Fusing Blockchain and AI With Metaverse: A Survey

• Published in: IEEE open journal of the Computer Society Vol. 3; pp. 122 - 136
• Main Authors: Yang, Qinglin, Zhao, Yetong, Huang, Huawei, Xiong, Zehui, Kang, Jiawen, Zheng, Zibin
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York IEEE 2022; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Artificial intelligence; Avatars; Blockchain; Blockchains; Cryptography; Currencies; Digital currencies; digital economy; Economics; economy system; Games; Interdisciplinary studies; Metaverse; State-of-the-art reviews
• ISSN: 2644-1268; 2644-1268
• DOI: 10.1109/OJCS.2022.3188249

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.