The virtual economy is an economic activity in which humans participate in speculative trading and simply expect the price of a commodity (material or article) to rise without involving any material transformation. Strictly speaking, all virtual economic activities are due to transaction costs or information costs or information asymmetry From the perspective of reducing transaction costs, or information costs, or reducing asymmetric information, virtual economic activities greatly promote their real activities and participate in value manufacturing. The fundamental differences between the "virtual economy" and the "real economy" described in this paragraph are:. ['Virtual.', 'Does not involve the material transformation.', 'Simply expecting commodity prices to rise for profit.', 'Not involved in value manufacturing.']