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India Emerges as Global Leader in Web3 Adoption with Over 1,000 Startups: Report

According to recent research released on Tuesday, India now boasts one of the biggest Web3 ecosystems globally, home to over 35 million merchants and over 1,000 firms.

Globally, the percentage of Blockchain developers in the nation climbed from 3% in 2018 to 12% last year, the highest percentage among emerging nations, according to a report by Web3 venture capital firm Hashed Emergent.

Tak Lee, CEO and Managing Partner of Hashed Emergent, stated, “The findings underscore India’s remarkable ascent in Web3 adoption and show that it is on a trajectory to become the global leader.”

Lee continued, “We think the regulatory environment is slowly changing in the right direction, but more beneficial regulatory developments are needed to spur growth.”

Out of more than 150 nations, India topped the list for on-chain usage in the previous year.

The Head of Web3 at KPMG in India, Krishna Tyagi, claims that “blockchains have enabled various innovative use cases such as DeFi, tokenization of real-world assets, self-sovereign identities, track and trace, etc., which were not possible earlier.”