Web3 was presented to the public as an answer to nothing though, Web1 with ticketed entry. Talk of the Metaverse ran parallel to an ignorance of the totalitarian fiction that accompanied it. Society only needed the Oasis because the real world had burned down.

Blockchain had the power to remove bureaucracy from government services, enabling data exchange between authorities and citizens without the paperwork. But it has now forever been tainted by grifters selling URL links to artwork to people with more money than sense.