The year is 2025. It was more than 16 years that the White Bitcoin Paper has been published and 10 years since the launch of Ethereum, and the programmable intelligent contract that accompanied it. With billions of dollars invested in industry, and tens of thousands of developers contributing to thousands of applications, primitive and protocols, there would surely be sets of web3 tools in labor for enlargement To expand adoption?
Unfortunately, the answer is a “no.” Resounding
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However, the sets of crucial tools that made technology easy and pleasant to use quickly saw the light of day in the first days of the Internet. It is difficult to identify the exact year that the web has become great enough to start having an impact on people’s lives, but I will suggest that this happened in the late 1990s. In 1995, AOL had crossed the 3 million users and yahoo! had just launched as a second -hander -default gateway to the web. Google was founded three years later and the basic search became a functionality that opened the door to new users around 1999.
The web2 era, from the beginning of the 2000s, was dominated by tools that are easy to use and focused on the model to bring a large user base to this revolution. In less than a year, Amazon Marketplace (2000) brought a turnkey electronic commerce solution to the market. Less than five years after Google wrote its first line of code, WordPress (2003), MySpace (2003) and Facebook (2004) already allowing people to share their own profiles and personal stories on the web.
Is it the wild success of the Internet that encouraged several companies to quickly offer easy-to-use and less technical tools to extend the range of the industry? Or was it the existence of these best user experiences themselves that allowed the industry to skyrocket? Probably a bit of both.
Nevertheless, we are here in 2025 and the number of web 3 platforms that resemble those who have helped stimulate the rise of the Internet are very rare. The majority of projects or protocols that are online are explicitly targeted to developers or other Hardcore cryptographic natives. An industry that continuously suggests that it wants to aggressively extend its scope without really creating tools for a wider user base?
We must understand the incentives. Web3 participants are often encouraged, through tokens, to get involved very early in a given project, whatever its use. Priority is often given to projects with solid social media monitoring that may well respond to a launch of a token. But unless this first version of the product branches a critical hole, users are rarely encouraged to continue working with it over longer periods.
In fact, it’s actually worse than that. Many participants in crypto-law are often encouraged To go to the new operation in the first step in vogue. In other words, ease of use and long -term adoption are not crucial for “success” in web3, so it is not surprising that they are frequently neglected.
For web3 going beyond being eternally “early” and parallel to the explosive growth of web2, we must re-concentize our attention to the tools and the user / ux interface which widen both our user base and our underlying use cases. To hold long-term attention, web3 products themselves must transparently solve common and authentic problems for users and continue to add long-term value.
