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What do you think about the current Web 3.0 field?
Aoki Makoto (hereinafter Aoki): The phrase "The next billion users" is currently used frequently in the Web 3.0 industry. This means onboarding the next billion users to Web 3.0 products, and the question is how to naturally get users who have no knowledge of Web 3.0 to experience Web 3.0 and feel its value. I think Web 3.0 is in a transitional period in the sense of challenging social implementation, and rather than a Web 3.0 product for Web 3.0 users like in the past, I think the question is how to remove the difficulties unique to Web 3.0 and allow general users to naturally enjoy the benefits unique to Web 3.0.
One of the big attractions of Web 3.0 is that by not going through a centralized platform, service providers who provide value to the development of the platform can obtain a lot of incentives, and users who use it do not have to pay large intermediary fees.
However, as mentioned above, one of the challenges is the difficulty of the concept of wallets when interacting with Web 3.0 products, and how to change the negative impression that crypto assets and blockchains have in Japan.
What kind of appeal do you want to deliver through your projects and services, and what do you want to achieve?
Aoki: WebX has two main goals.
First, as the government is promoting Web 3.0 as one of its core policies, many major private companies are also accelerating their entry into the Web 3.0 market. Improvements are constantly being made in the environment surrounding crypto assets and Web 3.0, such as tax systems and regulations, and many examples of Web 3.0 social implementation have been born through the entry of private companies. Rather than viewing the Japanese Web 3.0 market as a speculative market, when viewed from the perspective of Web 3.0 mass adoption, Japan is a very attractive market. Although there is an abundance of such positive information, there are no opportunities to disseminate it to the world, so we hope to spread the appeal of the Japanese Web 3.0 market to the world through WebX.
It is also extremely difficult for Japanese Web 3.0 companies to enter the global market, and one of the reasons for this is that it costs hundreds of thousands of yen to participate in overseas conferences. If one of the largest Web 3.0 conferences in Asia is held in Japan, you can participate in a large conference at a fraction of the cost, and at the same time, many overseas projects can meet many Japanese companies.
WebX is a conference that connects Japan and the world, and Asia and the world, and we plan to continue expanding its scale in the future.
◉ Makoto Aoki
Director and CSO of CoinPost Inc. Representative Director of WebX
Has been involved in cryptocurrency-related businesses since 2017 and officially joined CoinPost in 2022. He currently leads the conference business as the founder of WebX and serves as CoinPost's CSO (Chief Strategy Officer).
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