Future of Web 3.0
1 billion users by 2027
Although crypto users currently form only a small percentage of the global population, the rise of Web3 is expected to hasten adoption rates.
If this trend holds, there could be 1 billion crypto users by 2026/27. That’s a 5x increase from current estimates of around 200 million crypto users.
As crypto relies on the internet, it’s reasonable to assume a substantial degree of positive correlation. But, as Web3 begins to take off, how might the rate of crypto adoption change?
Crypto adoption mirrors that of the internet
Woo said mass crypto adoption isn’t here yet, nor do the masses see it happening because human perception tends to process information linearly.
'Human nature is one that looks at things in a linear stance. So we’re not very good at looking at exponential growth, which is obviously what bitcoin is doing.'
On the question of why mass crypto adoption isn’t here yet, Woo said that asking that is the equivalent of an internet user in 1994 asking why no one uses the internet. In other words, adoption is happening right now.
How might Web3 fit into this?
'The result: a composable human-centric & privacy-preserving computing fabric for the next wave of the web.'
The term peer-to-peer is a big hint in terms of how cryptocurrency and blockchain technology fit into the picture.
If Web3 takes off, the logical outcome is that the internet and blockchain will become fully integrated with each other, thus potentially boosting crypto adoption exponentially to levels beyond even Woo’s expectations.
The current Bitcoin adoption rate is similar to that of the internet in 2005, meaning that today's early adopters are incredibly early –– by roughly 17 to 20 years.
By doing the math, the use of digital assets and Web3 could very well grow by a factor of 70x in the next 17 years to reach the current 5 billion internet users.
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