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The World Is Changing In Front Of Our Eyes

Right now, the idea of the entire Internet reinventing may sound like some far-away digital utopia. But Web3 is driving new conversations — and generating lots of new money, particularly from crypto investors.

The Web3 movement has been helped along by the rise of NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, which are digital collectables and other online files that can be bought and sold with cryptocurrency.

Trying to explain Web3 can be exasperating since it's a term that takes on a slightly different shape depending on who is defining it but that's the case with all new frontiers of technology.

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People are talking about Web3. Is it the Internet of the future or just a buzzword?

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