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Comparative Essay

Pieces that sit between two category names and argue about the boundary. The Bulletin's comparative essays are the format we use to push back on naming collisions — Web3 vs Web4, AI-native vs agentic, MLOps vs AgentOps — without conceding that the labels are interchangeable.

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Comparative Essay

From Web3 to Web4: Why Agentic Infrastructure Is the Real Next Layer

Web3 was a financial-rail thesis. Web4 is an autonomy thesis. They are not the same category, and treating them as a continuation is the most common reason early-stage Web4 work gets miscategorized.

Margot Halloran·10 min read