What the hell is Web3?

And should you care about it?

If you spend time reading the tech media, you’ll have noticed a few buzzwords drifting above the parapets over the past few months. The first is the ‘metaverse’, which I’ve covered before and will no doubt continue to write about as it develops. The other is ‘Web3’, which has escaped the safe confines of TechCrunch stories, cryptocurrency newsletters an…