Web3Gateways.com

Web 3 Gateways From Prime Web 3 Domains

Part of an IBM Partner Programme

Available to over 3 Million Subscribers

Background

Web3Gateways.com is operated by TradeDigitization.com which is an IBM Partner Programme.

The Interplanetary File System (IPFS) is a protocol and peer-to-peer (P2P) distributed network for storing and sharing data; the nodes within an IPFS network contribute to a distributed file system. IPFS is a key component in enabling a decentralized, distributed version of the web as compared to today’s centralized web model.

Today, IPFS has not yet reached the level of maturity of HTTP. For example, mainstream browsers do not yet support native IPFS networks and addressing. However, there are very clear benefits and advantages of using IPFS, and many companies have started to use it.

Why Web3Gateways.com?

Web3Gateways.com provides a bridge between the current Web 2.0 model and the new decentralized and trustless model of Web3. With Web3Gateways.com, customers can start leveraging IPFS and make content on IPFS easily accessible via HTTP. One shortcoming of IPFS’s content-based addressing is that hashes are difficult to remember.

To help alleviate this shortcoming, customers can use Web3Gateways.com to map IPFS content to a domain name

Web3Gateways.com allows customers to continue using HTTP while enjoying the benefits of IPFS.

The Internet has undergone massive changes in the last few years which has led to the emergence of Web 3. Web, the Internet of value,

Features of Web 3 include distributed ledgers, NFTs, and cross-platform metaverses. However, there are barriers to entry to accessing and using Web 3. Web 3 Gateways break down those barriers to entry from branded points, and help provide access to Web3 services.

Web 3 is a paradigm which is changing the Internet. Web 3 Gateways will help how Web3 will be enabled and accessed for end users.

Web 3 Gateways let you use Web 3 applications in your browser without having to install plugins or run nodes.

TDC provides a read-only, HTTP-accessible interface to the Interplanetary File System (IPFS)

Web 3 applications, also known as decentralized applications or DApps, represent the next evolution of internet applications. These applications operate on decentralized networks, a departure from the centralized models dominating Web 2.

Notable Quotes From Partners in the Parent TradeDigitization.com Programme

"Exciting Opportunity"

From TradeKey - The World's Largest B2B Marketplace

"We are looking forward to building a thriving partnership!"

From IBM - Global Leader in Blockchain , the cornerstone of Trade Digitization

Shared Resources

Web 3 gateways provide gateways to IPFS and provide resources for developers of web 3 applications. Web 3 gateways will also provide regional showcases for web 3 Saas providers

Why Regional Showcases?

SaaS businesses can provide Saas tailored to local markets. Also many organizations and agencies have a policy of buying local and Regional Showcases help in this regard.

Why Industry Showcases?

SaaS businesses can provide Saas tailored to specific industries and sectors.

The Importance of Dapps in Web 3

For a long time, software products have been a key factor in making services more accessible to the public. As an example, people who no longer had to outsource simple tasks like typing letters or basic book-keeping when Microsoft Office dropped.

Software is often limited by the structures and operational ethos of the organizations behind it. Also, many software products can experience downtime due to failures or attacks on a single point in their structure. This is quite common with Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) products.

Centralization in software delivery also puts users at the mercy of the small group in charge when it comes to sensitive issues like handling users’ personal information.

If it’s not stolen by hackers who want a ransom or plan on defrauding customers, it is being sold to people looking to advertise.

Software as we know it comes with numerous flaws, and this is where dApps come in.

Smart contracts are packaged as apps with specific use cases, hence the name dApps to mean decentralized applications.

dApps are available 24/7. Upgrades can be done without disrupting the protocol.

Available to over 3 Million Subscribers

Web3Gateways.com is available to over 3 million subscribers across the TDC network of sites, in compliance with GDPR.

Problems solved by Web 3 Gateways

The existing solutions for gateways to Web 3 do not have a large enough network to handle the growing amount of requests within the IPFS network

A clear example of this is when existing gateways have an outage. With too few gateways to handle the traffic, the result of this outage is pre-process transactions falling behind the blockchain they are accessing, thus leading to increased latency for the transaction, potentially leading to it failing.

Also, when decentralised application (Dapp) developers use IPFS to power their front end, it can lead to their entire application falling over.

This can lead to massive frustration from businesses and end users alike.

This can mean businesses not being able to collect revenue for products or services, thereby affecting those businesses to varying degrees, and breaking trust with end users who depend on the reliability of these services to manage their Web3 assets.

How does Web3Gateways.com help?

TDC has an advantage that hardly other company in this space has: a global network. Content fetched through our IPFS Gateway can be cached near users, allowing download latency in the milliseconds.

Compare this with up to seconds per asset using native IPFS.

A gateway sits between clients (such as your browser or mobile device) and a number of other systems and helps translate traffic from one protocol to another, so the systems powering an application required to handle the request can do so properly. But there are different types of gateways.

API Gateways accept API calls inbound to an application and aggregate the appropriate services to fulfill those requests and return a proper response to the end user.

As an example, you use an API gateway every time you watch Netflix. Gateways are a critical component of Web3.