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Dominika Duziak
Consulting firms and industry experts have paid close attention to the rise of blockchain technology because of its potential to shake up many different industries. Blockchain has been called the most disruptive technology of our time because of its potential to upend current economic structures.
Ken Huang
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Andrew Prahl
The collection of technologies related to Web3 will have dramatic effects on advertising and public relations research, theory, and practice. NFTs and cryptocurrencies are exemplar technologies that are already being used in innovative marketing efforts. This paper discusses Web3 from an advertising-centric point of view. We predict several effects, including a rise in scarcity appeals (but declining effectiveness), an exponential increase in word-of-mouth marketing, and the fading importance of overlapping groups of consumers. We also provide two case studies to contextualize our predictions. Implications for the future of advertising theory and research are discussed throughout.
Laura Lotti, Nick Houde, Tara Merk
This paper presents a preliminary exploration of the design and deployment of solidarity primitives for web3 social security, based on the insights generated during Other Internet’s Web3 Work Forum held in July 2023. The paper proposes a modular framework to develop solidarity primitives addressing the three dimensions of security for DAO contributors: psychosocial stability, financial stability and regulatory clarity. Additionally, it outlines a range of both on-chain and off-chain mechanisms and improvement proposals specific to each dimension. Lastly, it discusses current challenges to implementation.
Zhengzhen Tan, Alice Guo, N. Arunachalam
The building sector’s decarbonization progress made to date has not been enough to achieve the target of limiting global warming to 1.5°C1. To avert a catastrophic climate disaster, mobilizing capital at the requisite scale and speed is urgently needed. However, as things stand, the investment in building decarbonization is unlikely to increase radically in the next few years. One of the biggest challenges is the financial barrier of decarbonization's demand and supply side. This barrier will lead to significant investment gaps and a subsequent market failure to deliver the net zero carbon emission target. With the rise of the voluntary carbon market and carbon data disclosure mandates, an emerging cohort of Web3 startups is helping corporations track, tokenize, and transact energy or carbon impact. This phenomenon inspired us to revisit monetizing carbon value in commercial real estate to bridge the decarbonization financing barrier. We identified four challenges to make this idea work: 1) measurement and verification, 2) streamlined automation, 3) stakeholder incentive alignment, and 4) fixing the failing carbon market. We examine if Web3 decarbonization solutions can tackle those four challenges in monetizing building decarbonization. By looking into Web3 applications in decarbonization data management, tokenization, and marketplace, we unpack the unique capabilities and potentials of Web3 solutions and how they are different from the status quo to accelerate decarbonization in commercial real estate. The findings are a mixture of "the emperor's new clothes" and " the next big thing ."Web3 startups are immature – most are at or before proof of concept. Nonetheless, Web3 technologies can play a role in providing improvements to carbon data management, aligning stakeholders' incentives, and increasing efficiency in the energy or carbon markets.
Prakhar Sharma, Dakshay Sachdeva, Divyansh Jain, Ashish K. Sharma · 6 authors
Data is the new gold, as correctly stated by many people that data is the most valued thing/entity in today's world. Data is sold at a very high price at various levels across various vendors. For example, the data after the analytics on an e-commerce site can be used by any advertisement company to sell the product to oriented users. Similarly, data can be used in various ways to benefit a company or an individual user. As the demand for such data increases, many sources and companies also emerged that sell their data for money. A company that was entrusted by a user with their data, now will sell their data for their personal monetary benefits and hence become wealthier. Also, many users follow unethical ways like Penetration and other hacking methods to gain access to the database or any datalake. For any user, his personal details and his data are of utmost value that he holds virtually on any platform. The data can be of any form that a user shares, be it his id, passwords, date of birth, interests, skills, his unique id. Personal data in bulk can be used by any company for their good but does not respect cyber laws. Many social media applications clearly state that they can use user data completely without even informing the user about it. MetaShare is a web app, which will use a blockchain wallet to sign in a user so that the user can share his blog while maintaining his anonymity.
Oyinomomo-emi Emmanuel Akpe, Jeffrey Chidera Ogeawuchi, Abraham Ayodeji Abayomi, Oluwademilade Aderemi Agboola
This paper presents a conceptual model for analyzing the adoption of Web3 technologies within competitive gaming ecosystems. Web3, encompassing decentralization, blockchain, NFTs, and smart contracts, offers transformative opportunities for both game developers and players by enabling true digital ownership, new economic incentives, and decentralized governance structures. However, the adoption of Web3 in gaming raises various challenges, including technological readiness, user trust, economic incentives, and the potential for social and ethical concerns. The proposed model integrates these factors and examines their interconnected relationships, providing a framework that can guide the successful integration of Web3 technologies into gaming platforms. The model's application holds significant implications for developers, offering insights into how to align technological advancements with player expectations while creating sustainable, player-driven economies. Additionally, the paper addresses the broader implications of Web3 adoption, exploring the ethical and regulatory considerations that stakeholders must navigate. While the model offers valuable theoretical insights, further empirical research is needed to validate its applicability and refine its components in response to evolving trends in both Web3 technology and the gaming industry.
Rita Melo, Pedro Pinto, António Pinto
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Georgia Osborn, Nathan Alan
Blockchain, or Web3 technology has the potential to disrupt the everyday use of the Internet. The polarised discussion around blockchain technology is notoriously difficult to navigate between the opposing narratives of blockchain evangelists and skeptics. This article focuses on blockchain domain names, a rapidly growing trend using blockchain technology that is currently non-interoperable with the Domain Name System (DNS) and therefore, out of scope of traditional Internet governance. Alternative DNS roots are not new and have previously not become popular due to the lack of supporting browsers. On one view, blockchain domain names are nothing more than another alternative root, insignificant and undeserving of attention. Other narratives regard them as offering an exciting prospect of a decentralised and novel way for managing online naming and addressing. This study explores the burgeoning growth, assesses the challenges of blockchain domain names and provides five recommendations to address them. Although many in traditional Internet communities may be hostile or ignore the blockchain alternative for naming and addressing, we argue that a pragmatic response should be adopted. Even if it is not clear that blockchain domain names solve any problems not currently solved by the DNS, the increase in registrations continues to rise and diverse Internet communities must keep ahead of the trends to understand them and integrate policy implications. Furthermore, the technologies will continue to advance and due to the decentralised nature of the blockchain, developments or changes can be more rapidly implemented than within the DNS.
Ioana Bratu, Michael Davar
This article deals with a new area of legal research at the intersection of jurisdictional issues (the effect of Brussels Recast in the United Kingdom after Brexit), EU law, and the arbitrability of consumer disputes in the context of Web3 transactions. The topic stems from a recent English High Court case, Soleymani v. Nifty Gateway. The authors tease out the main issues that the Court of Appeal will have to grapple with in deciding this case.
Huawei Huang, Qinnan Zhang, Taotao Li, Qinglin Yang · 10 authors
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Olaf Mörk
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Man Zhang, Jing Wang, Danwen Ji
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Felicia Würtenberger
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Urban Vidovič, Vid Keršič, Muhamed Turkanović
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Zewen Wu
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Ken Huang, Yang Wang, Ben Goertzel, Toufi Saliba
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Wei-Meng Lee
In the previous chapter, you learned about creating Web3 decentralized applications (dapps) using the web3.js library. When developing your dapp using a web browser, you can conveniently integrate your app with MetaMask, which holds the various accounts you have on the Ethereum blockchain. When you need to perform a transaction, your dapp will rely on MetaMask to sign the transactions. Behind the scenes, MetaMask connects to a node known as Infura .
Martijn de Vos, Georgy Ishmaev, Johan Pouwelse
The popularity of blockchain technology has bootstrapped many “Web3” applications, e.g., Ethereum and IPFS, that apply distributed ledger technology to store transactions. The amount of transactions generated and stored in such Web3 applications is significant and, in its raw form, usually not searchable by users. Existing Web3 transaction indexing and search engines are predominantly centralized and, therefore, can manipulate search results or censor particular queries. With the proliferation of Web3 transactions and applications, a decentralized and censorship-resistant search primitive is becoming essential. We present DeScan, a decentralized and censorship-resistant indexing and search engine for Web3. Users index their local Web3 transactions using custom rules that output triplets. Generated triplets are bundled in a distributed transaction graph that is searchable by other users. To coordinate search and distribute the storage of the transaction graph over peers in the network, we build upon a Skip Graph (SG) data structure. Since the Skip Graph does not provide any resilience against adversarial peers that censor searches, we propose four modifications to improve its robustness. We implement DeScan and conduct experiments with up to 12 800 peers and 10 million Ethereum transactions. Our experiments show that DeScan with our modifications enabled can tolerate 20% adversarial peers and 35% unresponsive peers without disruption. Moreover, we find that searches in DeScan are usually completed well within a second, even when the network grows. Finally, we show that storage and network costs are evenly distributed amongst peers as the network grows.
Ken Huang, Anita Xie
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Ming‐Hui Wen, C. Derrick Huang, Ying-Chen Chen, I.-Ching Lin
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Sabina Marchetti
‘Web3’ is shorthand for decentralized internet applications built on blockchains. Based on distributed ledger technology, Web3 applications seamlessly encompass value tokenization (the basis of peer-to-peer payments and many other uses) and decentralized management of information, with great emphasis on their aspiration to re-shape the digital economy. To date, Web3 initiatives have been attracting sizeable resources from venture capital firms. Nevertheless, the technological limitations at the basis of decentralized applications prevent a full understanding of the effective potential of Web3. Our work provides an essential overview of the phenomenon, with a focus on the actual incentives it offers to different economic agents as well as to individuals. We pinpoint the key drivers that may contribute to the large-scale establishment of distributed ledger technology as the new paradigm underlying internet applications, and differentiate them from the hype put forward by the crypto-community.