Hot Take: we’re not going to see rapid mass adoption of ‘web3’. There will be no iPhone moment.

Rather, web3 principles, ethos and technology will more tightly integrate into web2 experiences, slowly influencing it until all that exists is a ‘web’ somewhere between the web3 vision and web2 present reality.

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This feels right, save for one scenario - catastrophic macro events that force adoption. Bank failures, runaway inflation, intense western world authoritarianism, mega corporate malfeasance etc. 

All things we don’t want to see, but that would flip the switch.

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not many tbh… FC a might be the first real one for me

part of it is that i don’t see things like uniswap and ens as products

That's fair, and I appreciate you sharing a different perspective.

Which products today could not be built on a web2 chassis with a crypto token integration?

i actually disagree tbh… like i get your point, but i think the problem is today’s web3 products are just badly designed. the better ones will win, and they’re quite different from the web2 alternatives

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I agree with your take on an ‘AWS moment’ and think it will likely come after an interim period where we see more hybrid integration based ‘adoption’. Sort of like how many industrial era companies still have hybrid cloud strategies. 

I view an ‘iphone moment’ being more consumer centric w/faster adoption

Interesting view. I do believe web3 will have its iPhone moment, but it won’t be on any chain that is active today or directly consumer facing — rather, it will have its AWS moment, where a critical mass of developers have moved to it due to the benefits of true decentralization.

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