Cryptocurrency app OKX acquires substantial landholding in Everdome metaverse

Cryptocurrency app OKX has announced that it has acquired a substantial landholding in Everdome, the hyper-realistic metaverse.

OKX will bring its partners into the metaverse to design unique cultural programmes and new experiences. The business will also create interactive experiences to enable Everdome attendees learn more about cryptocurrency and the web3 ecosystem as a whole. To celebrate its foray into the metaverse, it will also be giving five plots of land in the Everdome metaverse away to fans.

?Today, we’re excited to announce that OKX has acquired a substantial landholding in Everdome, marking their first foray into the #metaverse.

As one of our premier partners, we’re excited to welcome OKX to Everdome.??#TheJourneyHasBegun https://t.co/Jk4ZIISouU pic.twitter.com/d0qCxn85Aa

— Everdome (@Everdome_io) May 30, 2022

As a tier-1 crypto exchange with $1.5bn average daily trading volume, OKX has set its sights on expanding its top-tier status in Asia and globally. Most recently, it announced partnerships with Manchester City Football Club, the McLaren F1 Racing Team and F1 fan favourite Daniel Ricciardo to supercharge the fan experience and educate fans so that they can invest responsibly.

Haider Rafique, global CMO, OKX commented: “OKX is excited to extend Everdome as a key partner and is thrilled to be one of the first and largest landowners in the Everdome metaverse. Everdome will enable OKX to create immersive experiences within their metaverse, ones that are yet to be seen in such a partnership. We ultimately want to show the world what living on Mars could look like and ways we would transact and trade on the red planet.”

Rob Gryn, CEO and founder of Everdome and Metahero, aded: “The collaboration between Everdome and OKX will enable us to elevate the metaverse and web3 journey even further, delivering deeply immersive experiences that leverage photorealistic graphics to blur the boundaries between the connected and real worlds.”

Meanwhile, OKX is a place where people can trade, invest, and hold thousands of cryptos, digital assets and collectables. In 2021, the total trading volume on the platform increased more than 700 per cent, while the number of trades executed on the platform increased by 480 per cent.

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