--- title: Can Web3 beat public cloud? | daily.dev description: Web3 sees the internet becoming a network of applications (distributed apps, or dApps), written as smart contracts, running on a public blockchain. At its core... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/can-web3-beat-public-cloud--kfnhvw9rx twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Can Web3 beat public cloud? | daily.dev og:description: Web3 sees the internet becoming a network of applications (distributed apps, or dApps), written as smart contracts, running on a public blockchain. At its core... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/can-web3-beat-public-cloud--kfnhvw9rx og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/KFNhVW9RX.png og:image:alt: Can Web3 beat public cloud? og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Can Web3 beat public cloud? **[Scott Logic](https://daily.dev/sources/scottlogic)** · 18 min read · 14 upvotes · 2 comments ## Summary Web3 sees the internet becoming a network of applications (distributed apps, or dApps), written as smart contracts, running on a public blockchain. At its core it uses blockchain technology, with the promise of being decentralised, permissionless and trustless. We’ll return to these at various points within this blog post. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@qorbani** · 1 upvotes > It is long but worth reading 👌 I went through the same challenges when I started Web3 development. It is a great blog for someone who wants to start this journey to level the expectation and understand lots of misinformation around beliefs about Web3!!! **@mn0o7** · 0 upvotes > Great article --- Tags: [#aws](https://daily.dev/tags/aws), [#blockchain](https://daily.dev/tags/blockchain), [#web3](https://daily.dev/tags/web3), [#aws-lambda](https://daily.dev/tags/aws-lambda), [#ethereum](https://daily.dev/tags/ethereum), [#aws-s3](https://daily.dev/tags/aws-s3) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/can-web3-beat-public-cloud--kfnhvw9rx) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Can Web3 beat public cloud?","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/can-web3-beat-public-cloud--kfnhvw9rx","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/can-web3-beat-public-cloud--kfnhvw9rx"},"datePublished":"2022-10-31T13:53:12.272Z","dateModified":"2022-10-31T13:53:12.141Z","description":"Web3 sees the internet becoming a network of applications (distributed apps, or dApps), written as smart contracts, running on a public blockchain. 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