دانلود کتاب عصر تمرکززدایی – چگونه وب ۳ و فناوری‌های مرتبط، صنایع و زندگی ما را تغییر خواهند داد

In the grand maze of human progress, moments of radical innovation often emerge as turbulent waves crashing against the shores of convention. These disruptive surges challenge the established norms, provoke regulatory scrutiny, and navigate tumultuous waters before eventually merging into the calm expanse of the mainstream. It is within this transformative ebb and flow that the narratives of innovation often find their genesis, revealing a cycle of evolution – of clashes, adaptations, and assimilations. Okay, I ran out of my poetic abilities here – let us return to plain English. Throughout technological history, many radical technologies emerged and clashed with the mainstream industry and regulations. These clashes sometimes resulted in truce and sometimes massacres. Here, we are not talking about the truce but the massacres. While there were probably thousands of radical technologies that came throughout history and disappeared from our collective memory, there are some comparatively recent technologies that faced the wrath of the conventional. So, did these “massacred” technologies just disappear? We are at a similar juncture for Web3 technologies. The failure of the Terra ecosystem in May 2022 rippled through the whole crypto ecosystem and caused a series of failures. The collapse of the FTX crypto exchange in November 2022 transformed the market downturn into a prolonged crypto winter resulting in capital flight from the Web3 sector. But, capital flight is not the only problem for the crypto ecosystem. Regulators around the world are taking a harsher approach to crypto-assets, let that be the Biden administration’s Roadmap to Mitigate Cryptocurrencies’ Risks to the issuance of 146 alerts and warning lists for crypto-asset promotion by the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority in October 2023. Unfavorable market conditions are hindering investments in Web3 projects, evident from a significant decline in investments in Web3 projects. According to Crunchbase Web3 Tracker, investment in Web3 projects has dropped from US $10.4 billion in the first quarter of 2022 to just US $1.2 billion in the last quarter of 2023. 2024 exhibited slight improvement with a $1.7 billion investment in Q1 and a $1.9 billion investment in Q2. So, is this the end of the road for Web3? To answer this question, we need to look into the radical technologies that came before Web3 and challenged the conventions. Maybe understanding what transpired for these radical technologies would shed some light on the fate of Web3.