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. https://web4bulletin.com/topics/comparative-essay/ 2026-04-10T00:00:00.000Z https://web4bulletin.com/articles/from-web3-to-web4-agentic-infrastructure-is-the-real-next-layer/ 2026-04-10T00:00:00.000Z 2026-04-10T00:00:00.000Z Margot Halloran

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.