Honestly, Web3 is partially it now. If you remove the hype and buzzwords, you are left with a bunch of individually addressable contracts that can all be composed and integrated together seamlessly under a single web frontend.
I remember years ago doing something as simple as getting a coin onto an alt-chain was a 20 step process. Get the gas coin on the target chain, find the right contract address, bridge the assets over, do a bunch of conversions, finally to get the token on the chain I wanted.
These days its a single click. Different tools or companies have sprung up, and while they use the same exact contracts I would have manually interacted with before, they script them all together into one transaction to save time and gas fees. A simple UI to select destination chain and coin and it handles all the swaps, gas, bridging, etc needed.
You don't need permission and a lot of standards have developed to keep things running smooth.
It's not just coins and crypto either. No reason not to develop other things off the chain too.
I've been working on my own PIM (personal information management) suite and using web3 has been amazing. No need to worry about a server or a database. Just deploy my code to the chain and store all my data encrypted on chain as well. The altchains are extremely cheap and this storage is already backed up, replicated, distributed, and can be local with a self-ran node. I will never lose it and I can bootstrap my data from scratch anywhere in the world as long as I can sync the chain or reach an API. I have todo lists, notes, contact management, and more in the pipeline and I've never felt so safe about my infrastructure or data before.
I remember years ago doing something as simple as getting a coin onto an alt-chain was a 20 step process. Get the gas coin on the target chain, find the right contract address, bridge the assets over, do a bunch of conversions, finally to get the token on the chain I wanted.
These days its a single click. Different tools or companies have sprung up, and while they use the same exact contracts I would have manually interacted with before, they script them all together into one transaction to save time and gas fees. A simple UI to select destination chain and coin and it handles all the swaps, gas, bridging, etc needed.
You don't need permission and a lot of standards have developed to keep things running smooth.
It's not just coins and crypto either. No reason not to develop other things off the chain too.
I've been working on my own PIM (personal information management) suite and using web3 has been amazing. No need to worry about a server or a database. Just deploy my code to the chain and store all my data encrypted on chain as well. The altchains are extremely cheap and this storage is already backed up, replicated, distributed, and can be local with a self-ran node. I will never lose it and I can bootstrap my data from scratch anywhere in the world as long as I can sync the chain or reach an API. I have todo lists, notes, contact management, and more in the pipeline and I've never felt so safe about my infrastructure or data before.