The initial vision for the metaverse portrayed it as a standalone, immersive destination. The prevailing idea was that users would don a headset, enter a virtual realm, and no longer need to consider the underlying platform that brought them there. This was the widely promoted promise. However, Decentraland, a pioneering and persistent project in the space of decentralized virtual worlds, appears to be adopting a different approach, potentially diverging from this foundational concept.
