Global users of selected virtual platforms 2021

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Stacy Jo Dixon,
Dec 12, 2023
Virtual platforms gained a surge of attention in October 2021, when Facebook Inc. rebranded and restructured itself as Meta, a virtual reality company, in a pivot towards the metaverse. As of that month, Facebook was the leading virtual platform with a total of almost three billion users worldwide. In contrast, Web 3.0 virtual worlds had a grand total of 50,000 users around the globe.

Total users of selected virtual platforms worldwide as of October 2021

CharacteristicNumber of users
Web 3.0 virtual worlds 50,000
Non-fungible tokens 412,578
Blockchain gaming 2,364,576
Decentralized finance 3,450,000
Global crypto 220,000,000
Gaming/eSports 250,000,000
Facebook 2,970,000,000
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November 2021

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Worldwide

Survey time period

October 2021

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