2023 年预测：Web3 宠物之年

虚拟宠物已经存在了几十年，但有了 NFT，我们今年将拥有自己的在线猫和狗，而不仅仅是和它们一起玩，Leah Callon-Butler 说。

2023 is the year of Web3 pets. Virtual pets have been around for decades, but with NFTs, we finally get to own our online cats and dogs this year, not just play with them, says Leah Callon-Butler.

2023 年是 Web3 宠物年。虚拟宠物已经存在了几十年，但有了 NFT，我们今年终于可以拥有我们的在线猫和狗，而不仅仅是和它们一起玩，Leah Callon-Butler 说。

Crouched at the ocean’s edge, her skeletal figure was a rude juxtaposition against the idyllic scenery of Seven Commandos Beach, a tiny island skirting the west Philippine archipelago. Once a tourist hotspot with hundreds of visitors dropping delicious pizza crusts and burger scraps daily, none had stepped foot there since the country closed over a year earlier.

她蹲在海边，瘦骨嶙峋的身影与七突击队海滩的田园风光形成了粗鲁的对比，七突击队海滩是菲律宾西部群岛边缘的一座小岛。曾经是一个旅游热点，每天都有数百名游客留下美味的披萨饼皮和汉堡碎片，但自从一年多前国家关闭以来，没有人踏足那里。

Just a 10-minute boat ride from the place where my boyfriend and I had bunkered amid the pandemic, we had headed there for an afternoon for snorkeling and sunsets only to find a hungry old dog instead. Kneeling to meet her, I traced my fingers over her dirty, straw-like fur and nubby ribs. The animal was starving to death, but she somehow wagged her tail, and in that moment, we knew we weren’t leaving that island without her and her two babies in tow.

距离我和男朋友在疫情期间避难的地方只有 10 分钟的船程，我们花了一个下午去那里浮潜和日落，却发现了一只饥饿的老狗。我跪下来迎接她，用手指抚摸着她肮脏、稻草般的皮毛和结节的肋骨。那只动物快要饿死了，但她不知何故摇起了尾巴，在那一刻，我们知道如果没有她和她的两个孩子，我们就不会离开那个岛。

Leah Callon-Butler, a CoinDesk columnist, is the Director of Emfarsis, a consulting firm based in Southeast Asia that represents play-to-earn sector clients including Animoca Brands, Yield Guild Games, Blockchain Game Alliance and others. This piece is part of CoinDesk's Crypto 2023 package.

CoinDesk 专栏作家 Leah Callon-Butler 是 Emfarsis 的总监，Emfarsis 是一家总部位于东南亚的咨询公司，代表包括 Animoca Brands、Yield Guild Games、Blockchain Game Alliance 等在内的玩赚钱行业客户。本文是 CoinDesk Crypto 2023 包的一部分。

Newfound friends

新认识的朋友

Over the next year, we treated them as our own. We fed them only the best food, got them the veterinary attention they needed and spoiled them silly with squeaky toys and bones from the butcher and all the things that doggy dreams are made of. The whole exercise cost a bomb, but we didn’t care. It was high-COVID-19 and they provided us with a much-needed respite from lockdown life. Between tummy rubs, new tricks and those little things they do to let you know how much they love you, the time we spent with them was priceless.

接下来的一年里，我们把他们当作自己的人一样对待。我们只给它们喂最好的食物，让它们得到所需的兽医护理，并用吱吱作响的玩具和屠夫的骨头以及所有狗狗梦想的东西来宠坏它们。整个演习花费了一大笔钱，但我们不在乎。当时正值 COVID-19 高发期，他们为我们提供了从封锁生活中急需的喘息机会。在抚摸肚子、新把戏以及他们为了让你知道他们有多爱你而做的小事之间，我们和他们一起度过的时间是无价的。

It was always the plan to get them adopted. While we would have preferred to keep them, sadly, pet ownership doesn't gel well with a career that calls for constant global travel; I’m sure crypto people can relate. And now, with borders open, we are rarely at home. So, of course, I’m grateful that we were able to find forever homes for our rescue dogs, but saying goodbye was immensely difficult, and now there’s a giant gaping hole in my life where my pets used to be. Which may offer a clue about why I’ve become increasingly obsessed with my Crypto Unicorns.

让他们被收养一直是我们的计划。虽然我们更愿意养着它们，但遗憾的是，养宠物与需要经常环球旅行的职业并不一致。我相信加密货币的人都能理解。现在，随着边境开放，我们很少在家。所以，当然，我很感激我们能够为我们的救援犬找到永远的家，但说再见是非常困难的，现在我的生活中出现了一个巨大的空洞，我的宠物曾经在那里。这可能为我为什么越来越迷恋我的加密独角兽提供了线索。

Digital unicorns

数字独角兽

Built on Polygon, Crypto Unicorns is a farming game of which I was first a player, and then later, an investor and adviser. I don’t know how many people care to hear my stories of farming nail seeds and picking up rainbow poop – but I tell them anyway.

《Crypto Unicorns》是一款基于 Polygon 构建的农业游戏，我首先是其中的玩家，后来成为投资者和顾问。我不知道有多少人愿意听我种植指甲种子和拾取彩虹粪便的故事 - 但无论如何我都会告诉他们。

Every chance I get, I’m whipping out my phone to bring up OpenSea to show off my collection of these adorable NFT (non-fungible token) pets. By now, I’ve collected way too many unicorns to remember each one by name, but I have my favorites. Like Pinstripe Atticus, a baby Double Mythic that I bred all by myself. In the game, they do the cutest things; like yesterday, Minty Raja was licking his crotch with his leg over his head, just like a cat. I’d never seen him do that before; developers must have pushed an update. I rushed to open QuickTime so that I could capture the precious moment, but I wasn’t quick enough.

每次有机会，我都会拿出手机打开 OpenSea，展示我收藏的这些可爱的 NFT（不可替代代币）宠物。到目前为止，我已经收集了太多的独角兽，无法记住每一个的名字，但我有我最喜欢的。就像细条纹阿迪克斯（Pinstripe Atticus）一样，它是我自己培育的双神话宝宝。在游戏中，他们做着最可爱的事情；和昨天一样，Minty Raja 将腿举过头来舔胯部，就像一只猫一样。我以前从未见过他这样做；开发者肯定已经推送了更新。我赶紧打开 QuickTime，以便捕捉到这珍贵的瞬间，但我的速度不够快。

Read more: It’s Been a Year Since NFTs Exploded. Where Are We Headed?

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Back to the 1990s

回到20世纪90年代

Digital pets are obviously not new. Released in 1995 by video-game developer P.F. Magic, Petz was the world’s first. I got the PC game from Santa for Christmas that year and spent much of 1996 utterly petrified that my Chihuahua might run away if I didn’t give it enough attention. Then came Tamagotchi, and while classroom teachers were pushed to the limits of their patience with the beep-beep-beeping that kept kids hooked to their little egg device, others saw the benefit in learning about the responsibility that goes with caring for a living creature.

数字宠物显然并不新鲜。 Petz 于 1995 年由视频游戏开发商 PF Magic 发布，是世界上第一款游戏。那年圣诞节，我从圣诞老人那里得到了这款电脑游戏，1996 年的大部分时间里，我都非常害怕，如果我不给予它足够的关注，我的吉娃娃可能会逃跑。然后是电子鸡，当课堂老师被孩子们对他们的小鸡蛋装置迷住的嘟嘟嘟的声音逼到了耐心的极限时，其他人看到了学习照顾生物的责任的好处。

Starting out simple, later versions of these games allowed customization, training and breeding. With the advent of the internet, it was also possible to socialize virtual pets with other virtual pets and their meatspace owners. Massive online communities formed, run mostly by women, and they initiated all sorts of events external to the game, from art competitions to pet shows.

这些游戏从简单开始，后来的版本允许定制、训练和繁殖。随着互联网的出现，虚拟宠物也可以与其他虚拟宠物及其肉空间所有者进行社交。大量的在线社区形成了，主要由女性运营，她们发起了游戏之外的各种活动，从艺术比赛到宠物表演。

Recalling the reason about why they felt such a deep connection with their pixelated pets, countless articles, tributes and forum posts cite “a sense of ownership.” But this ownership was

回顾为什么他们与像素化宠物有如此深厚的联系，无数文章、致敬和论坛帖子都引用了“主人翁意识”。但这种所有权是