​TON Sites as a Web3 industry standard. Currently, the world | TON Community

​TON Sites as a Web3 industry standard.

Currently, the world is going crazy for Web3 and the capabilities it’s bringing to the world.

However, current Web3 applications deployed on Ethereum and other popular networks can still be considered as semi-centralized entities due to the high concentration of intermediary service providers.

The industry needs to choose another standard, and TON Sites services are a perfect example of true Web3 service applications.

What is Web3 and why hasn’t it still reached its perfect state?

Web3 is actually a pretty ambiguous term that refers to the internet of the third generation. Web3 will create a Web 2.0 environment with services comparable to Facebook and Google — but decentralized.

A perfect example of a Web3 service is nonfungible tokens (NFT). Most people think of NFTs as images and digital art that store their data on-chain. However, this is only partially true.

Most NFTs that function on-chain store a link instead of an image.

This link leads you to a centralized data point. Contrary to what many believe, the art displayed on popular NFT marketplace OpenSea is not located on the Ethereum blockchain — it’s kept on centralized servers.

Thus, most of the art that is currently circulating on-chain is in fact a combination of URLs that don’t store images on-chain — contrary to the tenets of Web3.

As a result, such an architectural approach creates a strong dependence on centralized data providers, such as Amazon. These data providers could potentially go offline at any moment, meaning that the data and the NFT art would be lost forever.

Why does the TON Sites service take a different approach to data ownership and creation?

From a technical perspective, TON Sites are similar to usual websites, but they’re accessed through the TON blockchain, which is an overlay network atop the internet.

Traffic in the new decentralized TON internet will pass through The Open Network’s nodes, which have a new ADNL protocol, meaning that data will never be stored by a single entity.

This creates a long-lasting relationship with various NFT services by enabling creators and artists to be completely sure that all of their data (if needed) could be further stored securely within the decentralized TON network once NFTs are minted on the blockchain.

This system will be completely decentralized and censorship-resistant, which was Web3’s initial intention.