Location-based digital token management systems, methods, and apparatus

A computer-implemented method of managing dispensable virtual container units, the method comprising:

• storing, via at least one processor, in at least one database, state information of a set of one or more of virtual container units, wherein each virtual container unit included in the set of virtual container units is associated with at least one digital token and with a current state corresponding to a state from a set of predefined states;
• presenting, via a user device, an augmented reality (AR) virtual object dispenser in an AR session containing at least a subset of the set of virtual container units;
• receiving, via the user device, a first user interaction with the AR virtual object dispenser;
• in response to the first user interaction, updating the state information of a first virtual container unit from a first state to a second state, wherein the first state corresponds to an undispensed state and the second state corresponds to a dispensed and unopened state;
• recording the updated state information on a notarized ledger;
• associating the first virtual container unit with a user account while maintaining the second state, wherein the at least one digital token associated with the first virtual container unit remains unrevealed;
• enabling a transaction involving the first virtual container unit in the second state prior to revealing the at least one digital token contained therein;
• and
• maintaining provenance information of the first virtual container unit on the notarized ledger, the provenance information including the current state and at least a portion of a transaction history.