Web3 for Fun & Profit

Web3 for Fun & Profit 🚀 🌔 Agency • Openness • Re-decentralization 🌐✨

Brooklyn Zelenka @expede

Brooklyn Zelenka @expede ff • CTO at Fission • https://fission.codes, @FISSIONCodes • Deep tech, distributed systems R&D • Infra & browser SDK for “edge (web3) apps” • Standards: DIF, UCAN, Ethereum, Filecoin, others • Meetups: VanFP, Code & Co ee

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What is a “Web3”? So Many Questions! So Much Anxiety! • What is even happening?! • Is this a pyramid scheme? • Am I being left behind? • Isn’t Web 3.0 semantic tags?

What the #$%@& is Even Happening? Don’t Panic!

This has all happened before

This has all happened before …and will happen again

What is Even Happening? Just a Fad

What is Even Happening? What’s In a Name? 🌹

What is Even Happening? What’s In a Name? 🌹 https://www.irishtimes.com/business/web-geeks-need-to-practice-the-art-of-plain-speaking-1.1014319

What is Even Happening? Web 2.0 Was Hard, Too! https://www.oreilly.com/pub/a/web2/archive/what-is-web-20.html

Web3 A technological & social movement characterized by openness, interoperability, and user agency

Decentralization 2. Non-discrimination 3. Bottom-up Design 4. Universality 5. Consensus ~ World Wide Web Foundation, “History of the Web”

Decentralization 2. Non-discrimination 3. Bottom-up Design 4. Universality 5. Consensus en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSI_model ~ World Wide Web Foundation, “History of the Web”

“It’s decentralized”

“It’s decentralized” u S t u b , re ? y h w 🙄

The internet was designed to be resilient to nuclear attack

What is Even Happening? Network Topologies

What is Even Happening? Network Topologies Star ⭐ Centralized

What is Even Happening? Network Topologies Star ⭐ Hub ⚙ Centralized Decentralized

What is Even Happening? Network Topologies Star ⭐ Hub ⚙ Centralized Decentralized Mesh 🕸 Distributed

What is Even Happening? Network Topologies Star ⭐ Hub ⚙ Mesh 🕸 💥 💥 💥 Centralized Decentralized Distributed

What is Even Happening? Network Topologies Star ⭐ Hub ⚙ Mesh 🕸 💥 💥 💥 💥 Centralized Decentralized Distributed

What is Even Happening? Network Topologies Star ⭐ Hub ⚙ Mesh 🕸 💥 💥 💥 💥 💥 Centralized Decentralized Distributed

[…] existing infrastructure will not be able to handle the volumes or the rates We are absolutely going to return to a peer-to-peer computing […] not unlike distributed computing ~ a16z, “The End of Cloud Computing”

What is Even Happening? Evolution 🦎🦖🕊

What is Even Happening? Evolution 🦎🦖🕊 The Web Web 2.0 Web3

What is Even Happening? Evolution 🦎🦖🕊 When The Web Web 2.0 Web3 1989 onward 2005 onward 2020 onward

What is Even Happening? Evolution 🦎🦖🕊 When User Role The Web Web 2.0 Web3 1989 onward 2005 onward 2020 onward Consumer Creator Owner

What is Even Happening? Evolution 🦎🦖🕊 When User Role Content The Web Web 2.0 Web3 1989 onward 2005 onward 2020 onward Consumer Creator Owner Linked, Static Interactive Generative, Repurposed

What is Even Happening? Evolution 🦎🦖🕊 When User Role Content Interop The Web Web 2.0 Web3 1989 onward 2005 onward 2020 onward Consumer Creator Owner Linked, Static Interactive Generative, Repurposed Siloed Pre-negotiated Permissionless

What is Even Happening? Evolution 🦎🦖🕊 When User Role Content Interop Infrastructure The Web Web 2.0 Web3 1989 onward 2005 onward 2020 onward Consumer Creator Owner Linked, Static Interactive Generative, Repurposed Siloed Pre-negotiated Permissionless Self-Hosted Trusted Provider Trustless Commons

What is Even Happening? Evolution 🦎🦖🕊 When User Role Content Interop Infrastructure Monetization The Web Web 2.0 Web3 1989 onward 2005 onward 2020 onward Consumer Creator Owner Linked, Static Interactive Generative, Repurposed Siloed Pre-negotiated Permissionless Self-Hosted Trusted Provider Trustless Commons (Closed) eCommerce Ads & Attention Open Markets

More Than DeFi Agency & Ownership

Agency & Ownership User Agency • Lower the barrier to entry • Empower users to participate (entry) • Option to leave (exit) • Control your data • Provable ownership

Agency & Ownership Digital Scarcity • Control your ID • Own your data • Provable uniqueness

Agency & Ownership User-Controlled Data • 2001 — Credit card info in DB • 2011 — Store personal info in DB • 2021 — User-managed encryption

Agency & Ownership OAuth Sequence

Agency & Ownership UCAN Sequence 🕙 🕙

Agency & Ownership JWT++

New Tools Interoperability 👽

Interoperability Permissionless

Interoperability Permissionless www.cryptokitties.co

Interoperability Permissionless www.cryptokitties.co github.com/dapperlabs/cryptokitties-bounty/blob/master/contracts/KittyBase.sol

Interoperability Permissionless 🧬 www.cryptokitties.co github.com/dapperlabs/cryptokitties-bounty/blob/master/contracts/KittyBase.sol

Interoperability Permissionless

Interoperability Permissionless www.kittyrace.com

Interoperability Permissionless www.kittyrace.com kotowars.com

B E W THE P U K R A M C I T N A M E S T U O Y A L R E EASI OPEN M R O F PLAT

Open Infra, Better Together Commons Networks 🤝

Better Together Open Source

Better Together Open Source Lots of people work on it, everybody benefits from it, and then people can build upon it (even in a revenue generating fashion) ~ Ted Leung, Commons Based Peer Production (2005)

Better Together Commons Networks

Better Together Commons Networks Lots of people work on it, everybody benefits from it, and then people can build upon it (even in a revenue generating fashion), and it is “owned” by everyone

Better Together Commons Networks Lots of people work on it, everybody benefits from it, and then people can build upon it (even in a revenue generating fashion), and it is “owned” by everyone By participating (even with competitive goals) you are strengthening the network for everyone

Better Together “With a Little Scale From My Friends”

Better Together Throughput “With a Little Scale From My Friends” Parallelization

Better Together “With a Little Scale From My Friends” Throughput Ideal (Linear) Parallelization

Better Together “With a Little Scale From My Friends” Ideal (Linear) Throughput Amdahl’s Law Parallelization

Better Together “With a Little Scale From My Friends” Ideal (Linear) Throughput Amdahl’s Law Universal Scaling Law Parallelization

Better Together “With a Little Scale From My Friends” Ideal (Linear) Throughput Amdahl’s Law Incoherence, Data Contention Universal Scaling Law Parallelization

Better Together “With a Little Scale From My Friends” Throughput Cooperative Advantage Ideal (Linear) Amdahl’s Law Incoherence, Data Contention Universal Scaling Law Parallelization

Better Together The End of (Infra) History

Better Together The End of (Infra) History Visible Ambient Custom Product / Rental Commodity / Utility

Better Together The End of (Infra) History Visible Bar rie r to Ent ry Ambient Custom Product / Rental Commodity / Utility

Better Together The End of (Infra) History Visible Bespoke Private Ownership Bar rie Shared Hosting, Cloud r to Ent ry Serverless Commons Ambient Custom Product / Rental Commodity / Utility

To the Moon What Now? 🚀🌗

Where to Start Ever Growing Toolbox Web3

Where to Start Ever Growing Toolbox Web3 Serverless Cloud

Where to Start Ever Growing Toolbox Web3 Serverless Cloud P2P

Where to Start Ever Growing Toolbox Web3 Serverless Cloud Local-First O ffl P2P ine

Where to Start Ever Growing Toolbox Web3 Serverless Networked Data Cloud Commons Networks Local-First Blockchain O ffl P2P ine

Where to Start Ever Growing Toolbox • proto.school • js.ipfs.io • ethereum.org/en/developers • github.com/automerge/automerge • npmjs.com/package/ucans

Web3 1. Openness 2. Interoperability 3. User Agency

It’s moving fast… but still early

It’s moving fast… but still early Open problems means there’s low hanging fruit and you can have real impact

🎉🏔 Thank You, 🇨🇦🇺🇸 CascadiaJS brooklyn@fission.codes https://fission.codes github.com/expede @expede