The term Web3 was coined by Gavin Wood, Co-founder of Ethereum and Polkadot as well as the Web3 Foundation (https://web3.foundation/about/ https://web3.foundati

The term Web3 was coined by Gavin Wood, Co-founder of Ethereum and Polkadot as well as the Web3 Foundation (https://web3.foundation/about/ https://web3.foundation/about/). The crypto community is the biggest part of the push for it, so it's natural that people would make that connection. However, I consider any web tech that has user ownership or decentralization as a principle to be Web3. Some non-crypto examples would be Mastadon, Matrix, GunDB, and IPFS (although IPFS does have crypto-backed pinning services, such as Filecoin and Arweave, IPFS itself is agnostic to crypto).