The Astraverse team is on a mission to build the first virtual world for gamified retail, allowing people to discover and buy limited-edition real-life items as though they were playing a game. Building since 2020 before the metaverse hype cycle began, the (http://Astraverse.xyz) team have received grants from Epic Games & Meta raised a pre-seed round and had 1000+ demo testers of 3 iterations at conferences like Dcentral Austin, Zebu Live London & NFT London. They also managed to attract a 100+ brand waitlist and grow their community to 20k, while being accelerated by the University of Cambridge I4SF, Nvidia Inception Programme, DeFine, Technation, KPMG. Their experience which you can try on their website is built with unreal engine with future plans to integrate with Polygon. The diverse team of 20+ most from design, web3 product, full stack development and gaming backgrounds believe that adding a “metacommerce” backend to these gaming experiences, in a non-skeuomorphic way that is futuristic yet familiar brings a level of physicality to the e-commerce experience that is closer to the experience of shopping in a mall.