As public faith wanes for government organizations and private industries, many people now rely on self-sustaining networks of information. Often called P2P networks, these groups stand out from the crowd because they depend less on centrally-held systems to keep them functioning. What does this mean for investors? It means that you can capitalize on investment opportunities before anyone else does.

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Decentralization

Decentralization has been heralded as the next step in Internet evolution. Decentralizing nodes, protocols and applications will usher in a new era of freedom from centralized authority and power. This progression can be seen in Web 3-0 where it takes on the shape of decentralized protocols with associated governance tokens, DAOs (decentralized autonomous organizations) and DApps (decentralized apps). These structures alter the flow of finances, art ownership, currency distribution and everything else you could think up.

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DeFi

DeFi (Decentralized Finance) is the emerging sector of freedom-focused financial markets on cryptographic public ledgers. With this, it allows people to hold their own assets while they make various transactions such as earning, spending or saving. All at once we are introduced to a new form of free-market economics where there are no intermediaries or centralized actors providing regulations for DeFi.

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Web3

A third iteration of the internet where it runs off a machine-centric understanding of data; this will lead to what has been coined web 3. It will be a place where blockchain technology is at its forefront, creating new applications and tools for various fields such as finance or even digital assets. The fundamental element of Web 3 is the trustless collaboration and data ownership between all those who use it.

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Permissionless

Universally accessible and censorship resistant. Builders and users cannot be deplatformed.

• Unstoppable: the protocol cannot be stopped by anyone. It runs for as long as the underlying blockchain exists.
• Credibly neutral: the protocol is user-agnostic

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