Web3 Tycoons Shift Collectively to Web4: What Exactly is Web4?
After the Spring Festival in 2026, the festive atmosphere of the Year of the Fire Horse had not yet completely faded, but the entire Web3 community was suddenly swept by a brand new trend, instantly breaking the silence before the festival. In the previous months, the core debates in the industry had always revolved around a few fixed topics: which Layer2 track could first achieve production-level scalability to truly solve the pain points of Ethereum congestion and high Gas fees; why the path to RWA (Real World Asset tokenization) is so difficult, is it regulatory hurdles, technical bottlenecks, or insufficient ecological collaboration; whether the combination of AI and blockchain is about one leveraging the other's popularity, is it that AI needs the decentralized trust of blockchain, or does Web3 need AI to solve practical challenges.