Decentraland
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A virtual world for creators, owned by creators.
Decentraland opens Friendzone buildathon pre-registration
Pre-registration is now open for the Friendzone buildathon in Decentraland. The event, promoted alongside @RegenesisLabs, is aimed at creators who want to start building in the platform.
Decentraland relaunches in-world Shop with Credit packs
Decentraland has refreshed its in-client Shop, adding Credit packs with special launch pricing, multi-item cart support, and the ability to shop in-world without leaving the client. Creator-made Wearables and Emotes are available to browse.
- Relaunched Shop supports cart checkout inside the client
- Credit packs offered at intro pricing
- Items include creator-made Wearables and Emotes
The Pixel Arcade holds final trivia game stress test
The Pixel Arcade is hosting a final testing event for a new Trivia game built in Decentraland before its public launch on Wed, Aug 5. The event features live trivia, retro-arcade vibes, and a social hangout space, and open testers are invited to help put the game through its paces.
Decentraland launches its new DAO governance platform using Snapshot off-chain voting
Announced May 24, 2021, the new DAO substituted cost-free, transparent Snapshot voting (via a multisig proxy) for the earlier Aragon-based on-chain voting scheme.
Co-founder Ari Meilich steps down as CEO
Meilich, who served as CEO and Project Lead since founding, stepped back into an advisory role at the organization in April 2020.
Decentraland opens to the public as the first fully decentralized virtual world
The platform officially released (public launch), presenting Genesis City, a map of 90,601 land parcels, alongside its first version DAO.
Decentraland raises ~$26 million in ETH in its initial coin offering; MANA token issued
The project raised over $26 million (86,206 ETH) in the August 2017 ICO, funding development; digital land parcels initially sold for ~$20 and MANA at ~$0.02.
Decentraland founded by Argentine developers Ari Meilich and Esteban Ordano
Development of the Ethereum-based virtual world began in 2015, when the founders posed the question of owning digital space.