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What is Web3?

Explore the concept of Web3, its distinctions from Web2, and its applications in blockchain-based gaming and development. Understand how Web3 decentralizes access control and payment processing and learn to evaluate when deploying smart contracts on public blockchains is appropriate.

Web3 vs Web2

The term Web3 is commonly used to refer to software that is partly or fully deployed on a public, permissionless blockchain—as opposed to Web2, for traditional server-client web applications. Though it's largely how blockchain software is referred to, Web3 is a marketing term that may give off the wrong impression that it's a new version of the web and ...