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Decentralized Metaverses, built on Web 3.0 and Web 4.0 technologies, have attracted significant attention across various fields. This innovation leverages blockchain, Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs), Extended Reality (XR) and…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Paula Fraga-Lamas , Sérgio Ivan Lopes , Tiago M. Fernández-Caramés

Web 3.0 focuses on the decentralization of the internet and creating a system of interconnected and independent computers for improved privacy and security. We extend the idea of the decentralization of the web to the social media space:…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Lynnette Hui Xian Ng , Samantha C. Phillips , Kathleen M. Carley

The Web3 ecosystem is highly fragmented, making seamless integration difficult for over a billion Web2 businesses, enterprises, and AI protocols. As blockchains, rollups, and app-specific chains expand, cross-chain interactions remain…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Hardik Gajera , Akhil Reddy , Bhagath Reddy

Web3's decentralised infrastructure has upended the standardised approach to digital identity established by protocols like OpenID Connect. Web2 and Web3 currently operate in silos, with Web2 leveraging selective disclosure JSON web tokens…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Ben Biedermann , Matthew Scerri , Victoria Kozlova , Joshua Ellul

Metaverse, the core of the next-generation Internet, is a computer-generated holographic digital environment that simultaneously combines spatio-temporal, immersive, real-time, sustainable, interoperable, and data-sensitive characteristics.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Chuan Chen , Yuecheng Li , Zhenpeng Wu , Chengyuan Mai , Youming Liu , Yanming Hu , Zibin Zheng , Jiawen Kang

The decentralized and trustless nature of cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology leads to a shift in the digital world. The possibility to execute small programs, called smart contracts, on cryptocurrencies like Ethereum opened doors to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-01-15 Hendrik Amler , Lisa Eckey , Sebastian Faust , Marcel Kaiser , Philipp Sandner , Benjamin Schlosser

Web3 systems expose a fundamentally different security landscape from centralized platforms, characterized by composability, pseudonymous identities, decentralized governance, and rapidly evolving attack strategies that span social,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Stefan Kambiz Behfar , Jon Crowcroft

Ubiquitous connectivity, networked computation, open technologies and advances in intelligent web approaches enable the third-generation web, Web3.0. Not least due to advancements in crypto technologies adoption in real world applications,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-09-02 Alexander Poddey , Nik Scharmann

In recent years, the maturation of emerging technologies such as Virtual Reality, Digital twins, and Blockchain has accelerated the realization of the metaverse. As a virtual world independent of the real world, the metaverse will provide…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Xiaolong Xu , Xuanhong Zhou , Muhammad Bilal , Sherali Zeadally , Jon Crowcroft , Lianyong Qi , Shengjun Xue

The Web community has introduced a set of standards and technologies for representing, querying, and manipulating a globally distributed data structure known as the Web of Data. The proponents of the Web of Data envision much of the world's…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2009-08-05 Marko A. Rodriguez

The fifth generation (5G) wireless networks are on the way to be deployed around the world. The 5G technologies target to support diverse vertical applications by connecting heterogeneous devices and machines with drastic improvements in…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Dinh C Nguyen , Pubudu N Pathirana , Ming Ding , Aruna Seneviratne

There has been recently a growth of interest in developing the current machine-readable Web towards the next generation of machine-understandable Web - Semantic Web. The development of the Web to a global business was reasonably fast,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Bryar A. Hassan

Much of the recent excitement around decentralized finance (DeFi) comes from hopes that DeFi can be a secure, private, less centralized alternative to traditional finance systems. However, people moving to DeFi sites in hopes of improving…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Philipp Winter , Anna Harbluk Lorimer , Peter Snyder , Benjamin Livshits

The rise of Web3 social ecosystems signifies the dawn of a new chapter in digital interaction, offering significant prospects for user engagement and financial advancement. Nonetheless, this progress is shadowed by potential privacy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Bin Wang , Tianjian Liu , Wenqi Wang , Yuan Weng , Chao Li , Guangquan Xu , Meng Shen , Sencun Zhu , Wei Wang

Over the past decade, we have witnessed the Internet becoming increasingly centralized in the hands of a small number of giant technology firms, that control many of the most popular applications and the content they host on their…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Raman Singh , Andrew Donegan , Hitesh Tewari

Since the popularisation of the Internet in the 1990s, the cyberspace has kept evolving. We have created various computer-mediated virtual environments including social networks, video conferencing, virtual 3D worlds (e.g., VR Chat),…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-11-04 Lik-Hang Lee , Tristan Braud , Pengyuan Zhou , Lin Wang , Dianlei Xu , Zijun Lin , Abhishek Kumar , Carlos Bermejo , Pan Hui

The concept of Metaverse has attracted a lot of attention in various fields and one of its important applications is health and treatment. The Metaverse has enormous potential to transform healthcare by changing patient care, medical…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Fatemeh Ebrahimzadeh , Ramin Safa

In this study, we proposed an architecture for Web 3.0, which is based on the hashed interactions among user nodes that can transform bilateral trusts into collective time order, which is the major achievement of blockchain technology,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Hengjin Cai , Tianqi Cai

With the emergence of Cloud computing, Internet of Things-enabled Human-Computer Interfaces, Generative Artificial Intelligence, and high-accurate Machine and Deep-learning recognition and predictive models, along with the Post Covid-19…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Leila Ismail , Rajkumar Buyya

The decentralized architecture of Web3 technologies creates fundamental challenges for Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Financing of Terrorism compliance. Traditional regulatory technology solutions designed for centralized financial…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Qian'ang Mao , Jiaxin Wang , Ya Liu , Li Zhu , Jiaman Chen , Jiaqi Yan