As people are spending increasingly more time in virtual worlds (also known as the metaverse), Janine Yorio, managing dir...
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Overview
Realm Metaverse Real Estate's ("Realm") business objective and strategy is to achieve attractive risk-adjusted returns primarily through the acquisition, management, development and sale of digital parcels in blockchain-based metaverses in the form of non-fungible tokens (“NFTs”).
Realm is focused on acquiring, managing, developing, and selling digital parcels across various crypto-based metaverses. By employing a unique combination of experience and knowledge in the real estate, development and digital asset management industries, Realm will seek to generate an attractive return on investment, while contributing to the growth, prosperity, and communities in these virtual worlds.
Metaverse overview
What is the Metaverse?
The metaverse is an alternate digital reality where people socialize, work, play, and transact. Metaverses built on the blockchain are self-contained virtual cities, games, and economies that simulate real-world interactions. The metaverse bridges the gap between the digital and physical worlds, offering new, exciting methods of interaction. Blockchain-based metaverses distribute ownership and value through native cryptocurrency tokens to their users, players, and land-owners.
Digital Real Estate Investing
Investment in digital real estate occurs through the purchase and exchange of non-fungible tokens (or NFTs), a special type of cryptographic token which represents something unique; non-fungible tokens are thus not mutually interchangeable. This is in contrast to cryptocurrencies like bitcoin, and many network or utility tokens that are fungible in nature. Each NFT is distinct or unique, it is indivisible and it is not interchangeable.
Strategy
Realm invests in virtual worlds, or metaverses, built on the blockchain. Our asset management strategy is inspired by traditional real estate investment strategies. We look to acquire, manage, and develop virtual real estate, following three core tenets below.
We intend to acquire a portfolio of diversified digital assets across a variety of crypto-based virtual worlds. When deciding whether to acquire a digital asset, we generally analyze our potential purchase prices compared to recent sales, the prospect that the digital asset’s location with respect to potential neighbors may add value, and the digital asset’s potential use cases and development viability.
We do not intend to actively trade (or “flip”) the digital parcels it acquires. Instead, we generally employ a “buy and hold” strategy, and may sell or dispose of assets when when favorable opportunities present themselves.
Portfolio
As of November 2, 2021, Realm has made investments into 13 different metaverses.
The Sandbox - The Sandbox is a virtual Metaverse where players can play, build, own, and monetize their virtual experiences. This platform seeks to empower artists, creators, and players to build what they have always envisioned, providing the means to unleash their creativity. Using blockchain technology and NFTs, users can build the virtual economy of the future in their created spaces.
Decentraland - Decentraland is a virtual reality platform powered by the Ethereum blockchain. Users can create, experience, and monetize content and applications. Land in Decentraland is permanently owned by the community, giving them full control over their creations. Users claim ownership of virtual land on a blockchain-based ledger of parcels. Landowners control what content is published to their portion of land, which is identified by a set of cartesian coordinates (x,y). Contents can range from static 3D scenes to interactive systems such as games.
CryptoVoxels - Cryptovoxels is a virtual world built on the ethereum block chain. The world consists of a city called Origin City, which has “streets” that are owned by The Corporation, and “parcels” that are owned by individual people. If you have an ethereum wallet, you can buy a parcel. This world functions primarily as a display for users’ NFTs and art.
Somnium Space - Somnium Space is an open, social & persistent Virtual Reality platform built on the Blockchain. In this platform, one can buy land, build or import NFTs and instantly use or monetize them. The universe is shaped entirely by players. Somnium seeks to build out their entire platform primarily using VR technology.
Axie Infinity - In Axie Infinity, players buy, breed, and pit monsters called Axies against each other to win in-game currency—called small love potions—that can be exchanged for fiat cash ($). This business model is known as play-to-earn, where players earn crypto rewards for playing a game. Axie Infinity has brought the play-to-earn model to the masses, and is currently in the process of upgrading their offering with a virtual land platform, more commonly referred to as a metaverse.
Embersword - Embersword is an ambitious MMORPG style game with a play-to-earn component built on the blockchain that seeks to be chain agnostic. The game is set to be partially owned and maintained by its player base using in-game incentives like land ownership, stat upgrades, and guilds. The game seeks to create a loyal player base of experienced fantasy RPG fanatics while also burgeoning a healthy economy within its ecosystem.
DeHorizon - DeHorizon’s metaverse, DeVerse, is a game that will let you explore a vast world built on the blockchain with the ability to participate in many different activities. Players will get to mint unique NFT monsters, embark on quests, do battle with each other, and even play their own version of Quidditch. DeHorizon also seeks to provide a play-to-earn component in game.
Bit.Country - Bit.Country enables everyone to start their own metaverse for their people with the 3D world, NFTs, play-to-earn & build communities to earn, and takes community engagement to a new dimension on web3.0. In Bit.Country, everyone can start their own metaverse for their fans, followers, and group members! Bit.Country enables users to truly own their community and bring in the power of a tokenized economy! Create a virtual world with NFTs for your Telegram group, Wechat group, Twitter followers, or Facebook group.
HighStreet - Highstreet bridges the physical and digital worlds with a brand new MMORPG. Built natively with Unity and Blockchain technology, Highstreet provides real products with additional utilities by turning them into in-game items. With a merchant portal developed on Metaplex, both established and new brands can leverage Highstreet and seamlessly establish virtual storefronts both on web3 and within the metaverse.
Nifty Island - Nifty Island is a new open-ended social metaverse and game hub developed by Nyft Studio expected to launch by the end of this year. It aims to create a community-owned and driven metaverse where digital assets can be brought together in a single realm. On joining Nifty Island, every new citizen is given their separate island and a customizable avatar. They can play games, display their NFT collections, trade NFTs, and get incentives for playing and contributing content to the gameverse.
Cradles - Cradles: Origin Of Species begins in prehistoric times. A blockchain game, Cradles allows real-world time and space rules to mesh in a game for the first time with the introduction of the time and entropy system. Cradles adopts a dual token economic model that combines traditional money with a cryptocurrency design. Crystals, the in-game currency, has an inflation rate controlled by smart contracts. Cradles proposes a new gaming concept: “Play to Enjoy, Enjoy to Earn.”
Treeverse - Treeverse is an open-world, fantasy and sci-fi based MMORPG with an action-packed MOBA-style combat system. Slay beasts, forge mighty weapons, lure the biggest fish, form guilds, defeat dungeons and explore the deep lore. The living world of Treeverse awaits those bold enough to conquer it.
Note, one investment is currently confidential and cannot be disclosed.
Developments
Fantasy Islands
In August 2021, we architected the first-of-its-kind metaverse real estate NFT development, Fantasy Islands. The sale sold out within 24 hours. The Fantasy Islands development is a luxury, master-planned community in The Sandbox, anchored by 100 unique islands with adjacent land parcels that we are developing into community spaces. Fantasy Island owners will own a land parcel (in the form of an NFT) as well as a unique, 3D villa on top that will allow for an interactive and gamified experience, also in the form of an NFT.
Below is a walk through of one of the villas as well as some renderings of the villa varieties.
Metajuku
Launched in June 2021, Metajuku is a shopping district in Decentraland developed by Republic Realm, with stores leased and operated by third-party digital wearables brands.
Republic Trading Floor
A central investment hub in Decentraland where investors can exchange ideas and learn about new offerings, modeled after the New York Stock Exchange and the Louvre Pyramid.
Republic Realm HQ
A corporate HQ and conference center in the metaverse, designed as a meeting and gathering space for Republic Realm-related events.
Realm Retreat
A social gathering space in Decentraland to meet and spend time with friends featuring an NFT art gallery, a plunge pool, a rooftop lounge and a conference center.
Market opportunity
In 2020, the total annual transaction volume for NFTs was $338M. 2021 saw an explosion of growth nearly quadrupling to $1.2B in transaction volume in Q1 alone, followed by $1.3B in Q2 2021 and a blockbusting $10.7B in Q3 2021, according to data from DappRadar. Virtual real estate and metaverse assets have seen rapid growth as well. Over the past two quarters, Q2 and Q3 2021, there has been over $107M in transaction volume (data from nonfungible.com). As displayed in the charts below, there is a steep upward trend in sales volume, price, and number of transactions each week for metaverse real estate assets.
The metaverse opportunity is enormous. Pitchbook research predicts that the market will be valued in the hundreds of billions of dollars by 2022, and will cross the trillion dollar threshold by 2030.
Source: nonfungible.com.
Source: nonfungible.com.
Source: nonfungible.com.
Metaverse Market Size Forecast
Source: Pitchbook.com, November 11, 2021.
Valuation
As of November 2, 2021, Realm's return on invested capital since inception is 145.26%. The Net Asset Value ("NAV") per share of common stock was $205.57 net of fees.
The table below provides a summary of our investments in metaverse assets as of November 2, 2021.
Note: Past performance is not indicative of future results.
Net Asset Value ("NAV") for our common stock is calculated using a process that reflects, (1) the estimated values of each of our portfolio assets and investments, including related liabilities, based upon (i) independent third-party valuation reports which primarily rely on comparable sales information, and (ii) for portfolio assets that have development or value add plans, progress along such development or value add plan and (2) the price of liquid assets for which third-party market quotes are available, such as coinmarketcap.com or another reputable third-party pricing source.
Notes to Valuation of Metaverse Assets:
- Decentraland: current value includes adjustment in value equal to costs incurred related to the developments of certain parcels.
- Sandbox: current value includes adjustment in value to reflect the Company’s ownership of 10 Fantasy Islands at an estimated value of 66.6 ETH each which was based on recent sales.
* Valuations based on acquisition price or publicly available pricing information from coinmarketcap.com
Team
Republic Realm is one of the most active investors in and developers of the metaverse real estate ecosystem. We invest in, manage, and develop assets including NFTs, virtual real estate, metaverse platforms, gaming, and infrastructure.
Republic Realm has holdings in 13 metaverse platforms, has developed six metaverse real estate projects, and owns over 2,000 NFTs. Republic Realm is a placemaker in the metaverse. In addition to The Museum Collection, which is a digital culture museum for NFTs, we also developed Metajuku, the first metaverse shopping mall with retail tenants and leases; built Fantasy Islands, a luxury, master-planned real estate development in the Sandbox metaverse; and established Republic Realm Academy, the first online university set in the metaverse and driven completely by tuition NFTs.
Republic Realm was named by CB Insights as one of the top companies building and contributing to the growth of the metaverse.
Source: CBInsights.com - Metaverse Market Map Sept 21, 2021.
Republic Realm is based in the US and backed by Galaxy Interactive, Animoca Brands, Dragonfly Capital, NGC Ventures, Polygon, Avalanche, Valor Equity Partners, Everblue and executives from GoldenTree.
Management Fees
Realm will pay the Manager a base management fee equal to 0.5%, per fiscal quarter, of the aggregate contributed capital of the common shareholders.
In addition, Realm will pay the Manager, annually, an incentive management fee equal to twenty five percent (25%) of the amount, if any, by which (a) the Company’s net asset value (“NAV”), as calculated as of the end of that fiscal year, exceeds (b) NAV, as calculated as of the start of that fiscal year. The Incentive Fee will be payable in common shares.
Offering
We are currently Testing the Waters for a potential Regulation A+ offering for our common shares, which as of November 2, 2021 were valued at $205.57 per share. We anticipate that the offering would seek to raise up to $75,000,000 with a minimum investment of $1,000. The price per share will be updated prior to the offering based on a more recent net asset value per share.
Disclaimers
*Past performance is no guarantee of future results
Realm Metaverse Real Estate Inc. is “testing the waters” to gauge market demand from potential investors for a potential offering under Tier II of Regulation A of the Securities Act. No money or other consideration is being solicited, and if sent in response, it will not be accepted. No sales of securities will be made or commitment to purchase accepted until qualification of an offering circular by the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") and approval of any other required government or regulatory agency. An indication of interest made by a prospective investor is non-binding and involves no obligation or commitment of any kind. Any offer to buy securities may be withdrawn or revoked, without obligation or commitment of any kind, at any time before notice of its acceptance given after the qualification date. No offer to buy securities can be accepted and no part of the purchase price can be received without an offering circular that has been qualified by the SEC, which we urge prospective investors to read carefully at such time.
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