Web 3.0


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Near Foundation CEO on Developer Grants and Ethereum Competition

The newly appointed CEO of Near Foundation, Marieke Flament, discusses what lies ahead for the Near ecosystem after a momentous year for the protocol. Flament touches on why a decentralized Web 3.0 is beneficial to content creators, Near Foundation’s developer grant program that supports promising projects using the Near protocol, and how the organization plans to co-exist with other chains in the ecosystem like Ethereum.

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Opinion

What Is Web 3? Here’s How Future Polkadot Founder Gavin Wood Explained It in 2014

A classic blog post envisioning a “post-Snowden web” takes on new relevance today.

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Opinion

Web 3.0 Is Too Complicated

For a truly decentralized future, we have to resist the temptations of instant user interface gratification and extremely simple API integrations that depend on data centers.

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Opinion

10 2022 Predictions From PwC’s Henri Arslanian

El Salvador. The metaverse. Web 3 catalysts. Ethereum’s future.

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What Jack Dorsey’s Beef With 'Web 3' Is Really About

The Bitcoin-loving CEO’s feud with VCs is just the latest round of a fight that has been raging for nearly a decade: Bitcoiners vs. “crypto.”

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Opinion

Web 3 and the Metaverse Are Not the Same

Web 3 ideas like NFTs are only part of building the next generation of the internet, argues the host of the “Hello Metaverse” podcast.

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Finance

Figment Reaches Unicorn Status With $110M Series C

The funding round was led by Thoma Bravo, and also included Binance, Mirae Asset, ParaFi Capital, Bitstamp and Franklin Templeton.

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Finance

Reddit Co-Founder Creates $200M Initiative With Polygon for Web 3, Social Media

Polygon will provide the infrastructure for the projects that the initiative backs.

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Finance

Goldman Sachs Says Blockchain Is Key to Metaverse and Web 3 Development

The Wall Street bank sees blockchain as one of the most disruptive technologies since the advent of the internet.

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Opinion

The Future of NFTs Is Fungible

The many NFT communities that have sprung up this year are finding that it’s not so easy to manage a community with unique tokens alone.

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