Visiting Berlin’s new Metaverse conference

Bottom: Gloryholes and condom vending machines. Above: the Berlinverse. The newly launched two-day crypto conference on Kurfürstenstrasse in Berlin will take place on the third floor of the building that also houses Berlin’s famous erotic shop, LSD.

Young people scurry among neon lights. On the walls: framed pictures. In a small room, some visitors listen to selected lectures about NFTs, Web3 and the Metaverse. “The Sandbox” can be explored on monitors, the largest metaverse on Polygon to date. “We want to bring people closer to the meaning of this digital world,” explains the organizer, Dennis Weidner. The motto: “Play it. experience it.”

Berlinverse wants to create a bridge

Dwindling interest, plummeting user numbers: once heralded as the future of the internet, the Metaverse seems to be becoming more and more of a digital wasteland. But Weidner remains confident about the long-term perspective. For him, Berlin and the Metaverse are a perfect couple, especially in terms of potential for art. “Berlin is a very creative city. We have many artists, DJs, graffiti artists and photographers. But they still don’t understand much about the Metaverse. How do I get in there? How do I do an NFT? How do I open a shop?” That’s what they want to bring closer to them here, on a personal level: “This is the future of Berlinverse.”

One person who wants to make entering the Metaverse easier is David Peng. The trained lawyer founded the company W3bmint at the beginning of the year. They can be used to create NFTs without programming knowledge. “My passion is removing the barriers to entry. I can’t code myself. I can’t even read an Excel spreadsheet,” says the trained lawyer and laughs. “We mainly work with smaller fashion companies,” says the Canadian, who now lives in Berlin. So far, it is still too expensive for many to produce NFTs because of the high costs for programmers.

Conquer the real estate market with NFTs

Visit to the Metropoly stand, the motto here too: Remove barriers. And in the real estate market. “It takes a lot of money to get your foot in the door in this industry,” explains Lisa Mark, a former realtor herself. Metropoly wants to change that. Users buy part of the property in the form of an NFT and receive passive income. Starting Price: $100. The project has just started its beta, including presale.