Creating Your Own Metaverse with Bit.Country

About this Episode

This week we’re joined by Bit.Country, a Substrate-based decentralized world with a game-like feel that puts community at the forefront. Bit.Country lets anyone create their own decentralized virtual country and grow their own community.

Jorrin Bruns (Support Engineer, Parity Technologies) talks with members of the Bit.Country team: Shannon Christie, CTO, Justin Pham, CTO, and Ray Lu, CEO about creating customizable experiences in the immersive world of metahuman technology.

Besides tech, they discuss incentivizing users for social good, self-rule, and decentralized governance, designing for interoperability with Substrate, plans to launch as a Polkadot parachain and offering a place for entrepreneurs of all skill sets to create and trade NFTs across blockchains.

Links
Bit.Country’s website
Shannon Christie on Twitter
Justin Pham on Twitter
Ray Lu on Twitter
Industry Connect’s website

Highlights
02:36 What is Bit.Country?
09:51 The Good Neighborhood Protocol
15:20 Interoperability across chains and Bit.Countries
17:37 Choosing Substrate pallets to build Bit.Country
20:25 Two-tier governance on Bit.Country
22:48 Extending the use cases of NFTs
26:44 Bit.Country’s target audience
30:58 First steps to creating your Bit.Country
36:31 Technical stack and skills required to build a Bit.Country
42:05 Community and education programs
45:13 Business opportunities on the platform