As the hunt for innovation intensifies during this bear crypto market, a handful of projects are leading the way in popularizing Web3 via improved onboarding methods, user-experiences, and use-cases. These projects include:Sui Network: With its fast transaction speeds and simplified onboarding process compared to other blockchains, Sui is making Web3 more accessible and user-friendly.Metacade: Metacade is set to attract mainstream gamers to Web3 by functioning as a portal to top play2earn games, providing its own token incentives for gamers, and bringing GameFi developers together on one platform.Biconomy: Biconomy’s developer toolset enables streamlined Web3 onboarding that lets users pay gas fees in various tokens, or even avoid paying them entirely.MetaBlox: A leader in Web3 infrastructure, MetaBlox is creating a WiFi DePIN that lets users mine crypto with their WiFi router.Google Cloud + Orderly Network: Google Cloud and Orderly Network’s collaboration is focused on providing much-needed developer kits and infrastructure for DeFi, with an emphasis on addressing two persistent issues in the sector: user self-custody and transparency.Brave Browser: This decentralized web browser is revolutionizing digital advertising and internet surfing by paying users crypto for viewing ads.Immutable: Immutable’s new Passport crypto wallet makes onboarding to GameFi seamless while bringing much greater interoperability to its associated ecosystem of digital assets.

Keep reading to explore how these major blockchain players are helping build Web3 as we head into 2024…

Sui Network

Sui Network is a level 1 blockchain that uses parallel execution to achieve speeds up to ten thousand times faster than Ethereum. These sorts of speeds are what’s needed to attract the masses of internet users to Web3, so this project is worth some attention.

Sui network has also made significant progress in simplifying the Web3 onboarding process by allowing users to sign up for Sui-built apps — including GameFi, NFT, and DeFi ones — without a crypto wallet or seed phrase. Instead, users can now log into these dApps the same way they log into Web2 applications: through social media or email signups.

Metacade

Delivering GameFi experiences that are sure to attract mainstream gamers to decentralized gaming, Metacade is an Ethereum-built platform that brings together different play2earn games in the first blockchain-powered virtual arcade. It allows users to discover new gaming experiences by aggregating top games and leaderboards.

While functioning as a portal to different GameFi platforms, Metacade also provides a platform for developers and gamers to communicate and exchange ideas.

And because of its various partnerships with well-established play-2-earn projects, Metacade also offers better chances of winning rewards through gameplay. On top of the native tokens that can be won on individual GameFi apps, those registered on Metacade also let users win $MCADE during gameplay.

While they can be exchanged on major crypto platforms, these tokens can also be used to vote on which developer-submitted games will receive funding from Metacade.

Biconomy

Biconomy is a blockchain protocol and provider of Web3 developer tools designed to improve the UX of dApps.

The project’s recently released SDK includes features that allow developers to build the following transformative improvements into its dApp experiences:

• Gas fee payments in any ERC-20 token (instead of ETH), including the BICO token, which is the native token used by dApps using Biconomy protocol.

• dApp-sponsored gas fee payments so users pay nothing.

• Credit card on-ramps for crypto and NFT purchases.

Transaction batching resulting in single-click actions for complex transactions, reducing repeated authorizations and repetitive click-throughs.

• Secure, Web2-like social logins and account recovery mechanisms.

All these features ease the Web3 onboarding process, making it more familiar to Web2 users who aren’t used to the hassle of fees for website access or the need to purchase multiple cryptocurrencies to use a web application.

MetaBlox

MetaBlox, a leader in the area of Web3 infrastructure, is paving the way for easy access to Web3 via its decentralized WiFi OpenRoaming roaming network. MetaBlox WiFi routers, which provide access to this global network, are also miners that produce mPoints. These rewards will become available to stake for ROAM tokens after the project’s token launch.

The network’s special routers function as nodes that work together to verify the Decentralized Identitiy (DID) web credentials on users’ devices, establishing secure WiFi connections for them in the process, and subsequently issuing mPoints. Authentication data is also sent to a foundational blockchain for final verification.

This keeps users’ personal data out of central databases throughout the WiFi login process, as the process ensures that their online identities are verified in a fully decentralized way.

Anyone can download a DID credential for free on the MetaBlox app to enjoy free WiFi at locations around the world. The app’s helpful map section also shows nearby hotspots:

Thanks to OpenRoaming technology, users devices’ connect automatically at every MetaBlox router. Moreover, all connections are protected by enterprise-level security–a higher security setup than what’s offered by most other public networks.

The mPoint mining process carried out by the network’s routers is what drives the deployment and further expansion of MetaBlox’s global WiFi network, with the token incentives encouraging people to set up their own access points. This is now easier than ever to do, as instead of deploying a MetaBlox miner, individuals can also setup their existing WiFi router/network to mine mPoints.

By offering rewards for deploying in-demand public internet coverage, MetaBlox is set to onboard the masses to Web3 with its WiFi DePIN.

Google Cloud and Orderly Network

Google Cloud is collaborating with blockchain project Orderly Network to create user-oriented developer kits for the DeFi space, in order to develop low-barrier on-ramps and other crucial infrastructure for crypto transactions. Under the project, orderly will become a DeFi infrastructure provider available on Google Cloud Marketplace.

The partnership puts emphasis on developing off-chain infrastructure components that improve user self-custody and the transparency of DeFi platforms. It also aims to accelerate DeFi adoption and enhance scalability through providing professional developer tools.

Orderly will store DeFi data in both on-chain and off-chain components to strike a balance between speed/efficiency and decentralization. This type of model is sure to help bring DeFi into the mainstream by providing Web3 with versatile, user-oriented developer tools.

Brave Browser

One of the main problems with advertising today is that users usually skip the ads before viewing their content. So with its Basic Attention Token (BAT), Brave web browser aims to make it possible for consumers to be rewarded for actually viewing ads that come up online.

Created in 2017, the platform has become quite popular over the years, and now has 50 million monthly active users and 15.5 million daily ones.

Brave is an open-source, privacy-oriented browser designed to block malware, trackers, and cookies. It utilizes blockchain technology to anonymously and securely track user attention, which results in rewards for publishers, advertisers and ad viewers. After opting in to the Brave Ads Program, users can earn BAT simply by clicking through non-intrusive ad notifications. The more ads they view, the more BAT they get.

The BAT token is one of the 100 biggest cryptocurrency projects, and during the initial coin offering, a billion tokens were sold in just 30 seconds, raising more than $35 million. By providing the opportunity to passively earn this cryptocurrency simply for using an alternate browser, Brave brings a strong Web3 use-case that is sure to continue attracting attention.

Immutable Passport

Known for its GameFi developer platform, Immutable has recently launched Passport, a wallet that will help bring Web3 gaming into the mainstream with transformative onboarding and interoperability features.

Web3 gaming and the metaverse promise exciting experiences, but they are accompanied by a high level of complexity for newcomers. To start Web3 gaming, players currently need to jump through multiple hoops like setting up a crypto wallet, obtaining particular cryptocurrencies, and acquiring non-fungible tokens (NFTs). This is, moreover, a process that often needs to be repeated for each new game.

Immutable Passport addresses these issues with its non-custodial crypto wallet, which operates with the ease of a single sign-on (SSO) system, similar to platforms like Google that let users login to numerous websites with the same account.

With Immutable Passport, users gain this same convenience of a unified account, but for GameFi, opening up access to multiple metaverses and Web3 gaming experiences under one account.

This innovation is also targeted at game developers. By integrating Passport into their projects, developers can contribute to an interconnected gaming ecosystem from the very beginning, where gamers can login everywhere with a single account.

Immutable Passport thus represents a step towards a more user-friendly and accessible Web3 gaming landscape, where the barriers to entry are lowered, and exploration is made simpler. It’s a tool that has the potential to reshape the way we engage with Web3 gaming and the metaverse, emphasizing ease of use and inclusivity.

In Conclusion

With the projects mentioned above, Web3 is set to become the dominant paradigm of the internet. Offering more user-friendly login methods and platforms than ever before, they will compel more Web2 users than ever to make the switch to Web3 as we approach 2024.

Check out MetaBlox’s website and community/social media channels for more info on Web3’s WiFi network.