What’s a web3 sector that took too long or hasn’t lived up to the hype? 

Enough so that you got disillusioned and moved on?

For me it’s tokenized real world assets.

For others, it’s self sovereign identity, DAO coordination, merchant payments, governance, scalability, etc

Prediction markets. Augur blew my mind when I first learned about it but it (and the whole sector) kind of hasn’t gone anywhere :(

Live in Venice beach / co-founder of NewAtlantis, an ocean DeSci  project focused on quantifying marine biodiversity using open multi-omics 

Good one to add to the list. 👌 Such a great crypto use case and we have polymarket and not much else.

All while sports betting / etc is growing like crazy!

Polymarket got effectively banned from the US by the CFTC

Sports betting growing because there is a legal framework for it

+1 to prediction markets

cool crypto use-case, but i remain skeptical of their ability to turn into something greater than a niche product. 

today, both Web2 and Web3 prediction markets support this ^ claim. 

maybe way down the line they’ll explode, but idk what the catalyst would be