NextEarth (nextearth.io) is a virtual world mapped onto Earth, with overlaid virtual plots of virtual real estate available to purchase as NFTs.
Users can buy or sell properties and create opportunities to monetize their virtual land in the Metaverse.
Next Earth is the first true land ownership platform in the metaverse, allowing users to sell, stake, and develop NFT-based land tiles mapped to the Earth’s surface. With land ownership comes the opportunity to build, collaborate, and turn your land into something more than the sum of its parts.
Next Earth aims to be the ultimate platform as a service (PAAS) for individuals and businesses at every level to enter the Metaverse. Whether you’re an individual investor, a creator, a start-up, or even a legacy business looking to expand digitally, we provide the infrastructure you need to bring your vision to life.
On Next Earth web page (nextearth.io) it is possible to connect using either a Username/Password or Digital Wallet connection mechanism.
Upon login to the NextEarth site, the following landing page is presented which provides a set of user controls and administration functions, and it is from here that you can search (usually by place name but a Latitude/Longitude mode is also supported) the world to see if the virtual land your interested in is available or has been purchased by someone else.
The core building block of the Next Earth Ecosystem is the land tile which is an ERC721 NFT. Each tile is mapped to a square of land on the original Earth. For obvious reasons, land tiles that contain notable landmarks command higher attention and therefore higher prices than normal.
Each Next Earth Land tile is a 10×10 m NFT-based replica of a square on Earth.
Next Earth has three types of Land tiles, based on the real-world contents of the tile: water, urban, and non-urban. Land tiles of all types can also include different attributes based on real-world factors such as elevation, biome, etc.
Urban and Non-urban tiles also contain resources but are much more flexible. They can be used to build structures in the metaverse. This is where businesses in the Next Earth ecosystem can set up shop and create all kinds of unique experiences for their customers.
The whole world is set up in grids, with parcels of land (10m × 10m) that can be bought (currently using MATIC Cryptocurrency) with the purpose of either trading the land or building different projects.
There are 3 types of land. Urban, Non-urban, and Water. Urban can be used to build projects onto them and will produce UNITS and will give you the possibility to stake your NXTT crypto token. The lands value differs from country to country and its value raises over time so potentially the earlier you buy it, the better price you can purchase it at. Next Earth offers the smallest land plots which allows for the most precise mapping to existing buildings.
They also have a marketplace available for land sales so you can trade them if you find the buyer.