"Assets" is a bit of a strong term for meaningless blobs of data. Can you refine your question to make it more specific? What assets would I actually desire to entrust to a website? I can think of none, because trusting a website with assets seems a stupid proposition in the first place.

Oh please. Data has value dependng on how large and powerful a community is.

Votes in an election are data, it’s meaningless unless the outcome of the election results in real world consequences.

Balances are just data, unless people are willing to give goods and services for those balances.

A police officer flashing a badge is data, but be may be in a position to arrest you.

Verifiable Credentials is an entire Web2 standard about data. You dont complain about it … well, Web3 assets are like transferable and mutable Verifiable Credentials. All that certificate validation expiry etc. can be done by the current owner, for instance, instead of third parties. It can achieve self-sovereignty, it can reduce a site of massive liability for which we now reuire surety bonds, and more. Even FINCEN sees the value: https://www.fincen.gov/sites/default/files/2019-05/FinCEN%20...

Correct, it's about the relation to the actual real world output. Please, show me even a single Web3 application that can not be totally replicated using Web2 technologies and also provides more value than merely shifting money from a sucker's pocket into the pockets of an early mover in this artificial deflationary shell game.

It’s embarrassing in 2023 to still be asking this kind of “questions” about web3. There has been so much effort spent, even on this website, to give definitive answers. You have no excuse anymore to promote this cryptophobic nonsense.

oh, what's that? a total incapacity to actually answer the question, instead insisting that the answer is already abundant and easy-to-find? crazy how much people keep saying it's been answered so many times and yet nobody has actually furnished any such answers.

Here are few sir:

https://intercoin.org/applications

Stop embarrassing yourself man.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-O3r2YMWJ4

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32103472

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35473327