
Web3
What does Web3 actually mean?
Web3 is a 2014 coinage for an internet run on blockchains — loved, funded, and fought over. Here is what it actually claims, minus the hype.
Web3 covers applications built on public chains: identity systems, decentralized storage, governance organizations and on-chain finance. Each gets measured against the centralized alternative on cost, speed, censorship resistance and failure modes. Written for builders and evaluators deciding whether a use case genuinely benefits from decentralization.
Decentralized identity, storage, governance and finance examined for what they gain and what they cost against the ordinary services they aim to replace.

Web3 is a 2014 coinage for an internet run on blockchains — loved, funded, and fought over. Here is what it actually claims, minus the hype.