The United States Air Force reportedly submitted the filing for a trademark application, giving signs of a initiatives to break into one of crypto’s hottest aspects at the moment – the metaverse. 

Specifically, per details included in a application submitted to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on April 14th, the Department of the Air Force trademarked the word “SpaceVerse”. 

“SpaceVerse” reportedly comes with a particular definition being “a secure digital metaverse that converges terrestrial and space physical and digital realities and provides synthetic and simulated extended-reality (XR) training, testing and operations environments.”

Whether the conneciton between the project and the U.S. Space Force, which as visible on its web page as “organized under” the Air Force, but functions as a “separate and distinct branch of the armed services.”

The trademark application reportedly comes with association with activities throughout the metaverse, which went in the footstep of a few other high-profile establishments, nominally credit card giants Mastercard and American Express, footwear and apparel manufacturer Nike and the New York Stock Exchange.

The several applications included trademarks on the use of logos and branding in a virtual environment, along with the authentication of particular files with nonfungible tokens (NFTs).

A variety of high-profile entities across sectors have reportedly rolled out virtual stores or other environments for users, following Facebook’s announcement in October last year to rebrand to Meta, for gaining benefits from this aspect of crypto. 

In February, U.S. bank JPMorgan reportedly established its presence in the metavers, via introducing a virtual lounge in the blockchain-powered online world Decentraland.

Samsung further released a virtual store modeled after a real-world shop in New York City.