Bridges across the Chasm to Web 3.0

Web3 inverts the internet’s business models by giving more value and ownership to both creators and consumers. Traditionally, platforms developed online have been driven by advertising and subscriptions. This is because Web2 took a consumer first approach to platforms, protocols and applications with the platforms as intermediaries. Web3 puts value... See more

Web2 platforms coerce user loyalty through network effects and closed data, and exiting a platform leaves creators without access to their audiences or content. Web3 affords the opportunity to build systems that foster user agency and self-determination through true digital ownership, open data, and networks that are built atop open-source software... See more

But many of the web 3.0 advantages are hard to adopt as a large, existing, web 2.0 company. The big ideas: ownership, collaboration, and community are new foundational principles.

Web 3 & When Platform Participants Become Platform Owners

The difference between Web2 and Web3 businesses, is that Web3 businesses are open-sourced. Simply imagine Uber operating openly – anyone who wants to, is able to see all the transactions in its network. There’s no proprietary secret hidden to defend itself from competitors (or even hackers). It’s all up to the community & its

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