Explore the most promising blockchain and Web3 projects to follow in 2023. From decentralized storage solutions like Arweave and Pinata to innovative Layer 1 blockchains such as Internet Computer and Radix, this guide covers a range of technologies shaping the future of the internet. Discover projects in the metaverse, decentralized identity, and other decentralized services that are pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in the digital world.

Layer 1

$ICP Internet Computer: World Computer that provides a complete IT stack on which any online system or web3 service can be built in a fully decentralized form, 100% on-chain. ICP is the only blockchain with smart contracts that serve web experiences, create transactions on other chains, directly integrate with web2 APIs without oracles, and run 20,000x more efficiently. No centralized cloud. Simply powered by breakthrough Chain-key Cryptography.

$XRD Radix: DPOS L1 with SmartContract written with Scrypto langage.

$STX Stacks: SmartContracts and DApps over Bitcoin chain. SmartContract written with Clarity langage (the same used by ALGORAND).

Decentralized Storage

$AR Arweave: store documents and applications forever

Pinata IPFS storage

Metaverse

$OVR Over: The Future AR Metaverse, NFT Landowner.

Decentralized Identity

$UCO rchethic: Decentralized Identity by Uniris

UBI Proof Of Humanity

Ceramic Network no token, serie A Self.ID, ComposeDB, Passport (vote) by 3Box Labs

noox world Proof of Achievements in Your Soul Collect achievement badges as Soulbound NFTs and build your on-chain reputation

sismo The key primitive for web3 identities. Sismo is a modular protocol issuing ZK Badges for reputation portability and aggregation

Unstoppable Domains Own your identity in the digital world. Get started with a Web3 domain.

Other Decentralized Services

$PNK kleros: The Justice Protocol Kleros is a decentralized arbitration service for the disputes of the new economy.