Inside the metaverse: analysis of the state of the art and development of a new usage approach based on quality and ethics

The paper analyses, starting from the first coining of the term, the state of the art related to the technologies and possible approaches of the metaverse, with particular focus on the potentialities expressed by blockchain-based metaverses and their criticalities. The paper then discusses in detail the concept of tokens, in order to explain the dynamics of regulation of ownership and transactions within the metaverse, up to the exposition of the revolutionary concept of ethical metaverse, object of industrial patent, based on the concepts of quality and social responsibility in a Benefit Impact (BIMPACT) Assessment perspective.