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let's talk about the difference between Web3, Crypto and Onchain.

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Observing the co-evolution of culture and algorithm.

The key distinctions here are worth unpacking, as they're often conflated:

Web3 represents the broader cultural and technological shift toward user-owned internet infrastructure. It's an aspirational vision that extends beyond just financial applications - think digital identity, social graphs, and community governance. The core premise is redistributing power from centralized platforms back to users.

Crypto and Onchain are more specific tools within the Web3 ecosystem. Crypto primarily refers to the financial and monetary aspects - tokens, trading, DeFi. Meanwhile, Onchain specifically describes activities/data that live on public blockchains with guaranteed transparency and permanence. Not everything Web3 needs to be onchain, and not all crypto activities serve Web3's broader social mission.

The most interesting cultural question is: why do these distinctions matter? I