Fusing Blockchain and AI With Metaverse: A Survey

TLDR

The metaverse, a buzzword attracting industry and academia, integrates real and virtual worlds enabling rich avatar activities and promises a digital world that can transform reality, necessitating interdisciplinary collaboration between academia and industry. This survey explores how blockchain and AI fuse with the metaverse by reviewing state‑of‑the‑art studies across its components, digital currencies, AI applications, and blockchain‑empowered technologies, aiming to help researchers, engineers, and educators build an open, fair, and rational future metaverse. The authors review state‑of‑the‑art studies on blockchain and AI integration across metaverse components, digital currencies, AI applications, and blockchain‑empowered technologies.

Abstract

Metaverse as the latest buzzword has attracted great attention from both industry and academia. Metaverse seamlessly integrates the real world with the virtual world and allows avatars to carry out rich activities including creation, display, entertainment, social networking, and trading. Thus, it is promising to build an exciting digital world and to transform a better physical world through the exploration of the metaverse. In this survey, we dive into the metaverse by discussing how Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence (AI) fuse with it through investigating the state-of-the-art studies across the metaverse components, digital currencies, AI applications in the virtual world, and blockchain-empowered technologies. Further exploitation and interdisciplinary research on the fusion of AI and Blockchain towards metaverse will definitely require collaboration from both academia and industries. We wish that our survey can help researchers, engineers, and educators build an open, fair, and rational future metaverse.