Below are some frequently asked questions people have about Web 3.0. Is Web 3.0 the same thing as the Semantic Web? The Semantic Web is one of Web 3.0's essential pieces because it's what makes the meaning of web content and user commands...

The best way to get ready for Web 3.0 is first to acquire a basic understanding of its core technologies, and then to get experience working with longtime web development languages such as JavaScript, but also Rust, a newer language that is...

Much of Web 3.0 is already here, since blockchain and its applications are increasingly becoming a reality. Still, it took over 10 years to transition from Web 1.0 to Web 2.0, and most observers expect it to take just as long, if not longer...

Web 3.0 has serious potential drawbacks that enterprise leaders need to know about. They include the following: Complexity. Decentralized networks and smart contracts pose significant learning curves and management challenges for IT, not t...

Web 3.0 advantages and disadvantages are hard to state confidently because most Web 3.0 components are new or still on the drawing board -- all of them hyped by partisans who tend to leave out the downsides. Nevertheless, here are some of t...

Web 3.0 use cases are expected to draw heavily on the web's emerging, AI-driven ability to understand users' intentions and preferences and tailor the content it delivers to them based on personal data that the users control. Much of the co...

Several key Web 3.0 features define what this third generation of the web will likely be all about: Decentralized. Unlike the first two generations of the web, where governance and applications were largely centralized, Web 3.0 will delive...

In Web 1.0 and 2.0, HTML defined the layout and delivery of webpages. It will continue to be foundational in Web 3.0, but how it connects to data sources and where those data sources reside will probably be different. Many websites and nea...

If decentralizing the web's architecture delivers even a portion of the benefits promised by Web 3.0 proponents, it could fundamentally alter how people interact on the web and how companies make money from goods and services. Web 2.0 gian...

If it comes to pass, Web 3.0 will be the successor to two previous generations of the web. The first generation, referred to as Web 1.0, was invented in 1989 by Tim Berners-Lee, a British computer scientist who applied the hypertext concep...

Web 3.0 describes the next evolution of the World Wide Web, the user interface that provides access to documents, applications and multimedia on the internet. Web 3.0 is still being developed, so there isn't a universally accepted definiti...

What if the web could conjure up exactly the information you needed in exactly the format you wanted -- before you knew enough to ask for it? It would certainly be a much different, maybe even desirable -- if a little creepy -- internet ex...

In the previous lesson, you learned about Decentralized Finance, and you might have wondered, who manages these protocols and decides their future? Almost all of the major DeFi applications, from Uniswap to Aave to MakerDAO, are governed b...

The technological innovation of crypto has allowed us to create a new financial system which enables users to transact directly with each other and with a whole new ecosystem of products, services, and tools. From lending, borrowing, earnin...

In the advent of digital ownership lesson, we explained how public blockchains like Ethereum made it possible to assign ownership to digital files, and prevent them from being spent twice. While the internet was able to make digital files ...

Unless you printed this page, the words you are reading are digital. You could effortlessly copy them and paste them elsewhere. The combination of the internet (a global network of connected computers) and digitization (the encoding of nea...

We’re very used to leaving things in the custody of others. Custody refers to the protective care or guardianship of something. We routinely leave assets in the custody of banks, investment managers, and exchanges. In the early days, bank...

Digitization is changing the world. As digital technology advances, storing and accessing your personal information becomes easier and more secure. Long gone are the days of storing the paper trail of your life in a bulky filing cabinet; we...

“A wallet is not a wallet” - some Web3 philosopher. To unlock Web3’s potential, you need a crypto wallet. Similar to how browsers serve as your gateway to the internet, wallets serve as your gateway to interacting with crypto apps, also k...

In the year 2008, a group of anonymous technologists, philosophers, and visionaries started a revolution for a more open Internet. Amidst the global financial crisis, they set out to build a new digital economic system of their own that ut...