Minting a Fortune From The Overlooked Metaverse Plays…

Jeff Opdyke (Jeffo)
7 min readNov 9, 2021

I see too many stories these days repeating the same, tired spiel about the best crypto to own if you want exposure to the metaverse. And it’s the same, usual suspects, over and over … and over: Sandbox ($SAND), Decentraland ($MANA), and Enjn ($ENJ).

Yawn.

Don’t get me wrong — all are fine crypto projects. They will be winners in the metaverse, no doubt. I own two-thirds of that trio in my personal portfolio. But recommending those three is like telling an investor the best way to play iPhone growth is to own Apple.

Duh.

What I want as a crypto investor is to own the projects that don’t have the same kind of hype just yet. That’s where greater opportunities exist. As I tell my Millennial son all the time: Buy the underappreciated, be patient, then…

Let. The. Game. Come. To. You.

So, here’s how I’m playing the game in the metaverse these days…

First, make no mistake that the metaverse IS the future. Period. Chatrooms where netizens today send DMs, or post TikTok vids and whatnot, are going to be tomorrow’s 3D virtual-reality spaces (and tomorrow is much, much closer than you imagine). You’re going to meet up with friends in a virtual coffee house that looks just like a real coffee house — though, maybe, set on one of Jupiter’s moons — and with the same velvety, coffee-house jazz wafting through the background (played, no doubt, by Figrin D’an and the Modal Nodes, the…

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Jeff Opdyke (Jeffo)
Jeff Opdyke (Jeffo)

Written by Jeff Opdyke (Jeffo)

Former Wall Street Journal writer living in Prague. Crypto and investing. Editor Global Intelligence Letter. Also on Substack: jeffoalpha.substack.com/

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