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Web 3.0 is the new generation of the Internet that is reconstructed with distributed technology, which focuses on data ownership and value expression. Also, it operates under the principle that data and digital assets should be owned and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Meng Shen , Zhehui Tan , Dusit Niyato , Yuzhi Liu , Jiawen Kang , Zehui Xiong , Liehuang Zhu , Wei Wang , Xuemin , Shen

Web3 technologies have experienced unprecedented growth in the last decade, achieving widespread adoption. As various blockchain networks continue to evolve, we are on the cusp of a paradigm shift in which they could provide services…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Khalid Hassan , Amirreza Sokhankhosh , Sara Rouhani

Web3 aims at creating a decentralized platform that is competitive with modern cloud infrastructures that support today's Internet. However, Web3 is still limited, supporting only applications in the domains of content creation and sharing,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-12-15 Pedro Ákos Costa , João Leitão , Yannis Psaras

The internet faces a sovereignty crisis due to power concentration and data growth among a few hyperscalers, leading to centralization and loss of user control. This consolidation risks censorship and creates single points of failure. While…

Web3 is the most hyped concept from 2020 to date, greatly motivating the prosperity of the Internet of Value and Metaverse. However, no solid evidence stipulates the exact definition, criterion, or standard in the sense of such a buzzword.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Qin Wang , Rujia Li , Qi Wang , Shiping Chen , Mark Ryan , Thomas Hardjono

The rapid evolution of the Internet, particularly the emergence of Web3, has transformed the ways people interact and share data. Web3, although still not well defined, is thought to be a return to the decentralization of corporations'…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Synim Selimi , Blerim Rexha , Kamer Vishi

Web 3.0 pursues the establishment of decentralized ecosystems based on blockchain technologies to drive the digital transformation of physical commerce and governance. Through consensus algorithms and smart contracts in blockchain, which…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Xiaoxu Ren , Minrui Xu , Dusit Niyato , Jiawen Kang , Zehui Xiong , Chao Qiu , Xiaofei Wang

The emerging Web3 has great potential to provide worldwide decentralized services powered by global-range data-driven networks in the future. To ensure the security of Web3 services among diverse user entities, a decentralized identity…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-04 Yalin Liu , Zhigang Yan , Bingyuan Luo , Xiaochi Xu , Hong-Ning Dai , Yaru Fu , Bishenghui Tao , Siu-Kei Au Yeung

Centralized social networks have experienced a transformative impact on our digital era communication, connection, and information-sharing information. However, it has also raised significant concerns regarding users' privacy and individual…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Quang Cao , Katerina Vgena , Aikaterini-Georgia Mavroeidi , Christos Kalloniatis , Xun Yi , Son Hoang Dau

This paper introduces Web3DB, a decentralized relational database management system (RDBMS) designed to align with the principles of Web 3.0, addressing critical shortcomings of traditional centralized DBMS, such as data privacy, security…

World Wide Web is speeding up its pace into an intelligent and decentralized ecosystem, as seen in the campaign of Web 3.0 and forthcoming Web 4.0. Marked by the Europe Commission's latest mention of Web 4.0, a race towards strategic Web…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Zihan Zhou , Zihao Li , Xiaoshuai Zhang , Yunqing Sun , Hao Xu

Decentralization is a fundamental design element of the Web3 economy. Blockchains and distributed consensus mechanisms are touted as fault-tolerant, attack-resistant, and collusion-proof because they are decentralized. Recent analyses,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Harang Ju , Madhav Kumar , Ehsan Valavi , Sinan Aral

A key challenge for mobile network operators in 6G is to bring together and orchestrate a variety of new emerging players of today's mobile ecosystems in order to provide economically viable and seamless mobile connectivity in form of a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Sandro Rodriguez Garzon , Hakan Yildiz , Axel Küpper

Current architectures to validate, certify, and manage identity are based on centralised, top-down approaches that rely on trusted authorities and third-party operators. We approach the problem of digital identity starting from a human…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-02-26 Geoff Goodell , Tomaso Aste

Web 3.0 represents the next stage of Internet evolution, aiming to empower users with increased autonomy, efficiency, quality, security, and privacy. This evolution can potentially democratize content access by utilizing the latest…

The development of underlying technologies in blockchain mostly revolves around a difficult problem: how to enhance the performance of the system and reduce various costs of nodes (such as communication, storage and verification) without…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Lide Xue , Wei Yang , Wei Li

Online social networking has quickly become one of the most common activities of Internet users. As social networks evolve, they encourage users to share more information, requiring the users, in turn, to place more trust into social…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2010-02-05 David Isaac Wolinsky , Pierre St. Juste , P. Oscar Boykin , Renato Figueiredo

We talk of the internet as digital infrastructure; but we leave the building of rails and roads to the quasi-monopolistic platform providers. Decentralised architectures provide a number of advantages: They are potentially more inclusive…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Yvonne Dittrich , Kim Peiter Jørgensen , Ravi Prakash , Willard Rafnsson , Jonas Kastberg Hinrichsen

At present, the concept of metaverse has sparked widespread attention from the public to major industries. With the rapid development of blockchain and Web3 technologies, the decentralized metaverse ecology has attracted a large influx of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Jiajing Wu , Kaixin Lin , Dan Lin , Ziye Zheng , Huawei Huang , Zibin Zheng

In this article, we explore the tension between abstraction and composability in web3 today, specifically within identity solutions, and argue that the current standard DID v1.0 is sufficiently under specified, allowing for many methods and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-25 Shrey Jain , Leon Erichsen , Glen Weyl