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What is Web3?

Web3 shifts the focus from big tech to individuals who can create and own their digital real estate. If trust can be set by code, then people don’t have to rely on middlemen. They:

Don’t have to trust banks to get paid Don’t have to trust lawyers to draft a contract Don’t have to trust social networks to make a living With trust comes ownership.

By reducing the middleman tax, people can finally own the upside from their work.

Web3 matters because we're building an internet owned by people instead of middlemen.

Web 1, Web2, Web3 Let's compare web3 to web1 and web2:

Web1: Read

Web2: Read, write

Web3: Read, write, own

WHY DECENTRALISED MATTERS?

Web1 (1990-early 2000s) was read-only.

People consumed static web pages that they navigated to from directories like Yahoo. Web1 was built on open protocols like HTML.

Web2 (early 2000s-today) is read and write.

People create and consume content on the social platforms that we're all familiar with.

In web2, tech giants extract value from users by sitting in the middle. Web2 is built on client-server architecture where users are the client, and companies control the servers.

Web3 (2020+) is read, write, and own.

People create, consume, and own the upside of their work through tokens. Web3 is built on peer-to-peer networks of computers that talk to each other without middlemen.

In Web3, ownership and control is decentralized.

Users and builders can own pieces of internet services by owning tokens, both non-fungible (NFTs) and fungible.

Tokens give users property rights: the ability to own a piece of the internet.

What is a token? 
A token is a record of ownership of an asset. Tokens can be fungible or non-fungible:

Fungible tokens are interchangeable (e.g., the US dollar, bitcoin).

Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are unique (e.g., a piece of art).

As an example, let’s look at a game like Fortnite or Roblox: Fungible tokens are the game’s virtual currency (e.g., VBucks, Robux).

Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are the game’s character skins, emotes, and more.

What is Blockchain?

A blockchain is a linked list of transactions stored on a network of computers.

Blockchains are:

1. Decentralized: Transactions are on a network of computers (nodes).

2. Immutable: Transactions cannot be changed once committed.

3. Open: Transactions can be viewed by anyone.

Blockchain Trilemma:

When it comes to blockchains, it's important to remember that there's usually a trade-off between security, decentralization, and scalability:

1. Security:

Ability to defend from bugs and attacks.

2. Decentralization:

Ability to support many nodes.

3. Scalability:

Ability to support a large volume of transactions.

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Users that possess tokens have the potential to own a portion of the internet.

Users are given the option to own anything through NFTs, which may include everything from gaming items to art to code, images, music, text, and whatever else people come up with next.

NFTs are built on top of Ethereum-style blockchains. Ethereum is a user-owned and -operated decentralised global computer.

Anyone can use blockchains, which are unique computers that nobody owns.

A fungible coin called ETH, which is used to reward the system's physical computers, powers Ethereum. For transactions like NFT purchases, ETH serves as the system's native currency as well.

Why Web3 Does Matters?

Users can obtain fungible and non-fungible tokens in a variety of methods. There are methods to earn them as well as buy them.

Famously, Uniswap retrospectively airdropped 15% of its governance tokens to protocol pioneers. These kinds of community awards are becoming typical in web3 as a means to foster goodwill and encourage adoption.

Additionally, engaging in creative and business endeavours will reward you tokens. For instance, selling NFTs generates daily earnings of almost $100 million in ETH.

Tokens encourage network users to cooperate for the sake of the network's expansion and the token's appreciation.

This resolves the fundamental issue with centralised networks, where value is collected by a single corporation, which then finds itself in conflict with its own users and partners.

Prior to web3, consumers and developers had to decide between web1's constrained capabilities and web2's corporate, centralised design.

The greatest features of earlier periods are combined in a new way offered by Web3. This movement is only getting started, so now is a fantastic moment to become involved.