Information Internet: The Enormous Power of Platforms
From the user's perspective, you publish content, express opinions and insights, obtain traffic, and convert revenue on current mainstream Web2 platforms such as Xiaohongshu and Douyin, but the rights and interests of your account, data, content, etc. belong to the platform. That is, the content and data of a video you publish belong to the platform, and the platform provides a channel for you to express your opinions or obtain revenue from traffic.
From the platform's perspective, it hopes that more and more excellent content and users will continue to create content to bring better influence to the platform and thus gain better reputation and investment returns.
In the economic model of Web2 centralized platforms, there is such a win-win situation. However, behind this win-win situation, the platform still has enormous power, which can decide whether an account is banned and whether the content is displayed more. Users become nomads who can "migrate" and "wander" at any time on the Web2 Internet because you have no power on the Internet.
And this is exactly what Web3 is going to do.
Value Internet: Users have the final say
Web3 is an "ownable" Internet of value. It uses blockchain to authenticate the data generated or created by users, or circulates the data by casting it into NFTs. In essence, it realizes the user's data sovereignty through the distributed, tamper-proof, traceable, and permanent storage characteristics of blockchain.
In Web3's DApp (decentralized application), the data you generate or the content you create on the platform essentially belongs to you. The platform only provides a channel for your data to be stored and circulated. Other users or advertisers can appreciate or cooperate through your IP.
Web3 is an Internet dominated by user interests. It conducts business activities in the form of person-to-person (P2P), person-to-business (P2B), and person-to-organization (P2O). Super individuals, super IPs, and DAOs are all forms of organization and profit in the Web3 era.
DePIN Economic Model
The "value" of the value Internet comes partly from individual or collective production and creation, and partly from tangible or intangible assets in the real world. The process of mapping real-world assets to the on-chain world for circulation and trading is called RWA (real-world asset on-chain).
DePIN is more inclined towards infrastructure construction. By deploying and coordinating physical resources (such as storage, electricity, wireless networks, IoT devices) running on the blockchain, it mobilizes individuals or organizations to contribute hardware resources in the form of token incentives, thereby realizing a large-scale decentralized DePIN economic model.
Taking decentralized cloud computing power as an example, individuals or enterprises can gain profits by connecting idle computing resources to a decentralized cloud computing power platform deployed on the blockchain, contributing computing power, casting computing power into NFTs, renting or pledging computing power NFTs, and trading and circulating them on the platform.
Conclusion
It can be seen that in Web3, whether it is users creating value or circulating the value of real-world assets in the Web3 network, it is essentially dominated by user interests.
In the future, with the implementation of AI large models and metaverse immersive virtual scenes, the huge market and user groups will inevitably force AI (such as autonomous driving), metaverse (such as e-commerce or social networking), 3A games and other fields to adopt Web3 network as infrastructure for the useful value of content, data and other useful values generated by related scenes.
An Internet where users have the final say will come.
