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Vault Hill is building a human-centric metaverse. What about it? | TechCabal

In 2017, Nigeria's Jimi Daodu bought plots of virtual lands for $200, and sold them for $10,000 last year. So, he decided to build his own metaverse company, Vault Hill, a blockchain-based metaverse that wants to enhance the way humans do things in the real world.

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