Total users of selected virtual platforms worldwide 2021| Statista

Virtual platforms gained a surge of attention in October 2021, when Facebook Inc. rebranded and restructured itself as Meta, a virtual reality company, in a pivot towards the metaverse. As of that month, Facebook was the leading virtual platform with a total of almost three billion users worldwide. In contrast, Web 3.0 virtual worlds had a grand total of 50,000 users around the globe.

Total users of selected virtual platforms worldwide as of October 2021

Characteristic	Number of users
Web 3.0 virtual worlds	50,000
Non-fungible tokens	412,578
Blockchain gaming	2,364,576
Decentralized finance	3,450,000
Global crypto	220,000,000
Gaming/eSports	250,000,000
Facebook	2,970,000,000

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November 2021

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October 2021

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