Decentraland’s MANA Jumps 80% as Facebook Rebrand Fuels Metaverse Bets

Nystrom explains that he expects Meta to build “moats” around the metaverse, creating digital walled gardens, so that the holding company and its family of networks (for example, Facebook) have the ability to monetize. Digital worlds like Sandbox and Decentraland, by contrast, will allow developers and gamers to monetize themselves.