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Indian crypto and blockchain startups are reimagining how the web works

Regulatory nervousness could slightly ease on the face of SaaS, gaming, social media applications based on crypto

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Deepsekhar ChoudhuryNamit Gupta Bengaluru/New Delhi
What economic activities are cryptocurrencies backed by? This question has been the single biggest refrain among crypto naysayers over the past decade – be it regulators around the world or veteran investors like Warren Buffett. 

But that may be changing soon. A new wave of crypto startups are now building out the infrastructure of Web3, an internet which they say will be as big a departure as it was between Web1 – the static web pages of the 1990s – and Web2 – when social networks and mobile apps came about. 

More importantly, a slew of Indian startups like Biconomy,

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