Web 2.0 brought us the "'Web as Platform,' where software applications are built upon the Web as opposed to upon the desktop,". Web 2.0 was largely driven by three core layers of innovation: mobile , social, and cloud . Web 3.0 is built largely on three new layers of technological innovation: edge computing , decentralized data networks, and artificial intelligence. Web 3.0 is being built on blockchain technology. Blockchain is an electronic distributed ledger. Distributed ledgers provide a digital record (such as asset ownership) that is maintained without a central authority. It is relatively faster in closing a transaction as the need for manual processing and authentication by intermediaries is eliminated as it deploys a distributed consensus. Moreover, as blockchain uses distributed consensus, it isn't easy to alter data on the system without alerting the entire network. This makes the system extremely secure. It should be noted...