely a narrative

that you should invest more time learning about.

Let me know if you have more questions.

I'll be happy to do a part two of this video.

This was an introduction path.

I'll do a slightly more advanced part about Metaverses and NFTs.

Let me know in the comments section.

If there is enough traction, enough comments and enough likes for this

video, I will definitely make part two of this video.

Thank you so much and I will see you the next time..