To dive directly into the highlights, skip down below to the End of the Year Web3 Highlights header. Otherwise enjoy this upfront read as a nice preface before diving in. As always, none of this is financial advice nor an endorsement of anything mentioned.Upfront Context:Reading last year’s End of the Year Recap made me reflect on how dated any mention of a project’s innovation can become, by the sole fact that most NFT projects die. Then again, even non-nft project posts can become dated.Rec...