‘Find the soul of Web3. One soul per person’ The undying desire for a better world (utopia) will continue to be the carrot that idealists pursue, even knowing that it is impossible to achieve. Happiness is found on the road and not in the destination, dreamers seem to convey

One such a romantic idealist seems to be the former billionaire Vitalik Buterin (to be clear, being utopian does not necessarily mean being poor). And in today’s world, the one in transition from Web2 to Web3, authority and happiness are still measured by economic success. Therefore, it is interesting to see what the founder of Ethereum wants to convey with his latest white-paper: Decentralized Society: Finding Web3’s Soul.

Web2, that of data suction, is still very much in vogue. The Big Tech fellowship still take advantage of the inertia that they accumulated in the last 17 years or so to continue extracting, capturing and dominating in the Intenet realm. The Web3, that of social relations of trust, of the ‘DeSoc’ (Decentralized Society) has not yet arrived. We are in the preliminary stage, in which the Web3 is used solely to exchange assets and make money with the ‘DeFi’ (Decentralized Finance). Not much more.

The current Web3 lacks the identity of the soul, of one soul per person. That soul that people in the physical world have. The upcoming Web3 will require validating commitments, credentials and affiliations of its participants as a certificate of existence, provenance and reputation.

The idealistic Vitalik wants to give back? the soul to the internet, if it ever had one. And for this he proposes Mandalorianly This is the way!: the SBT’s and a manifesto that sounds unreal. And it is good that it is so, because many things begin to be done when they are shared and others are asked for help and advice. Today’s Web3's functionality is a problem. It is necessary to focus on that to improve it. The white-paper implicitly proposes a simple and disruptive question: Why not imagine something better?

The authors feel in their guts that a little better is not enough (actual Web3). They do not advocate more decentralization but rather a better way of articulating it. They write with humility, passion, commitment and perseverance in their ideal.

That is why it is worth reading what they wrote and starting to walk the path to the future today.