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I work fulltime at a Web3 startup & have been for almost 5 years, and we're building a non-custodial smart contract wallet + everything else you need for web3 SDK & a trading card game using web3 tech. the b2b stuff is going great, tons and tons and tons of integrators and devs using our SDKs every day. the sentiment in the gaming world has always been pretty negative towards web3, so nothing feels different now ;)

large multinational brands are dropping nft collabs often right now - adidas, tons of high fashion, etc. & many other other big brands are working on them behind closed doors

i don't think it's going anywhere, and most people are just building out tech and infra

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Had to scroll 75% of the comments section to find an actual on topic answer and not just inane cryptoskeptic rants

The person you responded to is a bit of a skeptic. They wrote "i don't think it's going anywhere"

Not a native speaker, but I read that as it is here to stay, not that it is pointless.

Yes, that's quite an interesting little quirk of linguistics. It could mean 2 complete opposites: that either Web3 will be successful, or that it will be unsuccessful. Maybe it'll *get off the ground", or maybe not. Maybe it won't "go anywhere," who knows!

> the b2b stuff is going great, tons and tons and tons of integrators and devs using our SDKs every day.

But how much revenue is this pulling in? Are you profitable after 5 years?

Oh, no, someone has opened a hole in the space time continuum to 2021! (Based on the Adidas thing, anyway)

I mean, here's a couple from only the last few days: Louis Vuitton - https://ca.louisvuitton.com/eng-ca/stories/louis-vuitton-via Nike X EA Sports - https://twitter.com/dotSWOOSH/status/1677088133559508993 Mercedes Benz - https://twitter.com/MercedesBenzNXT/status/16635857206892052...

I don't doubt that most of the "NFT Drop" things are worthless money grabs, but my point is that the tech is still darling to tons of corpo execs, and so lots of people in the industry are still getting $$$ to make cool things :)

Trial projects.

What is Louis Vuitton's site doing? All CPUs at 100% load to get 2 FPS animation of a textured cube? It looks like a Flash site from the 1990s, but with far worse performance.

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