{"id":10567,"date":"2022-03-14T11:06:37","date_gmt":"2022-03-14T11:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/TheNextWeb=1382460"},"modified":"2022-03-14T11:06:37","modified_gmt":"2022-03-14T11:06:37","slug":"what-the-hell-is-a-web3-browser-and-what-does-it-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/?p=10567","title":{"rendered":"What the hell is a Web3 browser? And what does it do?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It\u2019s hard to take a few breaths on the internet without hearing about Web3<\/a> lately.<\/p>\n

However, it\u2019s not as accessible or ubiquitous as it might sound. Some Web3 properties and services require you to understand the moving parts involved, such as your cryptocurrency<\/a> wallet, dApps (decentralized apps like the OpenSea NFT marketplace), and the blockchain they operate on.<\/p>\n

While this may sound complex (and some of it is<\/em>), large chunks of Web3 experiences are still built on open-web technologies, and you can access them through a good ol\u2019 browser.<\/p>\n

In today\u2019s world (the not-quite-Web3 world), when we type out a website\u2019s address, we rely on our browsers to handle all the complex back-end stuff and take us to our destination in cyberspace.<\/p>\n

While we still use the same apps to access Web3, we have to do a fair bit of legwork (from having a wallet to access the right protocol) to experience the decentralized world. Ideally, all of that should be handled by those browsers, but that\u2019s not the case just yet.<\/p>\n

To get an insider\u2019s perspective about integrating these technologies, we spoke to people at various companies building Web3 browsers and standards \u2014 from the challenges of building for a new paradigm of connected technology, to what the future of browsing the web looks like.<\/p>\n

Before we explore all that in detail, we will use some terms repeatedly in this story. You\u2019ll want to spend a minute familiarizing yourself with them, so I\u2019ve included brief (and possibly oversimplified) explanations for some of them here. Let\u2019s go.<\/p>\n

A few essential Web3 concepts<\/h2>\n

Wallet:<\/strong> Your cryptocurrency wallet where you store different tokens such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Matic.<\/p>\n

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<\/i><\/a>A wallet will show you the tokens you own and let you send them to others.<\/figcaption>