Meanings
web31
- Alternative letter-case form of Web3.
According to a report by Bloomberg, Meta is focused on think tanks and nonprofits, especially those that lean libertarian or free market, to presumably convince them that what happened back in web2 will not be an issue in web3, the supposed next phase of the internet.
2022 February 4, Kara Swisher, “Meta’s Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Quarter”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
Web32
- alternativeAlternative form of Web 3.0.
“We want to be a Web3 lifestyle company,” says Goner, who emphasizes that they’re still growing. “I’m a metaverse maximalist at this point. […]
2021 November 1, Samantha Hissong, quoting Gordon Goner, “How Four NFT Novices Created a Billion-Dollar Ecosystem of Cartoon Apes”, in Rolling Stone2 more examples
The biggest investors and industry players are also lobbying in Washington to influence rules that would favor their futuristic view of tokenomics, which can already be seen in some burgeoning communities where web3 is not some abstract concept but a feature of daily life.
2021 December 5, Ephrat Livni, “Welcome to ‘Web3.’ What’s That?”, in New York TimesThere are naysayers, too, notably proponents of more distributed technologies that are known as Web3, who argue that blockchains and cryptocurrencies are the next big thing—though as Ben Thompson, a tech pundit, points out, these may find much better use cases in the metaverse than in the real world.
2021 December 18, “The billionaire battle for the metaverse”, in The Economist, →ISSN
Cite this entry
web3. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/web3
“web3.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/web3. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “web3,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/web3.
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