My first impressions of web3Â a great great read about the current state of web3 and its problems. So many takeaways:
- why centralized platforms emerged:
- People don’t want to run their own servers, and never will
- A protocol moves much more slowly than a platform
The lack of “distributedness” in the current web3:
All the network diagrams are of servers, the trust model is between servers, everything is about servers. Blockchains are designed to be a network of peers, but not designed such that it’s really possible for your mobile device or your browser to be one of those peers.
Almost all dApps use either Infura or Alchemy in order to interact with the blockchain. In fact, even when you connect a wallet like MetaMask to a dApp, and the dApp interacts with the blockchain via your wallet, MetaMask is just making calls to Infura!