Virtual Mainstreaming

Consider how much more of your identity today is defined by who you are online, compared to earlier times in the past; and consider that we now have at least a couple generations of humans who have grown up in a world with online games, virtual items, cryptocurrency, esports and other forms of digital existence.

Virtual Mainstreaming describes the increasing societal acceptance of digital identity and virtual property as equivalent to—or potentially surpassing—their physical counterparts in importance.