Toward Web3 Applications: Easing the Access and Transition
Guangsheng Yu, Xu Wang, Qin Wang, Tingting Bi, YiFei Dong, Ren Ping Liu, Nektarios Georgalas, Andrew Reeves
IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems
Web3 is leading a wave of the next generation of web services that even many Web2 applications are keen to ride. However, the lack of Web3 background for Web2 developers hinders easy and effective access and transition. On the other hand, Web3 applications desire encouragement and advertisement from conventional Web2 companies and projects due to their low market shares. In this article, we propose a seamless transition framework that transits Web2 to Web3, named WebttCom [WebttCom stands for Web2 (two)–Web3 (three) Communicator], after exploring the connotation of Web3 and the key differences between Web2 and Web3 applications. We also provide a full-stack implementation as a use case to support the proposed framework, followed by performance evaluation and surveys with ∼1000 participants that show ∼80% positive and ∼20% neutral responses. We confirm that the proposed framework WebttCom addresses the defined research question, and the implementation well satisfies the framework WebttCom in terms of strong necessity, usability, and completeness based on the survey results.