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This article was originally written by IPFS Force Zone According to the definition of American anthropologist Geertz, "involution" refers to the phenomenon that a social or cultural model stagnates or cannot be transformed into another advanced model after reaching a certain form at a certain stage of development. Taking daily work as an example, if a programmer only implements simple business-level functions and never leaves his comfort zone to take on more responsibilities, then after so many years, the programmer's technical level will not improve at all and will eventually be eliminated by the times. Many people are talking about blockchain now. In major cities, there are offline exchanges on the topic of blockchain every week, but there are few technical exchanges on the Internet. The reason is simple. Today, all ecological niches of the Internet have been monopolized by giants, and it is difficult for ordinary entrepreneurs to compete with them. However, the times are constantly developing. Blockchain has brought new changes to the relationship between productivity, and it will also become an important cornerstone of the Web3.0 era. Looking back at the history of the Internet, the continuous rise of the Nasdaq index proves that the Internet technology industry is becoming more and more prosperous: in the 1990s, it was the Web 1.0 era, and we could only browse information on the Internet platform; after 2000, the Internet entered the Web 2.0 era, and users could interact with the Internet, such as Facebook, Google, etc. Every change in Internet technology will give birth to a group of great companies. But technology is still developing, from the Web 2.0 era to the Web 3.0 era, and the most important support is blockchain. In October 2008, Satoshi Nakamoto published the Bitcoin white paper, an anonymous, decentralized and secure peer-to-peer payment system. Many people have felt the charm of Bitcoin, and the blockchain technology is behind it. Blockchain is not just a financial tool. In 2014, Ethereum was born. Its biggest change was to make blockchain programmable, making it possible to apply blockchain to business. In 2020, with the launch of the Filecoin mainnet, the auction of the Polkadot parachain slots, and the major progress of ETH 2.0, blockchain is moving from a single to a diversified one and the infrastructure is gradually improving. The Web3.0 blockchain infrastructure layout includes the basic network layer, protocol layer, middle stack and DApps. If we compare the new generation of the Internet to a building, there are people laying the foundation, people working on the water and electricity supply system, and people working on the floor and tiles. It can be seen that this building is being built step by step. But where is the application of blockchain? Some people say DeFi, decentralized finance. The token economy of blockchain naturally has financial attributes. In fact, DeFi has been born since the emergence of Bitcoin to solve the problem of cross-border payments. This year, DeFi has attracted market attention because of the launch of liquidity mining. NFT (non-homogeneous token) is also a very interesting sector, such as game props, artworks, collectibles, etc. However, the users of these applications are still the existing users of the crypto asset market, and have not formed a large-scale effect to attract Internet users to participate. In other words, the blockchain industry is still in a state of involution and has not yet achieved a breakthrough. Data is an important tool for blockchain to break out of the phenomenon of involution. Data is the means of production in the new era and the new oil for scientific and technological development. The development of artificial intelligence is inseparable from huge amounts of data, and the importance of data is becoming increasingly prominent. As a distributed ledger technology, blockchain can ensure the openness, transparency and immutability of data, thereby achieving secure storage, confirmation of ownership and value circulation of data. At the market level, there is a huge demand, such as contract bills, data traceability, and commercial data storage in various industries. One of the things that blockchain is often criticized for is the limited block capacity, but Filecoin allows data to be stored off-chain, and the validity of data storage is guaranteed on-chain through proof of replication and proof of time and space. This move undoubtedly expands the boundaries of blockchain's ability to store data, allowing it to truly advance into commercial applications and become a driving force for blockchain to break out of the phenomenon of involution. The process from Web2.0 to Web3.0 is both a challenge and a multitude of opportunities. Ambitious people should actively look for a track that suits them and break the phenomenon of involution in their careers. Statement: This article is an original article from IPFS Force District. The copyright belongs to IPFS Force District. It may not be reproduced without authorization. Violators will be held accountable according to law.
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