The pandemic has accelerated the creation and expansion of digital identities as lockdowns and restrictions forced social interaction to take place online. The development of the metaverse represents the next stage of this digitalisation trajectory. Interest from investors and global markets reveals that the metaverse is by no means just an experiment for small-scale players, but has become a landscape for the exploration of the next stage of development for society, technology, legal systems, and the arts.

The emergence of  technology like crypto, blockchain, non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and the metaverse has already attracted attention from investors, but understanding where the opportunities will be found is not straightforward.  Financial analysts have predicted that the total addressable market for the metaverse economy could grow to between $8 trillion and $13 trillion by 2030 with five billion users worldwide. Even those investors who remain sceptical about NFTs cannot ignore the potential value  of the broader economy centred around the development of the metaverse.

This webinar hosted by the Financial Times in partnership with Invesco delved into the range of possible opportunities for investors created by the ecosystem which is being developed to support the creation of the metaverse. 

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