Builder conversations from the Internet Computer edge.
The Third Web gathers long-form conversations from Arthur Falls around the Internet Computer ecosystem and adjacent blockchain projects. It suits listeners who want practical explanations of staking, canisters, decentralized frontends, no-code tools, and community infrastructure without a hype-first pitch.
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The Third Web is a technical interview and commentary feed led by Arthur Falls, with a strong focus on the Internet Computer and the projects forming around it. It sits in the space between ecosystem journalism, developer education, and community documentation. The show is conversational, but the conversations often get specific fast. Episodes cover staking, NNS voting, neurons, follow-target voting, and the practical meaning of locking ICP for governance participation. They also examine the platform claims behind the Internet Computer, especially ideas like web speed, canister-paid applications, and smart contracts that can behave more like full web services. Arthur tends to ask for concrete explanations. Guests answer with comparisons to familiar web apps and occasional simplified metaphors. The result is accessible, but not lightweight. A listener may hear about identity objects, finality, decentralized chat, tokenized growth, canister storage, transaction-history canisters, off-chain backups, and the dangers of failed upgrades in the same run of episodes. The show also tracks ecosystem culture. ICDevs, CycleDAO, New York conference activity, community podcasts, meetups, no-code builders, and DFINITY-adjacent projects all become part of the same wider picture. It pays attention to who is building, what they need, and how infrastructure decisions shape adoption. The Third Web is best for listeners who want blockchain discussed as software, governance, and community plumbing rather than as a price chart. It can be dense. That density is part of the point. The show preserves the assumptions, tradeoffs, and ambitions of a specific Web3 ecosystem as they are being argued through by builders, organizers, and early users.
Made for: The show is for blockchain developers, Internet Computer followers, Web3 founders, governance participants, and technically curious listeners who want implementation-level context. It also suits people tracking decentralized alternatives to big tech infrastructure.
What sets it apart: The Third Web stands out by staying close to builders and community operators rather than broad crypto headlines. Its value is in the practical texture: staking mechanics, canister architecture, identity systems, no-code tooling, and ecosystem governance explained by people working on them.
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A clear, practical introduction to ICP staking, neurons, and NNS governance.
Internet Computer Weekly starts 2022 with a grounded guide to ICP staking, NNS voting, and governance on the Internet Computer. John Weagley, a principal engineer at DFINITY who has recently moved to its research side, brings a background in compilers, functional programming,…
A returning host and a Concordium guest connect identity, Rust, compliance, and blockchain finality.
The Third Web returns with Arthur Falls noting that he has not recorded for the podcast in two or three years, then moves into a focused conversation with Benny Isambert about Concordium, a layer one blockchain platform aimed at the Rust community.
A practical, user-focused look at making Internet Computer dApps feel as immediate as the web.
"Web speed" frames Internet Computer dApps around a plain usability question: can people tell whether an app is running on a blockchain or on familiar cloud infrastructure?
A New York community conversation turns NFT events into a debate about DFINITY's possible strategic direction.
This Internet Computer Weekly episode uses a New York run of conferences as a way into the question of where the Internet Computer might fit next.
Austin Fathery frames ICDevs as a practical community route for funding Internet Computer infrastructure.
ICDevs comes across as a grounded attempt to build Internet Computer infrastructure from the community outward. Austin Fathery describes a newly minted nonprofit shaped less by foundation-style abundance than by real resource constraints, while Arthur Falls traces his path from…
Crypto, consciousness, and trust under pressure.
Healthcare trust, rebuilt block by block.
NFT culture after the mint button.
["Arthur hosts John Weagley and Diego Prats on Internet Computer Weekly to explain ICP staking, neurons, and NNS voting in simple English.", "John says the Internet Computer uses on-chain governance so stakeholders can steer changes like subnet movement, resource allocation, and other system updates through proposals.", "Diego breaks down the 1 ICP proposal deposit, the 3% governance threshold, liquid democracy, and the eight-year dissolve-delay bonus that can give a 10 ICP neuron 20 ICP of voting power.", "The episode also covers APY as a supply-and-demand outcome, the 80% staking rate, and the way ICP gets burned into cycles priced against special drawing rights through the IMF."]
Arthur Falls returns to The Third Web after two or three years and talks with Benny Isambert, Concordium's marketing lead, about a Rust-focused layer-1 blockchain built around compliance and identity.
Arthur Falls asks Manu Dribas and Diego Prats how the Internet Computer’s “web speed” claim compares with ordinary web applications, using targets of under 250 milliseconds for queries and about two seconds for updates.
Arthur Falls interviews Austin Fathery, founder of ICDevs, about building Internet Computer infrastructure through a US nonprofit instead of waiting on the core foundation.
The Third Web episode OpenChat Deep Dive features Arthur Falls interviewing software developer Matt Grogan about building OpenChat on the Internet Computer.
The Third Web's "Today New York, Tomorrow, the World" opens on Arthur Falls, Andrew Phillips, and Evan McFarland in New York for NFT NYC and the DFINITY-linked Iconic gallery show.
Arthur Falls interviews Moritz Fuller, an early DFINITY community organizer who joined in January 2018 and later built the Waterslide front end on the Internet Computer.
The Third Web interviews Hooman Shadab and Wyatt Benno of ICME about bringing no-code website and application building to the Internet Computer.
The Third Web examines Tonic Labs' NFT tools through Bob Boddeley's work on the ICP Guide and NFT Village.
Arthur Falls and Manu Drivers of the DFINITY Foundation map how canisters on separate Internet Computer subnets send asynchronous messages authenticated by threshold BLS signatures.
The Third Web examines InfinitySwap, an Internet Computer project led by Alessandro and Max that aims to build an automated market maker similar to Uniswap while adding staking and token-launch tools.
Mike Schwartz of Origin explains how seven years of work around Dominic Williams led from decentralized-infrastructure research to pan-industry platforms for provenance, authentication, and shared governance.
Stephen Andrews of Tonic Labs describes how Rise of the Magni runs its game engine inside an Internet Computer smart canister.
The Third Web examines misconceptions and open questions about the Internet Computer through host discussion with developer Jordan Last.
Rick Porter explains how Discover became a decentralized Reddit-style news aggregator after his work on De Beers diamond traceability and an AssemblyScript canister development kit.
Arthur Falls interviews Aparna Krishnan about blockchain consensus mechanisms and decentralized network technologies.