Web3
See also: web3
English
Proper noun
Web3
- Alternative form of Web 3.0.
- Coordinate term: DWeb
- 2021 November 1, Samantha Hissong, quoting Gordon Goner, “How Four NFT Novices Created a Billion-Dollar Ecosystem of Cartoon Apes”, in Rolling Stone[1], New York, N.Y.: Penske Media Corporation, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 8 October 2026:
- “We want to be a Web3 lifestyle company,” says Goner, who emphasizes that they’re still growing. “I’m a metaverse maximalist at this point. […]
- 2021 December 5, Ephrat Livni, “Welcome to ‘Web3.’ What’s That?”, in The New York Times[2], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 October 2025:
- The biggest investors and industry players are also lobbying in Washington to influence rules that would favor their futuristic view of tokenomics, which can already be seen in some burgeoning communities where web3 is not some abstract concept but a feature of daily life.
- 2021 December 18, “The billionaire battle for the metaverse”, in The Economist[3], London: The Economist Group, →ISSN, →OCLC:
- There are naysayers, too, notably proponents of more distributed technologies that are known as Web3, who argue that blockchains and cryptocurrencies are the next big thing—though as Ben Thompson, a tech pundit, points out, these may find much better use cases in the metaverse than in the real world.
Usage notes
- Sometimes written this way to differentiate it from older visions of Web 3.0, which predate blockchain technology.
