Zerion’s CMO reveals the most promising products & trends in Web3 for 2023-2024
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🧞♂️ Exclusive Interview with Zerion's CMO: Unveiling the most promising products & most funded industries for the next year
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This is an exclusive interview with Alex Guy, the CMO at Zerion, who shared his insights on the upcoming trends. Zerion is known as a Web3 wallet and portfolio management solution that has already built a functional portfolio tracker.
— What are the most promising Web3 products right now?
Personally, I’m very bullish on a few trends:
Web3 Social
Of course, there’s Lens Protocol that stands out as a leading player in the emerging field of Web3 social platforms. And then we also have Farcaster, an open protocol for a decentralized social network. Both of them are really great and they’re doing awesome things in the industry.
Decentralized Identity
It’s a crucial aspect of Web3, and at Zerion we are very close with the team called Disco that’s at the forefront of this trend. It empowers users to experience nuanced Web3 reputation linked to public identifiers across chains and Web2, all while preserving privacy and user autonomy.
Educational Projects
Additionally, I think we as an industry still need to do a better job at educating new users about all the possibilities in the Web3 space.
One social platform that shows great promise in this regard is Phi Land. It’s built on ENS in a quest format and enables easy visualization of on-chain identities; users can build their own Web3 worlds using objects to display their interaction, on-chain progress, personal taste, and social graph.
— Which industries will be the most funded in 2023-2024?
There is a growing interest in Web2 and traditional sectors like fashion and retail, as they explore opportunities to establish stronger connections with their consumers through Web3 initiatives. Notably, Louis Vuitton recently introduced its exclusive product as a digital collectible or there’s Tommy Hilfiger who launched his NFT.
So, if I were a venture capitalist, my focus would be on identifying companies that excel in the digital fashion sector, just like DRESSX and Etam.
If these companies are already successful in the digital fashion industry, it indicates the presence of significant financial resources. This can serve as a testament to the viability and profitability of the sector, making it an attractive opportunity for potential investors.
— What will happen to Web3 in 3 years?
There are primarily wallet-based trends that are becoming a reality.
First, I think that multichain will remain under the hood. From a user perspective a lot of that technical asset management will be extrapolated in the way the user won't necessarily understand that they’re buying something on Polygon or on Optimism. For example, when you collect a Mirror post, it’s on Optimism, but I believe if you didn’t know it was on Optimism, you wouldn’t know or think much about it.
And a thing which is very related to that is the ability for people's identity, both on-chain and off-chain identity, to seamlessly merge within a wallet. It is highly likely that verifiable credentials and other elements in the decentralized identity space will coexist with tokens. And it all will be a place where you can choose and manage what, where, and how you distribute.
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