Digital pets are nothing new: for as long as we’ve been hanging out online, people have been trying to sell us pixelated counterparts of our real-life animals. And now, as the next generation of the internet looms — Web3 — a new crop of startups is winning investment to bring our furry friends into the metaverse.
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