Economic Systems in Metaverse: Basics, State of the Art, and Challenges
Huawei Huang, Qinnan Zhang, Taotao Li, Qinglin Yang, Zhaokang Yin,, Junhao Wu, Zehui Xiong, Jianming Zhu, Jiajing Wu, and Zibin Zheng

TL;DR
This paper provides a comprehensive overview of economic systems in the metaverse, analyzing frameworks, key components, and future challenges to inform development and research in digital economies.
Contribution
It systematically reviews current solutions and architectures, proposing a framework that links digital creation, assets, and trading markets in the metaverse.
Findings
Identifies key components like incentive mechanisms and DeFi activities.
Highlights the importance of cross-platform interoperability.
Discusses future evolution of economic topics in the metaverse.
Abstract
Economic systems play pivotal roles in the metaverse. However, we have not yet found an overview that systematically introduces economic systems for the metaverse. Therefore, we review the state-of-the-art solutions, architectures, and systems related to economic systems. When investigating those state-of-the-art studies, we keep two questions in our mind: (1) what is the framework of economic systems in the context of the metaverse, and (2) what activities would economic systems engage in the metaverse? This article aims to disclose insights into the economic systems that work for both the current and the future metaverse. To have a clear overview of the economic-system framework, we mainly discuss the connections among three fundamental elements in the metaverse, i.e., digital creation, digital assets, and the digital trading market. After that, we elaborate on each topic of the…
Peer Reviews
No public reviews on file for this paper yet. If you reviewed it on a platform where reviews are public (OpenReview, ICLR, NeurIPS, ICML), you can paste yours below so the community can read it here.
Videos
No videos yet. Explain this paper in a talk, walkthrough, or lecture? Add one.
Taxonomy
TopicsEconomic and Technological Innovation · Blockchain Technology Applications and Security · Complex Systems and Time Series Analysis
