Although there is no shortage of specialized platforms in web3, many of them still work in silos, focused on a single aspect – an exchange, banking, cards, decentralized trade, etc. – without integrating with the others. Independent served decentralized fairs such as Uniswap, the Ethereum-based AMM (automated market maker); Curve Finance, a Stablecoin-oriented Dex; And Dydx, a low-2-decentralized forever trading platform, are all effective in itself. Platforms such as Aave and Compound Excel in offering services such as interest, loans and savings. Aave is an autonomous credit and loan protocol and the equally well-known connection offers interest-earning loans and borrowing. Wallets such as Metamask and Phantom are popular and are focused on access, identity and possession.
Then there are crypto cards such as crypto.com and binance card. Crypto.com offers visa cards, cashback in CRO and setting up functions, and Binance enables users to pass on crypto via a visa card. Yet these services remain silent.
Fully integrated experiences are crucial for the acceptance of Web3
Although a much more challenging to achieve, a fully integrated experience is crucial for full user satisfaction. Gleec was founded in 2015 as an extensive blockchain -ecosystem that has a goal to secure and simplify digital asset management, so that various services are combined in a coherent experience.
Defi -ecosystems make efforts to create bridges, and some of the Dapps who run on them try to cover everything, but many are still quiet. The evolution of Defi version 1 (Defi V1) to Defi V2 has promising for the web3 landscape and users. The first version was characterized by highly stimulated ecosystems and did not offer -sustainable yields that have not maintained user interest due to rising security risks and decreasing returns. Although innovative, the first offer often resulted in complicated, monolithic structures that were difficult to navigate. Cross-chain bridges are intended to overcome the inherent restrictions of Siled Networks, but they are far from immune to vulnerabilities, such as non-cuddled smart contracts, unsecured private key management and upgrading processes, uninhibited validator sets, dependence, etc.
The multitude of Layer-2 block chains on Ethereum reflects efforts to overcome silos. Many of them are EVM-compatible, so that users can implement contracts and assets in chains with minimal friction and are not necessary to rebuild everything. L2s try to improve Ethereum in terms of speed, privacy, costs or scalability. However, paradoxically, the adjustments can make the chain even more isolated and it becomes more difficult for users to find out how and where things can be achieved. It is also a challenge for developers to determine on which chain they should build. If they succeed in building a faster and cheaper blockchain, it might be less safe with lower liquidity and fewer users.
Eliminating the need to search for one app after the other
Although many Siled applications are effective in themselves, the user is left to look for a different request for each extra question. On Gleec, the user can benefit from integrated blockchain infrastructure, crypto cards, centralized and decentralized trade fairs, secure communication, bank solutions and full regulatory compliance. The safe, licensed infrastructure also feeds Raphael Coin, a cryptocurrency that makes fractional ownership possible of a Renaissance artwork that has recently been rediscovered by Dorotheum, founded a historic auction house in the 18th century.
The independent blockchain infrastructure has a delayed consensus mechanism of the work (DPOW), which improves security by using Bitcoin’s Hashing power to notarify blocks, make attacks on Gleec much more expensive. The ecosystem includes a crypto-friendly visa card for crypto spending, a coded communication app), a DEX, a BTC exchange for digital asset trade and GLEEC payment, with which you can create an IBAN directly within the exchange for fiat-to-crypto integration. The BTC Exchange is a centralized trading platform that offers a wide range of trading couples, Fiat integrations and advanced trade functions. The Dex (also a non-right wallet) makes peer-to-peer cryptocurrency trade possible, giving users full control over their assets.
Causes and effects of web3 fragmentation
Siled applications lead to liquidity fragmentation, in which a user holds tokens on different block chains, experiences problems if they want to use them all in one chain. They first have to exchange or bridge assets from arbitrum or basic optimism (for example), pay high transaction costs and invest considerable efforts to find out complex procedures. This takes a lot of time, and concepts such as pre-commissioning gas drive non-technical users away.
Inefficiencies in liquidity management discourage potential users from using daps. Moreover, Web3 fragmentation is to tap the value and hinder the growth of a very lucrative industry. Technological incompatibility is one of the root causes of fragmentation. This direct assessment of decentralized ecosystems damages user experience and creates problems for developers, such as dismissals. Inefficiencies are powered by the need to build products and services such as loans, DEXs, Stablecoin minting, etc., about ecosystems in an environment that requires their replication with an exponential pace. Developers focus on replying a few successful use cases in different ecosystems instead of looking for integration and cannot afford to pay so much attention as needed to products that can make Web3 more attractive to regular users.
The activity would be higher if users did not need multiple accounts or gastokens and had to bridge funds manually for cross-chain activities. Moreover, projects suffer from non -realized innovation because they cannot build on a maximum decentralized and scalable base layer.
Web3 inefficiency in figures
The total VC financing of the crypto industry reached a peak at $ 11 billion in Q1 of 2022, but then dropped and only started to rise again at the beginning of 2024. In the first quarter of 2025 it reached $ 4.8 billion, but is still below the $ 6.5 billion of the Q3/2022 level. Although user numbers increase in line with rising investments, the growth of ecosystem is stagnating when you insulate different chains to look at their popularity. Only Solana and a few Ethereum L2S experienced growth in the first half of 2024, to support the view that fragmentation has become more pronounced and that the established ecosystems mainly attract users, which stimulates fragmentation. Solutions such as Gleec will not solve the Web3 fragmentation crisis on its own, but their adoption is a step in the right direction.
