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Text / Meng Yonghui
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Perhaps, it is difficult for us to describe today’s blockchain with the words of the past, because they have long been unable to speak on the same day. However, if we must find a word to describe today’s blockchain, it is undoubtedly the most appropriate to exit. Now, people no longer regard the blockchain as a concept, and people no longer regard the blockchain as a gimmick, but really as a technology. For the blockchain, this can be said to be a rebirth.
When the blockchain starts to exit, we see the metaverse coming out. Different from the single block chain, the metaverse showed a completely different scene from the block chain when it first appeared. Judging from the performance of blockchain players, they have never been able to jump out of the vicious circle of coin or ICO, but the metaverse is different. It opens up a huge imagination space that blockchain is completely unmatched. Perhaps, this is the fundamental reason why the metaverse has received so much attention.
By analyzing the similarities and differences between the blockchain and the metaverse, we may be able to have a more complete understanding of the two. It is also helpful to find a development path that suits both. When the blockchain exits, the ‘retreat’ and the ‘exit’ of the metaverse are more reflected in their essential differences. For every player who aims to make a difference, grasp this A distinction, perhaps, is the only way to truly grasp the coming new future.
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The exit of the blockchain is an inevitable
In fact, the exit of the blockchain is inevitable. Such an inevitability may have been doomed from the first day it was known. When the blockchain was first recognized by people, it was inextricably linked with the issuance of coins or ICOs. Almost all players regard this as the ultimate destination of the blockchain, even the head technology companies represented by Facebook are no exception.
However, practice tells us that just considering the ultimate destination of the blockchain as coin issuance or ICO cannot achieve long-term development. The reason is that virtual assets that are only constructed in a digital world cannot be widely accepted. Only when they are linked to the real economy and based on the real economy can the blockchain issue coins or the future road of ICO. unobstructed.
When the blockchain cannot build a large enough and diversified basic base, but only regards the issuance of coins or ICO as the ultimate goal, in the final analysis, it is just an illusory castle in the air. Waiting for such a base, it is impossible to When supporting its development, collapse is inevitable.
This is the key reason why so many blockchain players we have seen will eventually lose. The inevitability of such a defeat, even those leading technology giants, are also not immune.
Therefore, for the blockchain, its exit refers more to the exit of a development model dominated by coin issuance or ICO. When this kind of exit starts to happen, the blockchain is really returning to the correct development track of the building base.
How to build the foundation of the blockchain? The author believes that the most important point is to use the technological advantages of blockchain as much as possible to transform the inherent elements, processes and links of traditional industries. When traditional industries can develop under the mechanism of blockchain. When the production and living environment in which we live begins to have a profound and thorough connection with the blockchain, when the blockchain replaces the Internet and becomes a new ‘infrastructure’, when the business model of the blockchain When it begins to mature, the blockchain is no longer an existence that just stays on the surface and floats in the air, but truly becomes an existence that can be deeply integrated with the industry.
At this time, it has become an inevitable trend for us to rely on the issuance of blockchain coins or ICO to achieve a closed loop under the blockchain ecosystem. At this time, the blockchain is no longer an existence that only pursues the ultimate pursuit of issuing coins or ICO. At this time, the blockchain is no longer a lonely existence. At this time, the era of blockchain in the true sense can really come.
From such a point of view, the exit of the blockchain that we are seeing now is more of a return to its original position and development track, and a return to the role and function it should have played. superior. For the blockchain, this has to be said to be a rebirth.
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The appearance of the metaverse is a necessity
The characteristics of the blockchain itself determine that it cannot become an existence that can continuously open the imagination in the capital market. Just using the blockchain in the capital market cannot tell a good story. Because both in terms of the technical characteristics of the blockchain and the creation of the blockchain ecosystem, it requires a long and long process.
On the contrary, what capital prefers is the short and fast story, and the more profitable one. So, what we see is that when the blockchain begins to return to calm and objectivity, the metaverse begins to replace it as the new favorite of players.
Whether it is from the perspective of the application scenarios of the metaverse or the imagination of the metaverse, we can see a completely different development context from the blockchain. From the perspective of application scenarios, Metaverse no longer just blindly issues coins or ICOs like blockchain, but pays more attention to the in-depth transformation of scenes in the traditional sense. Through such transformation, Metaverse is What people bring is a new development model that is completely different from the past.
Under the mechanism of the metaverse, the industry can undergo a deep and complete change, and such a change is not presented in a single way of blockchain, but in a way of integrating virtual and real. . It needs to be clear that such a way of integrating virtual and real is not the ultimate goal of subverting the existing system like the blockchain, but the ultimate goal of optimizing, reshaping and rebuilding the existing system.
This makes the metaverse no longer like the blockchain, it just becomes an existence independent of the real operating system, but an existence that can be deeply integrated with the real operating system. Obviously, such a development model of the Metaverse is something that the blockchain cannot have. It is precisely because of this that the appearance of the Metaverse has become a necessity.
From the perspective of the imagination of the metaverse, the basic nature of the blockchain determines that it can bring people a huge imagination. However, such an imagination only stays at the bottom and the most basic level. It is too far away from real business, so far away that people can never touch it. Therefore, if we must make a summary of the imagination of the blockchain, it is illusory and ungrounded, which is undoubtedly the most appropriate.
Compared with the imaginative inaccessibility of the blockchain, the imagination that the metaverse brings to us is palpable. Whether it’s the changes the metaverse brings to our social patterns, or the changes the metaverse brings to our production patterns, we can all touch it, we can all feel it.
Therefore, if we make a summary of the imagination of the metaverse, it is easier for such an imagination to establish a bridge for business, and it is easier to implement it in business. From this perspective, the appearance of the metaverse is also inevitable.
Epilogue
Whether it is the exit of the blockchain or the appearance of the metaverse, it is actually a necessity. In my opinion, these two kinds of inevitability are actually determined by the nature of the blockchain and the metaverse. For the blockchain, its essence is a technology, and it is a relatively low-level and basic foundation. To play its greatest role, it needs to build its own ecosystem as much as possible. , rather than just blindly cashing out through coin issuance or ICO.
For the Metaverse, its essence is a commercial form, and it is a relatively superficial commercial form. Under the business form of the metaverse, people are not looking for a blockchain-style development method that is independent of the existing mechanism, but more of a development method that is deeply integrated with the existing mechanism. To be at its best, it needs to be connected to as much real business as possible.
Recognizing the inevitability of the blockchain and the metaverse, and finding the right development path suitable for both, can truly bring their development into a development track that is truly suitable for them.
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