- What are the benefits of web 3.0 (decentralized internet)?
Web 3.0 has both centralized websites and decentralized websites and dapps. With Web 3.0 you have different websites on the internet that now can have their own cryptocurrencies, their own economic and financial incentive model that were built on Ethereum, EOS, NEO or some other smart contract platform giving a whole new dynamic to the internet allowing small companies and start ups to compete against the large corporations for example by using economic incentives to attract early adopters to compete against the giants because everyone wants to make money.
- What is a token?
Tokens are a deployment of smart contracts on the Ethereum blockchain or other smart contract platforms that represent their own cryptocurrencies. Ethereum is a coin and all other cryptocurrencies on top of Ethereum blockchain are tokens.
- How do you create a token on Ethereum?
A token can be created by using solidity and deploying a smart contract on the Ethereum blockchain or other smart contract platforms by using one of the token standards which will be executed by the EVM on the blockchain. Such as the most popular token standard being ERC-20 which is referred to as a fungible token which means all the tokens are the same, no difference and all have the same values. There are also non-fungible tokens called NFT’s which are used in games to represent different unique items which use two different standards being ERC721 and ERC1155.