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The Metaverse is not a new concept; nor its use for educational purpose. Despite its considerable attention and recent popularity, largely due to Facebook’s strategic bet, educators have been experimenting with such an environment for a while. Still though, educational activities that are delivered over a Metaverse environment require further exploration to fully understand their full potential, opportunities, and challenges, since such activities differ from traditional on-campus or e-learning education. Nowadays, the area of on-chain education in the Metaverse remains unexplored. In this paper, we are presenting the findings from our attempt to deliver the first of its kind on-chain and in the Metaverse course delivered by the University of Nicosia (UNIC). The course was offered in Fall 2022 as a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) and was attended by 22,500 students. The paper reports interesting observations from …