Web 3.0, the next generation of the internet, is aimed at facilitating the unrestricted sharing of virtual data without any centralized authority. Shareholders as well as executives have been talking most about Web3, which encompasses cutting-edge technologies such as Cryptocurrencies, blockchains, NFTs, as well as the Metaverse. Chief executive officers and other high-ranking corporate figures across industries are discussing and discussing the potential impacts of Web3 on their daily operations and the advantages it may provide. Over $3.8 billion US Dollars has already been invested in enterprises this year in the Web3 industry, which comprises a wide range of augmented reality capabilities.

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Both Web3 and the Metaverse depend on one another greatly. Even though they are conceptually distinct, Web3 as well as the Metaverse are interdependent environments. Their synergistic friendship stems from their shared technological background. The top 5 Web3 based companies throughout the globe are explored in this article.

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Following are five of the world's most successful Web3-based companies:

        1. Terra

Established in the North Korean capital of Seoul in 2018, Terra is a decentralized financial system. Customers are given the option of transacting in a Cryptocurrency that has a stable value and can be utilized for a variety of reasons, including payments. It serves as a great platform for decentralized financial applications and offers a decentralized asset whose value comes from transaction fees received on the Terra network. Payments made using the token may be made in bitcoin on e-commerce sites that support it.

        2. Braintrust

The initial decentralized Web3 talent community, Braintrust links top-tier organizations with qualified, pre-screened knowledge employees. Braintrust is owned and operated by its user base, so it is constantly responsive to their demands rather than those of a faceless business. The rapid influx of both talent and new employment may be attributed to the fact that Braintrust's group of knowledge workers as well as collaborators can acquire ownership as well as management of the network by contributing to it and its development in exchange for the network's native BTRST token. People from all around the globe contribute to Braintrust's knowledge base and projects, making the total number of members well over 700,000. Over a thousand of the world's largest corporations rely on Braintrust, comprising household names like Nestle, Porsche, Atlassian, Goldman Sachs, as well as Nike.

        3. Chaingrep

Chaingrep was launched by Rosco Kalis in 2022 as a search engine dedicated to on-chain transactions as well as digital commodities. To use an analogy, think of it as a "block explorer" but updated for the present day. As more individuals who aren't tech-savvy begin utilizing Web3 platforms, it will be more important for such platforms to enable it simple and straightforward to interpret the data being generated by blockchains. Block explorers haven't been updated in years, despite the widespread use of blockchains like Ethereum. If existing block explorers, like Etherscan, were to abstract many of its features and remove all the extraneous noise, the on-chain information-gathering experience would be much enhanced. For this reason, Chaingrep developed an Etherscan that anybody may use.

        4. OpenSea

New York City-based entrepreneurs Devin Finzer and Alex Atallahis launched OpenSea in 2017 as the world's first and biggest peer-to-peer marketplace for Non-Fungible Tokens. NFTs may be used for a wide variety of purposes, including as the trading of collectibles, in-game assets, domain names, digital artwork, and more. It is a free and accessible Web3 marketplace where users may learn about NFTs as well as make new connections with other users to buy and trade NFTs. OpenSea is backed by Blockchain Capital, 1Confirmation, YCombinator, Coinbase Ventures, and Founders Fund, and has employees with histories at Stanford, Pinterest, as well as Google.

        5. Huddle01

In 2020, Ayush Ranjan launched the video chat platform Huddle01. Their study proposes a decentralized video calling architecture as a means to lessen the impact of network latency on video conferences. The company's goal is to be first to market with Web3 actual-time communications. A central tenet of the movement is that everybody needs their personal online space for unfettered self-expression.

        6. Immutable

With Immutable X, the first scaling solution for Non-Fungible Tokens that does not affect the security or decentralization of Ethereum, the globe's leading public blockchain, Immutable is expanding the reach of the digital assets of the globe. Immutable was created in 2018 by James Ferguson, Robbie Ferguson, and Alex Connolly in Sydney, Australia to power the next generation of Web3 games. As of March 2022, Immutable, a company funded by Animoca, was valued at $3.5 billion, after having received $279.8 million in fundraising over five rounds.

The Bottomline

With the release of Web 3.0, the Semantic Web, in its conceptualized form when Berners-Lee first envisioned it in 2001, has seen tremendous development. The next stage in the development of the internet is currently envisioned as consisting of a decentralized ecosystem that is based on blockchain technology. This will indeed mark a departure from the hierarchical gigantic platforms and companies that now dominate the environment in its present incarnation.

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