{"id":657394,"date":"2025-03-16T18:05:11","date_gmt":"2025-03-16T15:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/web3-has-a-metadata-problem-and-its-not-going-away\/"},"modified":"2025-03-16T18:05:11","modified_gmt":"2025-03-16T15:05:11","slug":"web3-has-a-metadata-problem-and-its-not-going-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/web3-has-a-metadata-problem-and-its-not-going-away\/","title":{"rendered":"#Web3 has a metadata problem, and it\u2019s not going away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"float:right;margin:0 0 10px 15px;width:240px\">\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/images\/840_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy5jb2ludGVsZWdyYXBoLmNvbS91cGxvYWRzLzIwMjUtMDIvMDE5NTNjNmEtNWYxZS03YjdkLWE4ZjEtMzM2NTZkZjJhNWVm.jpg\" class=\"type:primaryImage\">\n                    <\/p>\n<p>As Web3 grows, its metadata problem intensifies, risking a global data security crisis. Can anonymity networks and new technologies protect users from AI-powered surveillance?<\/p>\n<p><p><em><strong>Opinion by: Casey Ford, PhD, researcher at Nym Technologies<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Web3 rolled in on the wave of decentralization. Decentralized <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>lications (DApps) grew by 74% in 2024 and individual wallets by 485%, with total value locked (TVL) in decentralized finance (DeFi) closing at a near-record high of $214 billion. The industry is also, however, heading straight for a state of capture if it does not wake up.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As Elon Musk has teased of placing the US Treasury on blockchain, however poorly thought out, the tides are turning as crypto is deregulated. But when they do, is Web3 ready to \u201cprotect [user] data,\u201d as Musk surrogates pledge? If not, we\u2019re all on the brink of a global data security crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Read more<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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Can anonymity networks and new technologies protect users from AI-powered surveillance? Opinion by: Casey Ford, PhD, researcher at Nym Technologies Web3 rolled in on the wave of decentralization. Decentralized applications (DApps) grew by 74% in 2024 and individual wallets by 485%, with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":657395,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/format=auto,onerror=redirect,quality=90,width=1200\/https:\/\/s3.cointelegraph.com\/uploads\/2025-02\/01953c6a-5f1e-7b7d-a8f1-33656df2a5ef","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[77337,74894,74863,79786,76582,93542,72366,5056,70934,72287],"class_list":["post-657394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-ai","tag-blockchain","tag-cryptocurrencies","tag-digital-asset","tag-digital-asset-management","tag-web3","tag-data","tag-encryption","tag-regulation","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/657395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}