In the web2 era, traffic portals have gone through several stages, from early navigation websites to search engines to mobile social applications. So what will be the traffic portal in the web3 era? Some people mention it is a market information website and some people suggest it is a wallet app, but we think it is a dedicated web3 browser.
First of all, whether it is market information websites, social applications, exchanges, etc., we do not rule out that it can obtain a large amount of user traffic. However, it is not the way for users to enter web3 applications. At present, the only way for users to enter web3 applications is through a wallet or browser.
Web3 applications are completely developed based on the web. All applications need to be opened in a browser and accessed through wallet links. Therefore, the browser is the necessary way to web3 applications. You may think that you can also open those dapps in the wallet. That’s because the wallets are currently embedded with a WebView control to support access to some relatively simple web3 products that are not used on a large scale, so you can open various Defi products and other interactive web3 products in the wallet, but will you access decentralized Twitter in your wallet or use decentralized storage to watch videos? Just like you wouldn't access this mess in your banking app.
Web3 applications are all run based on various blockchains. To use these applications, you must link to the corresponding wallet. There are currently hundreds of chains in the market, and browsers can load and run various wallet extensions to access a certain application on a certain chain. The open-source architecture of the browser allows it to support the operation of any wallet extensions. For wallets, developers will be required to add functions when the chain matures. Most wallets are targeted at a certain chain. For users, if they need to access all chains in the market, they need to download lots of wallets on their mobile phones. We believe most users are frustrated, so at this point, the browser has an inherent advantage in being user-friendly compared to wallets.
Finally, let’s talk about why web3 applications do not need mobile apps. In the web2 era, we have seen that except for a few products with huge user bases that require apps, most apps do not have many users. And a large number of web3 products do not have a large number of users as well, so there is no need to develop their apps; Internet companies develop their apps to give users a good experience, and with the advancement of technology, browsers can fully meet this demand, and for web3 products, it is more convenient to quickly acquire users by supporting the access through a browser.
Therefore, in the web3 era, the future traffic portal must be a web3-specific browser based on user needs rather than a wallet app. As the only open-source web3 mobile browser in the world that supports extensions, Mises Browser may be destined to become the traffic portal in the #Web3 world. $BTC $ETH $BNB
