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Jul 5 9 tweets 3 min read
The future of the browser 🧵

Right now, Web 3 wallets like MetaMask plug into DeFi applications.

In the future, they’ll plug into every website in the world.
2/ Websites are broken.

Your personal data, credit cards, address, birthday, email, passwords, and more are stored on hundreds of private databases.

This creates a honeypot for hackers.
3/ Soon we'll use a stablecoin like USDC through a Web 3 wallet like MetaMask to make e-commerce purchases.

This is far more efficient and secure than creating new accounts on every website.

NFTs will make it interesting...
4/ Let's use Nike as an example for this.

Instead of creating an account on Nike, you'll just sync with your crypto wallet.

When you buy a new pair of Nikes, Nike will send you the physical shoe AND they’ll drop an NFT of the shoe into your wallet.
5/ And that’s where it gets interesting.

In a metaverse-driven world, we will all have two closets: your physical closet and your digital closet.

You’ll be able to port your Nike NFT into your metaverse game so you can actually wear them.
6/ Another benefit of this is that these NFTs will turn your physical goods into more efficient financial assets.

Right now, if you have $10,000 worth of collectibles, it’s very tough to turn them into productive assets.

You’d have to sell them to make money.
7/ But when you own the NFT of those collectibles, you'll be able to take loans out against those collectibles.

Look at what @OnRallyRd has done turning physical assets into digital assets.
@OnRallyRd 8/ Why will major apparel brands do this?

a) More revenue (5-10% of every secondary sale)

b) Furthers brand culture

c) Verifiable supply of sneakers makes them more valuable

d) Custom events for the brand's NFT holders
@OnRallyRd 9/ Web 3-driven browsers are a win-win-win.

For consumers, it’s more efficient and secure.

For brands, it drives more revenue and brand loyalty.

For crypto, crypto-driven e-commerce will give hundreds of millions of non-crypto users their first NFTs.

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