I think people still underestimate how inevitable Web3 has become.
Two years ago, people called Web3 dead.
VCs pulled out, users left, and even dev counts dropped double digits.
But I kept tracking the infra with compute, credit, coordination, and science.
And I’ve never been more convinced that Web3 is maturing.
Every major pillar of Web3 is showing real traction. 👇
1️⃣ Compute
@cysic_xyz went from paper to production in under a year.
- GPU-accelerated ZK proof generation now reaches up to 12x faster proving times compared to CPU-based systems.
- Integrated with PyTorch & TensorFlow, meaning real ML workloads can now be verified onchain.
- Its Verifiable AI testnet crossed >20K active nodes and over 1.2M proofs generated.
That’s infra scaling in real time.
2️⃣ DeFi thrives
- Protocols like
@HyperliquidX proved what real yield means.
- It’s doing $2B+ daily trading volume with deep onchain liquidity.
- MegaETH crossed 36x on ICO, and its native dapps are already generating real revenue even before mainnet.
Social is finally onchain and working
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@farcaster_xyz reached >450K active users, a 5x growth in under a year.
- People are paying millions in gas fees to post, mint, and engage and nobody’s complaining because they actually own the graph.
That’s retention, the hardest metric in any social product.
3️⃣ Real yield, real users
@MMTFinance flipped the DeFi script.
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$MMT liquidity pools processed >$60M in total volume since v2 launch.
- Dynamic rate oracles stabilized yields around 7–9% APR with zero emissions.
- Institutional credit module in pilot with 4 Web3-native borrowers.
This is credit markets with verifiable risk pricing.
4️⃣ Infra goes on
- The average Ethereum L2 now clears >50M transactions/month, while Solana processes >30B in the same period.
- Transaction costs are near zero, confirmation times instant, and UX finally abstracted away from seed phrases.
Research ownership went onchain
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@BioProtocol took scientific publishing from PDFs to IP tokens.
- Over 10K researchers onboarded, 120+ IPs minted, and $1.8M+ distributed through onchain grants.
- Each experiment, license, and collaboration with transparent and verifiable.
Each step is verifiable, programmable, and community-owned.
When you zoom out, the trend is clear:
🔹 Onchain activity is up 3.5x YoY across verifiable compute and agent frameworks.
🔹 Web3 developer count hit >32K active contributors this quarter (Electric Capital 2025).
🔹 Institutional filings for blockchain-based IP, data, and finance products are accelerating.
The noise fades, but progress compounds.
I’ve seen enough metrics to stop doubting Web3 is no longer an experiment.
It’s an inevitable migration from trusted systems to verifiable ones.