Opinion by: Richard Johnson, Chief Operating Officer of Data Guardians Network
With the ongoing drive to increase web3 adoption, many web3 lovers and organizations continue to call for industries to stay away from web2 processes.
If you are trying to make web3 tools as if a Web2 application or re -define business models to more focused on Web3 Infrastructure, there is a voice group that believes in the web2 destruction to grow the web3.
This view is flawed.
Changing existing systems is impractical or benefiting in short time and risks that limit the growth and potential of the web3.
Getting people beside
Web3 offers solutions to challenges from economic issues to daily activities, but remains complex and scary outside the industry. Almost Two-thirds .
Meanwhile, Oxford University recognized the “Trust Paradox” of Blockchain technology: the contradiction between blockchain’s assurances to eliminate trust concerns is naturally prevented by the public image without trust in technology. Together, these trends show a greater confusion and lack of interaction from the mass market.
This trend fundamentally means that users are likely to “play it safely” in web2 applications rather than the risk of experimenting with the web3. This is the hindrance that slows down the web3 adoption. Innovators may not rely solely on the benefits of the web3 but rather should engage in existing infrastructure if they expect to draw in a wider audience.
A gradual shift
Technology will rarely change overnight. Just as cars share the road with horse-drawn carriages and email machines with the email, web3 adoption will be a gradual process. It is a common misunderstanding that interacting with web2 providers, processes or tools will distract the basic web3 concepts. The fact is, however, that only by combining the two we can speed up the adoption.
Maintaining a web3 isolated only limits its reach and strengthens the public’s doubt. Web2 apps, from websites to mobile platforms, are familiar and trustworthy. Instead of deleting it, developers can take that confidence to bring more users to the web3 space.
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The web3 scaffold
The collaboration between web2 and web3 is happening, mainly driven by web2 providers. Financially, giants such as PayPal, Visa and Major Banks include crypto and blockchain services, which legitimize them for the mass market. Despite financially, the Amazon Web Services launched Web3 Labs, and Google Cloud works in zero-knowledge proof, web3 weaving in traditional offerings.
While web2 applications are driving for a middle ground, web3 developers can and should do the same, the use of the established web2 market to measure faster. As 4G supports the 5G controlling, Web2 processes will help build better web3 apps.
Looks at it in practice
Web3 developers can balance decentralization of comfortable users expected from web2 by prioritizing access, from soft UX to readable people. They should also identify how their products can benefit from web2 organizations.
Often, web3 enthusiasts assume the efficiency of their approach is clear, avoiding the task of explaining why it is better. It is at risk of avoiding users rather than winning them. Demonstrating practical advantages by interacting with web2 offerings will help the bridge the gap between both sectors.
A clear example is the synergy between AI and Blockchain. If each piece of data used to train an AI model is not monitored in the blockchain, the original or data boundary, the source, use and outcomes may be proven immediately, removing misunderstandings.
Initially, a good idea would be to deliver whether it was a web3 application or not.
This value shows – even if it means to engage in web2 sectors – will enhance the legitimacy of the tool and get more attention from the mass market.
Engaged to change
While it may not be comfortable to lean on the web2 to establish a greater confidence in a web3 tool, the benefits are undeniable. Bringing any form of technology to the mass market can generate a range of issues, including daily bugs or scaling challenges. Research from Nielsen shows that test usability testing to real-world users can improve the success rate of a product up to 500%. In this way, getting web2 users to immerse their fingers in web3 applications means a larger product to finish.
Debates about “Web2 compared to Web3” can get attention, but successful companies rarely define themselves by label. These are AI companies, financial institutions, consumer platforms and data companies, using any tools that best serve their market. No customer woke up to want to use “a web3 app”; They want better banking, smarter AI or more useful platforms.
The winners are the silent users of the web3 to solve real problems, not chasing the points of purity.
Working on the web2 expands the user base, creating more opportunities to try, seize and improve. The web3 community has not yet reached an appeal to the mass-market, and achieving it means embracing web2 processes, habits and infrastructure-shaped adoption of technology for decades.
Opinion by: Richard Johnson, Chief Operating Officer of the Data Guardians Network.
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