editor's introduction: With the continuous expansion of the development scale of Web 3.0, it has successfully attracted the attention and love of more and more young people. The post-00s generation who just graduated this year are also rushing into Web 3 and joining its development queue. The author of this article shares the current young generation’s views and thoughts on Web 3, as well as analyzes the development trends of Web 3 and other related content. If you are interested, let’s take a look.
Web3 At the center of the storm, the post-90s and post-00s generations took to the main stage.
"I have established a post-2000 Web3 learning group to share Web3 information and learning resources with each other. I hold Twitter Spaces discussions every Sunday night. If you are interested, please contact me." Recently, after Michel, who was still in his junior year, posted the news on social platforms, a large number of messages "seeking to join the group" quickly occupied his private messages. In just a few days, his group grew from a few people to more than 200 people.
is different from the general atmosphere of diving into a group. This discussion group gathered by young people born in the 2000s is always very active. Technical knowledge, industry news, hot projects, entrepreneurial ideas, all kinds of information are intertwined back and forth in the group. If you don't pay attention, there will be hundreds of unread messages.
"Mainly if you don't know how to use Web3 now, you feel like you are behind the times." Michel told Silicon Stars. "We often discuss among our friends that the biggest dividend period of the last wave of mobile Internet was for those born in the 1970s and 1980s. If our generation is looking for new opportunities for career and wealth, they have to look at Web3."
Young people are rushing into Web3 crazily. is not just a small-scale phenomenon, but an increasingly strong trend.
Recently, if you see a person whose avatar is in comic style, whose social account ends with .eth, and whose profile or circle of friends often has words like DAO, NFT, etc., then don’t doubt that he is probably born in 1995 or 2000. .
Many of these young people, most of whom are in their early 20s, are already veritable Web3 "veterans." Not only does he have many years of investment experience in cryptocurrency and NFT, but he is also familiar with various Defi and GameFi projects. He has even taken the lead in raising the banner of Web3, emerging in all aspects of technology, business, and community, and doing his best to contribute to this Internet revolution. Build momentum.
1. Don’t join a big company after graduation, but work on the most fashionable Web 3
“Nowadays, joining a technology company as an coder is no longer the most fashionable thing, it is just a middle-of-the-road choice.” Kevin, who just graduated from University of British Columbia computer science, told Silicon Star. “All the really talented people are starting Web3 businesses.”
In the graduation season this year, he and several of his friends did not choose to join major Internet companies but started their own businesses, and most of their entrepreneurial projects were focused on the Web3 field.
"There are people who are engaged in NFT, some who are engaged in Game-Fi, and some who are engaged in Web3 social platform. As far as I know, there are very few people who want to directly start a traditional Internet business." . Kevin said. "On the one hand, Web3 funds are now active, and on the other hand, Web3 investors prefer young entrepreneurs more than Web2 investors."
Pang Shunxin, who has just graduated from undergraduate degree for one year, recently completed a multi-million seed round of financing for his Metaverse project. After graduating last year, he gave up the offer of , a top consulting company in Toronto, and decided to create a company called Matterverse with his senior Zheng Xiaoming, All in Metaverse and Web3.
"Our last project was a software that helped the North American decoration industry digitally transform from to . Later, the concepts of Metaverse and Web3 emerged, which made us realize that the immersive Internet experience can be expanded to a larger market." Pang Shunxin said that this idea opened their minds. He and his team spent a lot of time studying the concepts and technologies behind the Metaverse and Web3. The more they studied, the more excited they became, feeling that a whole new Internet world was unfolding before their eyes. After
, they integrated talents while learning, established a post-95 metaverse technology team, and successfully created a cloud-native hyper-realistic metaverse editor. Soon after the product was launched, with their excellent rendering technology and smooth virtual experience, they provided services to many leading luxury goods, fashion products and real estate companies.
Recently, they have also begun to try to promote the co-creation and governance of the project community in the form of DAO.After work, Pang Shunxin also actively expands the Web3 community on Discord and Twitter, often holding various communication activities to discuss industry trends and hot projects with more young people.
Shawn team's projects and the expanding Canadian Web3 community
"Whether it is technically or in terms of operation mode, Web3 is an almost completely different system from the current Internet. Without work experience in a large technology company, these young people can Establish a purer Web3 cognitive system." Web3 investor Danny told Silicon Stars.
"For example, when they are used to running a project in the form of DAO, they will feel that an organization should be equal and co-governed, without the managers who often speak out and suppression by superiors and subordinates that often exist in companies today. Case".
" This is a process of changing concepts, and young people will play a very important role in this process" . Danny added.
Today, becoming a member of Web3 is not only a daily conversation topic for young people, it has even become their social ticket. Just like many people like to buy trendy brands, in the eyes of many students, using their pocket money to invest in the digital currency , own an NFT, and play the GameFi project are all very trendy and cool things.
According to recent survey data released by the Stilt website, more than 90% of cryptocurrency buyers are between the ages of 18-40, with Generation Z (18-24 years old) and Millennials (25-40 years old) The trading interest and purchasing power of crypto-assets is particularly prominent. Among them, more than 80% of Generation Z respondents said they would consider engaging in Web3-related jobs in the future.
Age distribution of traders in the crypto field, picture from Stilt
“In the past two years, almost all my friends around me have been talking about cryptocurrency and NFT. If you want to find common topics and integrate into them, then you have to keep up with this trend. trend". Kevin said.
2. Do " Bill Gates " in the Web 3 era
The influx of young people into Web3 is not just for fun. In fact, many Web3 projects with great influence in the industry today are from their hands.
Among them, is regarded by them as a benchmark peer leader, and is undoubtedly the founder of Ethereum, "V God" - Vitalik Buterin.
html When he was 117 years old, Buterin came into contact with Bitcoin and blockchain for the first time, and founded a website called Bitcoin Magazine as a co-founder and main author; at the age of 19, he was admitted to the University of Waterloo, majoring in computer science. He was admitted, but dropped out of school after only 8 months, and subsequently released the white paper "Ethereum: The Next Generation of Smart Contracts and Decentralized Application Platforms";Since then, he has traveled around the world to popularize Ethereum. Today, the 28-year-old Vitalik Buterin is worth over 10 billion, and he is also the most influential and important technical leader in the blockchain field after Satoshi Nakamoto .
"Bill Gates dropped out of school at the age of 19 to create Microsoft , Zuckerberg dropped out of school at the age of 19 to create Facebook , and now Vitalik Buterin also dropped out of school at the age of 19 to create Ethereum. On the road of technological advancement, there will always be a group of young people to do it. Leader of the times." Danny told Silicon Stars.
Under the influence of Buterin, in recent years, more and more post-00s encryption enthusiasts have joined this Web3 wave and begun to gradually emerge.
Not long ago, Paradigm, one of the top venture capital funds in the encryption industry, announced the joining of a new member of Transmissions 11. It is worth noting that this research engineer is still in high school in Silicon Valley.
Transmissions 11 is a hot new star in the field of encryption recently. Like Vitalik in the early days, he often publishes various profound and unique insights on blockchain and DeFi in his personal blog. The current focus of research is to reduce the overall encryption Ecosystem's transaction fee .
His true identity is very mysterious. The currently known information is that he is about 15 years old and studying in a high school in Silicon Valley. started to become a developer after reading the Ethereum white paper at the age of 14, and has since participated in the creation of various DeFi protocols.
Read the articles published by Transmissions 11 carefully. You can hardly imagine that these words and thoughts were written by a high school student. For example, he has a complete "code philosophy" and believes that developers' codes on the blockchain need to be both elegant and efficient. For example, he believes that NFT should not just be a cookie-cutter collection, but should become the center of innovative mechanism design. etc. In his self-introduction, even claimed that he was just studying in high school in his spare time.
"There will definitely be more V gods and Transmissions 11 appearing in the future, just like a large number of young entrepreneurs emerged after Bill Gates and Zuckerberg. Compared with the mobile Internet era, these Web3 entrepreneurs They may be younger." Danny said.
3. Not afraid of the bear market, it is faith and revolution
Although the entire encryption field has been in a downturn recently, and the industry has quickly entered winter from the prosperity of the past two years, this has not extinguished the enthusiasm of these young people for Web3, and even to a certain extent Said that Web 3 has become a firm belief for them.
"It is a good thing that the industry has experienced several shocks, as it can shake out some speculators and speculators. After everyone calms down from the carnival, it will be a good time for some good projects to be slowly established." Kevin said.
In their eyes, today's Web 3 is no longer a fragile system that is easily broken by wind. From the crypto industry having only Bitcoin as its main thread 10 years ago, to the emergence of Ethereum a few years ago, to the explosion of various on-chain applications and business models in the past year or two, Web3 has gradually developed a complete industrial picture. , and formed a whole industry ecosystem from the basic layer to the application layer.
Nowadays, various applications that people are accustomed to using every day can be mapped in Web3.
For example, in the field of cloud storage, we are now accustomed to using Google Drive, AWS, and Dropbox. In Web3, there are decentralized cloud storage networks Sia, Filecoin, and IPFS; in browsers, we are now accustomed to using Chrome, Safari, and in Web3 There are Brave and Swash; in terms of content creation, we now commonly use Youtube, Medium, etc., and in Web3 there are DTube, Mirror, etc....
A great migration from Web2 to Web3 is quietly happening.
Many people born after 1995 and 2000 have gradually become accustomed to the Web3 lifestyle of having an digital wallet , owning their own Ethereum domain name, and chatting with friends and teams on Discord.
They believe that although Web3 applications are still in the early stages of development, the transition from the existing Internet to Web3 must be an inevitable trend.
"Perhaps when we look back many years later, this is an Internet revolution. But many people who are currently at the center of the storm do not realize that they have actually become a part of driving this change." Kevin said. “More people will join in the future.”
Compared with the mature Web2, Web3 is like a piece of white paper that has just been unfolded, and almost everyone is standing on the same starting line.
Faced with this new and complex knowledge system, young people who are "newborn calves" seem to have a natural advantage. At the same time, this also makes many "middle-aged and elderly people" in science and technology feel an invisible sense of crisis.
"I feel really old lately, and I don't understand more and more new concepts and models. Every time I see an article about Web3, I feel like I'm looking at a world that is both relevant and irrelevant to me." Alex, an engineer who has worked at Google for almost 7 years, told Silicon Star. "I wonder if after , when we watch the post-2000 generation playing Web3, it will be like our grandparents watching us play , Douyin, and . It's not that Web3 has no future, it's just that we have been eliminated by the times."
A week ago, Alex, who was born in the 1980s, officially registered a digital wallet, and began to read the white papers of Bitcoin and Ethereum in his spare time, and learn the knowledge of blockchain from scratch.
"To prove that I'm still young." He said half-jokingly and half-seriously.
Author: Juny; Editor: VickyXiao; Public account: Silicon Star People
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