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Re:Keep the web free, say no to Web3 (2021) by planb on Monday May 23, 2022 @08:35AM (#31478183)
Cardano, Solana, Polkadot, Avalanche, Ropsten, Goerli, Sepolia, Iota, Algorand, Iota...? You're all making fun of me by making up funny words now, don't you?

No, just kidding. To be fair, I wasn't aware that there is SO MUCH going on in the crypto space that I have never heard of. But these (as far as I can see) are different blockchains, not actual sites that a user can use do do useful stuff or access useful information.

That's why I was asking for services - to my understanding, just creating a new coin does not make it "web3".

Re:Keep the web free, say no to Web3 (2021) by 0x64 on Monday May 23, 2022 @08:39AM (#31478224)
These are all chains that support smart-contracts, meaning that services can be built on top of them! I don't know much about the DeFi ecosystem on other chains, but all of them should have at least _something_ going on.
Re:Keep the web free, say no to Web3 (2021) by DonHopkins on Monday May 23, 2022 @08:50AM (#31478330)
None of them have critical mass because none of them are scalable.

So no, actually, they don't have very much going on at all.

It's trivial to solve one single aspect of the much larger problem by deciding to punt on solving other extremely crucial aspects, like scalability, or decentralization.

Re:Keep the web free, say no to Web3 (2021) by eric_cc on Monday May 23, 2022 @11:57AM (#31480671)
Polkadot is actually a layer 0 and does not have smart contracts. Parachains, like Moonbeam, are your layer-1's that provide smart contracts.

Avalanche is also layer 0.