The Sandbox
- 37-year old Robert Doyle made $97,344.15 in six months with virtual assets based in Polka City.
- Polka City investors earning money with non-fungible tokens that represent land, businesses and other assets.
- The metaverse world has boomed in part since Facebook’s name change to Meta.
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The metaverse world has grown astronomically over the past few weeks, with people spending millions of dollars worth of virtual land and other types of property, and investors like 37-year old Robert Doyle are already making money out of those assets.
Doyle owns a virtual car-repair shop and a bank in a metaverse that isn’t even fully live yet and he’s made almost $100,000 in six months, as verified by crypto wallets shown to Insider.
Polka City, where Doyle’s virtual property sits, is a multi blockchain metaverse gaming platform that launched in 2021. Players can buy non-fungible tokens that represent virtual taxis, gas stations, billboards and even motorcycles. They then earn weekly interest paid in the platform’s native token.
According to the platform’s roadmap, users already own and trade digital assets. The game itself is due to launch soon. The roadmap describes it as the “GTA of Cryptocurrency”, in a nod to the cult “Grand Theft Auto” series of action games set in a virtual world.
“I do think this could be a billion-dollar game. So if this game gets to a billion-dollar market cap, the price of the token could be, $30, $40, $50 – depending on what happens and these will pay out for quite some time going forward because the game hasn’t even launched yet,” Doyle told Insider.
Doyle has accumulated 111,646 polca, worth about $0.8719 on Friday, having gained almost 500% this year. The bulk of it has come from the car repair shop. Once the game launches, he said will also get money from people using his car repair shop and will get…
