One might say the metaverse is the cryptocurrency of the VR world: exciting and arguably useful for a few while useless and laughably unstable for the majority.

Woah woah woah woah woah. There's nothing wrong with cryptocurrency. Hint if you're worried about the price of cryptocurrency fluctuating, you're doing it wrong. It works fine as currency -- the thing it's supposed to be. If I buy some bitcoin and trade it away in an hour or in the same transaction, I don't care if it's long term stable vs the dollar. True, it is inconvenient for investment that currencies fluctuate at all, but you also need them to do so or there is no point in having more than one.