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While these innovations seem futuristic, they currently reside in what industry insiders describe as early experimental stages—a phase dubbed Web 2.5. Tech analyst and macro economist Tasha Shea characterizes this as a crossover phase between the established Web 2.0 and the emerging Web 3.0, representing a hybrid approach that leverages the strengths of both.
Web 3.0 is often viewed as the next significant leap in the digital economy, one that promises decentralization, enhanced data ownership, and new modes of value exchange through blockchain technologies. To cross the “chasm” into mainstream adoption, Web 3.0 aims to bolster traditional business models with tokenization, digital assets, and more secure data management.