Vitalik Buterin on “My first impressions of Web3”

Good points about lack of cryptography in the current standards, but the fix there seems to be a function of profit: as long as NFT resales are up & to the right evidently security doesn’t matter

The rise of platforms like OpenSea are interesting because the solution seems to be disenfranchisement: if Chrome/iOS/Android had direct node access we wouldn’t need the OpenSea API calls to display the NFT images. But then you’re giving even more power to existing Google and Apple platforms.

The web3 platform wars begun have they…