Thought experiment:
Imagine Web3 succeeds completely.
Not partially.
Completely.
Now ask yourself what still depends on centralized companies behind the scenes.
Storage? Less than before.
Payments? Getting there.
Identity? Improving slowly.
But compute is still the awkward conversation.
$ARB helped make execution cheaper and more accessible through rollups, which pushed adoption forward.
$RSS3 is building around open information flow and decentralized content indexing, which becomes more important as platforms fragment.
Then there’s $FLT, which targets something deeper in the stack: where workloads actually execute. Fluence focusing on decentralized compute makes more sense the more AI tools, autonomous agents, and backend-heavy applications appear across Web3.
And $DYM caught my attention because modular ecosystems are changing how chains launch and coordinate. Infrastructure is becoming more specialized instead of one-size-fits-all.
The interesting part is these projects are solving entirely different problems, yet they all point toward the same direction:
An internet where critical infrastructure stops depending on a handful of centralized providers.
Still early.
Still messy.
But the architecture is getting more interesting.