Maybe blockchain is forever, but the dApps die fast. This Halloween 2024, I’m opening the “dApps” I used in 2021. And it is really scary: Domain expired. Deployment suspended. Page not found. Service unavailable. Wait a minute. These were supposed to be dApps — decentralized apps. Apps that don’t depend on centralized entities, apps that are free (as in beer), free (as in speech) and censorship-resistant. Apps that make web3 The New Internet. These apps are all dead. OK, not all, but most of ...

Maybe blockchain is forever, but the dApps die fast. This Halloween 2024, I’m opening the “dApps” I used in 2021. And it is really scary: Domain expired. Deployment suspended. Page not found. Service unavailable. Wait a minute. These were supposed to be dApps — decentralized apps. Apps that don’t depend on centralized entities, apps that are free (as in beer), free (as in speech) and censorship-resistant. Apps that make web3 The New Internet. These apps are all dead. OK, not all, but most of ...