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Hoken Tech

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This interview series celebrates all the phenomenal . Congratulations! Well-Deserved, Champion.The HackerNoon community is excited to learn more about you! Startups of the Year Winners share the link to your winning city award here http://hackernoon.com/startups/europe/europe-bari-apulia-italy What does it mean for you to win this title? As a little team from Italy, being recognized abroad is very challenging, but it demonstrates that our team, little by little, is expanding beyond the national border and gaining more traction thanks also to this little reward that we achieved. P.S. We in 3rd position in all of Europe, so we are the 3rd best startup in Europe. Wow! arrived What sets you apart from the competition? Our business is in the blockchain and NFT field, but where the competition can create standard NFTs and collections, our team made a lot of R&D and achieved something great from physical NFTs to the first portable NFT distributor to web3 blockchain videogame, like the first blockchain NFT videogame for GameBoy. What do you love about your team, and why are you the ones to solve this problem? We have a small team, and this is the key to developing new products and elaborating fast strategies to test and implement new technology that lets our startup move fast and integrate new software and platforms to speed up some processes or to automate others in more we have a great CTO that can master several fields in the dev sector so sometimes we create or integrate some external APIs to our systems. If you weren’t building your startup, what would you be doing? It is difficult to say because our team already has great experience in different fields, and we decided to bring them together under our startup instead of working for other companies that would launch or offer products that we’ll end up developing for them in the future. At the moment, how do you measure success? What are your core metrics? We are based in South Italy, and because we are in Europe, for us, the success is to make great products and services, trying to consume less energy and waste as possible, so to be aware of the amount of our progress, we monitor daily our CO2 emissions, so we compare year after year our impact on the environment, and every year we release a report where there is all the key metric that is worth to track: Tell us how your startup is changing the world. Our focus is to give the best and most advanced tool available in the blockchain space to small and medium businesses because, especially in South Italy, they are often left behind due to a lack of knowledge of the field or due to overpriced solutions that are why we bring the same technology used by big companies, to small and medium companies, at a fair price. How do you or your company intend to embrace the responsibility of this title in 2024? In our case, the challenge that we want to face is to bring our little startup to become in the future a B Corporation, and so far, we have achieved little improvement so far, reaching a score of 35, not enough to be a B Corp, but we are more ahead of other companies, so we want to increase that number in this 2024: What goals are you looking forward to accomplishing in 2024? We want to create more games this year in the blockchain space and also try to lend to some major video game stores to reach more users. This a very challenging task because not all stores let devs bring blockchain videogame, so we are working to make our game fit in some videogame stores and let them know that the next generation of videogames are web3 videogames, where users own their items and progress, without the risk to shut down the server in the feature, because the server is on the blockchain! Which trend(s) are you most excited about in 2024? Share your reasons. Certainly, the one linked to artificial intelligence because there are every day a new tool or a new platform that automate or make easier a task that in the past where needed a person to make it possible, and in our case, we are testing and integrating some tools that are just perfect for small startups like us (have You tried Mockey?) 2023 had been another crazy year, especially in tech, with layoffs and the Generative AI takeover! Which trend are you most concerned about? Be as brief or as detailed as you like. In the future, this technology will progress without any problems and will be more accessible to more people; these people will use it in an improper way to create content, photos, and videos without the right permission to do so, especially in the deep fake field, where by now the voice cloning tool is evolving at high speed, and after that, the face cloning will be as simple as going on a bicycle. Share your biggest success so far and/or your biggest failure so far. One of the great achievements we have made so far is to create a blockchain NFT game for the iconic Gameboy from Nintendo, where not only we developed a game, but in more, we inserted an NFT so when completing the game, You receive an NFT, where You can store or sell on a public NFT marketplace, everything made possible using the EOS blockchain ( ): You can play for free on Itch We would love your feedback on HackerNoon as a tech publication! How has your experience been with us? With the team of HackerNoon, we have a special feeling because even though they started as little as us, they are now one of the best platforms to know everything in the tech field, with detailed guides in different sectors, from AI to blockchain and they even made a little documentary about crypto and blockchain. Any words of wisdom you’d like to share with us? There is incredible strength in being constant in the most difficult challenges. Like the sea that continues to crash against the rocks, never give up, because it is precisely in those moments of struggle and perseverance that the most extraordinary success stories are shaped. Startups of The Year is HackerNoon’s Flagship community-driven event celebrating startups that survived and thrived in 2023. 30,000 startups across 4200+ cities and six continents participated this year to be crowned the best startup in their city. See our global winners announcement . here Companies that blog more get 67% more leads - Jumpstart your company’s blogging journey by purchasing our . Business Blogging Package The 2023 Startups Of The Year is sponsored by: . . The winners will get a free .Tech Domain, a HackerNoon NFT, and a Tech Company News Page. TECH Domains

Meet Hoken Tech, Winner of the Startups of the Year in Bari

Welcome Founders! See other interviews here. Hey Hackers, Hoken Tech has been nominated in HackerNoon's annual awards in Bari, Italy. Startup of the Year Please vote for us here: . https://hackernoon.com/startups/europe/europe-bari-apulia-italy Read more about us below to understand why we deserve your vote. Meet Hoken Tech Hoken Tech is an Italian startup that connects Your brand to People with Italian NFTs, through: Portable NFT distributors Blockchain videogames Enhanced NFTs If You want to be amazed by our technology, schedule a call  now! Hoken Tech is the first startup in the world to have EOS and NFT as company shares My Role I’m Antonella, the CEO of Hoken Tech, with the task of guiding this fantastic Italian startup in bridging the technological gap between small/medium enterprises and the giants of the market, offering the same technology but at low costs. Currently, we are making some R&D in some onchain (on EOS EVM blockchain) safe communication tools like: Decetralized Email platform Decentralized blog post/Article platform How We're Disrupting/Improving the Engaging Industry Did You attend an event with a boring stand that has only business cards and some pens and keychains? We do, but when we attend events, we bring with us our NFT distributors and let visitors interact with it, to get exclusive NFTs, tokenized physical goods (books, EVO oil bottle, wine bottle), discounts, and more. All thanks to our innovative portable NFT distributors, that create a new way to engage visitors with an unforgettable experience with our products and services, generating “de facto“ genuine word-of-mouth marketing. Standing Out from The Crowd The outstanding product of Hoken Tech is the portable NFT distributors, a simple mechanical tool that has incredible technology behind it, using the carbon-neutral EOS blockchain to bring amazing NFTs that can be claimed in a physical way. NFTs are more than simple images, but a way to connect people, of all around the world, with products and services, for example selling EVO oil directly and internationally, with an NFT liked to it, and in more combining these NFTs with our portable NFT distributor, let people enjoying a fantastic experience. Our Predictions/Thoughts on the NFT Industry in 2023 The NFT space is just scratching the surface of what can be made with it, and in different sectors, for example: , more games will be decentralized letting users own in-game assets that have been paid for, and developers can rely on costless decentralized servers. Gaming , the scalping issue that hit this sector can be solved and mitigated, issuing non-transferable NFTs Ticketing , new promotion tools can be developed to bring tourists like NFT postcards, NFT city game Tourism But the sector can become more because blockchain technology and the features of NFTs, can unlock great potential that can be applied across the board, and more startups and innovation will emerge in the future. What word defines the state of NFT in 2023? Ownership! The centralized world has a good opponent in the blockchain space, and with NFTs, people can finally own what they pay for, and finally are free from being always linked to suffocating terms, that disable people's rights only for the profit of God. Did you know? The closure of the game "Megaman X Diva" by Capcom and the subsequent shutdown of its servers can indeed result in players losing their progress and invested resources in the game. On the other hand, blockchain-based video games that utilize Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) as game assets offer a different paradigm. With NFTs, players have true ownership of their in-game assets, which are stored securely in their digital wallets. This ownership grants players the freedom to use, trade, or transfer their NFT assets as they wish, without the risk Why we decided to participate in HackerNoon's Startup of the Year awards As a small Italian startup, it's important for you to showcase your work and compete with other companies on an international scale. This increased exposure to an international audience will not only demonstrate the products or services you are developing but also highlight the fact that Italy has noteworthy startups that are worthy of investment. This visibility can help attract potential investors and partners while putting your startup on the map as a competitive player in the global market. Final Thoughts Ignorance is a state that hampers our potential for growth and understanding of the world around us. It can arise from various factors such as insufficient information, inadequate education, or a reluctance to learn. When we allow ignorance to prevail, it can result in prejudices, stereotypes, and hasty judgments. These limitations hinder our capacity to comprehend and value the diversity among individuals. By actively seeking knowledge, fostering open-mindedness, and embracing continuous learning, we can overcome ignorance and foster personal growth and a more inclusive worldview. As the philosopher Socrates said, The only true knowledge is to know that you don't know. Only by acknowledging one's ignorance can one begin to seek the knowledge and learning needed to grow as an individual and as a society. Hoken Tech has been nominated as Startup of the Year in Bari, Italy. Vote for us today!

Interact, Collect & Play - Interview with Startups of the Year Nominee, Hoken Tech 

When we talk about NFT (Not Fungible Token), we all have in mind the classic image or video that represents something and that we can buy or sell in a completely autonomous and decentralized way on the various decentralized marketplaces on blockchain, so a limited iteration. But NFTs and their potential go far beyond the simple exchange, as they can perform functions that were not even thinkable and imaginable before, as in the case that we are going to examine in which it is possible to transform them into physical objects to be inserted into the internal of a distributor, but in this case of NFT. The NFT distributor of Hoken Tech The newborn Italian startup has created what is, in fact, the first portable NFT distributor in the world, a compact and mechanical device, which allows in its simplicity to distribute NFTs in a completely innovative and physical way, as these NFTs allow you to have the same characteristics of the NFTs that we find on the blockchain, but we can touch them firsthand. We are talking about special NFTs and which are made with dedicated smart contracts, and this allows you to have both unique NFTs and NFTs in series so as to distribute the same NFT in a limited way to the capacity of the distributor or the series of NFTs created. Once the NFTs to be inserted in the vending machine are created, it is time to manually load them into it, and only then can they be redeemed and recovered, with just 2 turns of rotation with a convenient ring that recovers 2 €1 coins one for each lap. And here the magic happens as the vending machine will automatically drop a capsule containing the NFT that was previously created by the person who placed the relative vending machine, in his shop, at any event, and why not even in a beach bathing area, and all this going to enhance the flow of visitors and onlookers who want to experience firsthand and retrieve limited NFTs in time, because once the 250 NFTs contained within the distributor are exhausted, there may be new pieces yes, at the discretion of the company itself. Why have an NFT distributor? One might wonder why someone should place a distributor in their business or at any event, a question that is more than legitimate and with a series of more than surprising answers. In fact, one of the main reasons is certainly the wow effect that these vending machines generate, as a new technology is combined with an already tested system that are vending machines and that each of us already knows and already knows how to use, so we have an ease of use. immediate use. Thanks to the effect of the novelty, these distributors inevitably lead to an influx of onlookers and visitors who came only to see and retrieve an NFT, given the low quantity of related pieces that the distributor can contain, as mentioned, a maximum of 250 NFTs at a time. Versatility of the dispenser as it has small dimensions and this allows it to be truly positioned anywhere, both indoors and outdoors, but also on the counter of any shop or stand in any event such as music, city or sector, but also of some country festival where you imagine creating NFTs of a typical food product and transporting it to NFT, where the curious will bring home an NFT of your product, making it known all over the world. Let's not also forget that this dispenser is sustainable, as it does not need electricity or batteries to work, in fact, it is completely mechanical and with no electrical components and is moderately robust to withstand any impacts, especially useful when you go around carrying it with self. Hotel, bar or restaurant? There is nothing better than welcoming guests to your facilities with something unique and exclusive to provide to your guests, NFTs dedicated to your facility, lasting memories that can be customized to your needs, and which at the same time act as a local and international marketing vehicle, as these NFTs can in turn be exchanged and sold by the owners and therefore make your structures known all over the world. But not only as this distributor integrates very well in limited time events such as fairs, festivals, and all those events lasting one or more days, and they can provide an increase in visitors and consequently also make the brand known or the product you are promoting. A customized and turnkey solution As previously mentioned, this distributor uses defined standards that are compatible only with the EOS blockchain, as the first blockchain in the world to be carbon neutral and therefore, the related NFTs that will be created will consequently be eco-sustainable. Both distributor and NFT are supplied by Hoken Tech, which are customized in every aspect, from the image of the NFT to its content, upon the client's indication, creating something unique and unrepeatable, as are all of our users. How can I get more info? At this point, all that remains is to program a live demonstration to see the live operation of this extraordinary and compact NFT vending machine, and to do so, just program a session through the relevant module that you find here: https://koalendar.com/e/dimostrazione-distributore-nft For Italian readers, here is the video about this fantastic NFT distributor: https://youtu.be/ZQeblDvfTkk

The NFT distributor of Hoken Tech

Congrats on raising new financing for Hoken Tech. How much money did you raise? And what are the terms of the deal? Thanks, in this case, we managed to get 30 thousand euros from an Italian government fund dedicated to culture and art and in more the advantage of these funds is that only half we will have to repay over 8 years. Who participated in the round? And how will these investors help the business grow beyond the money? As previously mentioned, the main actor of these capitals derives, indirectly, from the Italian government, and this also allows us to demonstrate to everyone, how our project has the qualities and characteristics of interfacing with important institutions such as governments Worldwide. What is your company’s current valuation? What data/traction/evidence supports this valuation? We are still a young startup, but despite this, we are making great steps forward, and even the data we are collecting is encouraging and allow us to better define our goals and also the needs of users who are our first supporters. What does your company offer today? And what do you think it will provide in the future? Our business at Hoken Tech is to provide museums and artists with tools to catalyze frictionless, rapid trade of their art. We identify institutions looking for new revenue streams, facilitate the integration of the crypto-based solution, and attract visitors to museums who use QR Codes to buy the NFT too! This is not your regular art collecting closet; we can target all aspects of your business from concept to execution. In the coming months, we will present something never seen in the world, that is an NFT distributor that can be placed anywhere, as it does not require electricity or batteries, and inside it is possible to insert a capsule that contains the NFT to be redeemed, all in a decentralized way and using the EOS blockchain. What differentiates your product and/or offering from competitors? In our case, our NFTs are eco-sustainable as they exploit the EOS blockchain, and for the uninitiated, it is the first blockchain in the world to be carbon neutral, and consequently, everything created on this blockchain, including the NFTs, I can boast of this title and feature. Furthermore, we can offer an integration of these NFTs also on users' websites to integrate something decentralized on centralized portals, having the advantage of both, in fact with our solution you can sell an NFT through any payment method, which it goes from PayPal, to credit card and even bank transfer, which not everyone can offer yet on the market. Who are the founders and key team members? What exceptional skills, abilities and perspectives does this team have? Pro tip: add a picture of your team! Our team is currently made up of two members and in particular, Antonella, who holds the role of CEO of Hoken Tech, born in 1992 who, after graduating in business management, takes over the reins of the family's farm to transform it into an innovative startup of online commerce. And it represents the commercial soul of the company, essential for maintaining relationships with users of the caliber of institutions such as museums and other cultural and non-cultural bodies. Then we have Alfredo, who holds the position of CTO, and is the technological backbone of the startup thanks to his experience in the crypto and blockchain sector since 2011, he has accumulated the necessary experience to concretely develop products and services that exploit the blockchain, not to forget the numerous books also written in the blockchain field (in total he has written over 100 books), and the recent victory as Best Crypto Journalist 2021, also lies behind the NFT distributor which will be launched shortly. In laymen’s terms, how do you plan on spending the money? Half of the funds will be invested to cover all expenses related to professionals such as notaries, lawyers, and accountants to make all our operations legally proofed, to operate clearly and transparently, while the other part of the funds will be used for all the equipment and raw materials essential to operate in this area. What’s exciting about your traction to date? And how do you plan on measuring growth going forward? An important aspect of traction and the parameters to be taken into consideration is to have models and systems that are in line with our society. Obviously, as a young company, we did not have all this information but thanks to the incubation program, which we followed and won, we have learned a lot. Helios (which is part of the Helios VC in which Brok Pierce also participates), and their mentors such as Gavriel Shaw, who have provided us with several templates to use that we’ve found helpful, especially for us the SaaS template created by is proving very useful and simple compared to other templates. Christoph Janz What are your revenue expectations over the next three years? One of our advantages is that we can diversify the various sectors in which we can operate, and therefore we can multiply our offer by the various sectors, not only therefore to the art and culture sector, but also in tourism, the product sector agri-food and more. In this sense, we have developed a 5-year projection, by inserting our various fixed costs and the potential revenues deriving from the various projects that we are going to carry out. What is your TAM (Total Addressable Market)? And what is your strategy to acquire the maximum share of this market? Our main market is the institutional one and specifically the museums, which are over 55 thousand worldwide, of which over 4 thousand in Italy (we are only talking about public museums) and we aim to offer a new form of revenue provided by the digitization of works in blockchain through NFTs. And this is where our strategy comes into action thanks to the NFT distributor as it allows us to attract visitors and at the same time be able to exploit NFTs as a form of monetization. In your funding raising pitch deck, what is your favorite slide? What problem are you solving? And Why is now the time for your company to solve this? The main problem that we are going to solve for institutions such as museums, is the recovery of capital for their structures, since, especially in Italy, most museums are free and depend on aid from the Italian government which is unfortunately not enough. This problem presents itself to us as an opportunity because thanks to NFTs the museum itself puts a new product in its catalog and in its store to be traded as if it were a poster, postcard, or catalog. In addition, thanks to the traction that the NFT sector had in 2021, many are and are approaching the same and want to integrate this technology in some way also in their company. What are the potential risks to the business? i.e. technology, regulatory, incumbents, legal, etc. One of the main problems we have, at least in Italy, is dictated by the lack of regulation, and therefore we must always be in line with what is promulgated by the Italian government and be compliant with them. In fact, having a company like ours in Italy and not abroad as most do, obliges us to follow all the laws of the country, and even if they are sometimes quite restrictive, it allows us to have a significant advantage towards competition, as it does not automatically comply with the various Italian laws, and this is why our company has relied on a law firm specialized in the crypto and blockchain sector, led by an extraordinary woman like Olivia. What intellectual and digital property does the company own? Or intend to build/own? i.e. patents, patents pending, copyrights, trade secrets, trademarks, domains, bored apes, etc. We embrace the same philosophy as the blockchain, where the code is open, public, and transparent, allowing us to be clear with everyone and provide something that others cannot provide, which is trust because if everyone knows what you do and how you do it, there is no 'it is a patent or secret that can provide the same trust as something transparent and public if it is not possible to verify it how can you trust that product, technology or patent, as you may have a patent but no one would know how it works or what secrets it hides. Regarding digital assets, we have budgeted our cryptocurrencies so as to focus ourselves on this sector and this technology, and also because the amount of cryptocurrencies that a company owns is easily controllable thanks to the blockchain and it is impossible to change even in the budgets, making us also a reliable company also from a financial and economic point of view. Why should we think Hoken Tech could grow to the moon?! The only way that companies have to grow and expand is to offer innovative and cutting-edge products, and we too, being a company operating in the sector of new technologies, must constantly evolve and always provide new solutions to everyone, and this is why we have developed the NFT distributor, something that our competitors have not and have not thought of and which is difficult to replicate, which for us is already ready to be launched on the market, and has already obtained crazy numbers at events into whom we showed it, we even had to remove it because we had blocked an entire hackathon due to our distributor NFT. Would you like to take a stab at answering some of these questions? Also check out: The link for the template is HERE. ten questions for every founder :-)

How The Italian Startup Hoken Tech Is Using Its New Funding

The wait is over! - it’s time to celebrate the champion startups of the world. Shout out to all of the participants in our ! You did a wonderful job showcasing your incredible startups and powering through another year. 2023 Startups of the Year is a community-driven voting platform brought to you by HackerNoon that recognizes and celebrates tech startups changing technology and the world for the better. The award started on May 8th, 2023, where the internet nominated and voted for 30k startups around the world. The voting period remained open until December 31, 2023, and now we are here with the winner announcement after a comprehensive evaluation by the HackerNoon team. Startups of the Year 2023 To see the top 3 startups in each respective city, visit and pick a city. hackernoon.com/startups You’ll get a little surprise 😉 Here are the Startups of the Year Regional Announcements: North America Europe Asia Africa South America Oceania Misc/Remote From all of us at HackerNoon, thank YOU for your excellent campaign perseverance 🥺 This year has been awesome! Startups of the Year 2023 is concluded with 623k+ total votes, up from 215k+ votes in the inaugural startup competition. We look forward to seeing you again in the next campaign (stay tuned 😉)! Without further ado, let us kick off the announcement by celebrating the cities with top votes per region for 2023 🎉 North America (11,697 votes): Winner: Bloomfilter Cleveland, Ohio (8,835 votes) - Winner: SerpApi Austin, Texas , California (5,564 votes) - Winner: Finch San Francisco (4,258 votes) - Winner: RELAYTO SoMa, California - (3339 votes) Winner: Windscribe Toronto, Canada, North America (3304 votes) - Winner: Vouched Seattle (2716 votes) - Winner: Seccuri Palo Alto, CA, North America (2671 votes) - Winner: Salsa Valley Miami, FL, North America (2,613 votes) - Winner: Majhi Group Manhattan, New York (2423 votes) - Winner: Flieber, Inc. New York City, NY, North America See the complete announcement for the . Startups of the Year, North America, here Europe (45,612 votes) - Winner: Algomo London, UK (2,344votes) - Winner: Data Lake Warsaw, Poland (1,955 votes) - Winner: Hoken Tech Bari, Italy (1716 votes) - Winner: Not8 Amsterdam, Netherlands (1657 votes) - Winner: KYVE Frankfurt Am Main, Germany (1566 votes) - Winner: BazaIT Kyiv, Ukraine (1496 votes) - Winner:  Unity Network Tallinn, Estonia (1,478 votes) - Winner: Volcaino Ghent, Belgium (1,288 votes) - Winner: Owl Me Dublin, Ireland (1198 votes) - Winner: Groover Paris, France See the complete announcement for the . Startups of the Year, Europe, here Oceania (3,350 votes) - Winner: Sharepass Melbourne (2,107 votes) - Winner: The Catfisher Project Perth, Australia (220 votes) - Winner: Gemini AI Solutions Auckland, New Zealand, Oceania (213 votes) - Winner: Nexustorage Wellington, New Zealand, Oceania (138 votes) - Winner: Coviu Sydney (124 votes) - Winner: Bopple Brisbane, Australia, Oceania (124 votes) - Winner: Regional CFO New South Wales, Australia, Oceania (106 votes) - Winner: Edit on the Spot Gold Coast, Australia, Oceania (93 votes) - Winner: Knowledge Satnav Canbera, Australia, Oceania , Australia, Oceania (48 votes) - Winner: Peptalk360 North Melbourne, Melbourne See the complete announcement for the . Startups of the Year, Oceania, here Asia (16,345 votes) - Winner: Serenity Shield Singapore (13,588 votes) - Winners: QUIXY Telangana, India (10,168 votes) - Winner: HealthySure Mumbai, India (3,865 votes) - Winner: InterviewBuddy Visakhapatnam, India (3,733 votes) - Winner: Omniflo Bengaluru, India (4589 votes) - Winner: MeNow Tel Aviv (3877 votes) - Winner: ForestVPN Dubai (2478 votes) - Winner: TechGraph Powai, Mumbai, India (1004 votes) - Winner: Reelo Ahmedabad, GJ, India (875 votes) - Winner: Debt Hunter Hong Kong, China See the complete announcement for the . Startups of the Year, Asia, here Africa (8,179 votes) - Winner: GO PLATFORM Algiers, Algeria (767 votes) - Winner: Tudu Accra, Ghana (415 votes) - Winner: Treford Lagos, Nigeria (265 votes) - Winner: Phalconwise Ogbomosho, Nigeria (157 votes) - Winner: AbuErdan Cairo (151 votes) - Winner: Eazipay Lekki (144 votes) - Winner: KaziConnect Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (101 votes) - Winner: faceATT Gauteng, South Africa (79 votes) - Winner: Dimagi Cape Town (71 votes) - Winner: Sabi Addis Ababa See the complete announcement for the . Startups of the Year, Africa, here South America (376 votes ) - Winner: UpGirl Santiago, Chile (217 votes) - Winner: Klever Sao Paulo, Brazil (191 votes) - Winner: Tributo Simple Buenos Aires, Argentina (127 votes) - Winner: Light-it Montevideo, Uruguay (87 votes) -Winner: Thousand Antioquia, Colombia (108 votes) - Winner: GetLavado Lima (101 votes) - Winner: Cogniflow Medellin (73 votes) - Winner: TPAGA Bogota (73 votes) - Winner: Reliv Quito (47 votes) - WInner: Quantex Cordoba See the complete announcement for the . Startups of the Year, South America, here Misc/Remote: Featured Startups (1500 votes) - Winner: CIC Chain Remote, Earth (1193 votes) - Winner: Reship Colony US Misc (146 Votes) - Winner: Partful UK, Misc (116 votes) - Winner: GoMining British Virgin Islands Misc (283 Votes) - Winner: tomorrowSpace Germany Misc (225 votes) - Winner: Dtravel Cayman Islands See the complete announcement for Misc/Remote startups . here Once again, HUGE CONGRATULATIONS and BIG PROPS to all of the top Startups of each region this year! The whole team at HackerNoon would like to thank you for your perseverance in the campaign, and we look forward to seeing you in the next campaign. About HackerNoon’s Startups Of The Year Startups of The Year is HackerNoon’s Flagship community-driven event celebrating startups that survived and thrived in 2023. 30,000 startups across 4200+ cities and six continents participated this year to be crowned the best startup in their city. Visit our page to learn more. 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Let's learn about via these 34 free stories. They are ordered by most time reading created on HackerNoon. Visit the to find the most read stories about any technology. Blockchain Startup /Learn Repo 1. Experimenting with Chaos Engineering and Blockchain Use the open-source Chaos Toolkit (CTK) to better understand Blockchain, stable-states, and what immutability really means. 2. Startup Interview with Gabriel Dymowski, DoxyChain Co-founder & CEO New enterprise-ready blockchain revolutionising document management space. DoxyChain brings new online contracting standards to European Union. 3. "Rationality at the expense of another person’s mental health is not worth it", says Elesaro CEO An interview with Johnpaul Nobodo - the Co-Founder/CEO of Elesaro: a full suite crowdfunding protocol built on Binance smart chain. 4. The Archethic Mainnet Has Officially Been Launched "Fully decentralized, open-source public blockchain with high speed and low transaction fees made by the people, for the people" 5. Responsible Digitization And Blockchain Technology Nowadays, digitization also allows us to automate processes. However as mentioned, we can implement responsible digitization 6. Startup Interview with Viktor Viktorov, Founder & CEO of REINNO REINNO CEO discusses commercial mortgages on blockchain, Ethereum 2.0, getting published on HackerNoon, and measuring success. 7. "Fail faster. Shorten the path to success": Borys Pikalov, Stobox Co-Founder Stobox was nominated as one of the best startups in Los Altos, United States in Startups of The Year hosted by HackerNoon. 8. Behind the Startup: Interview with Vent Finance Co-Founder Vent Finance is a multi-chain launchpad and accelerator that sets the stage for Web3 projects. 9. Meet the Writer: Alfred, Blockchain Specialist, Developed and Published 50+ Android Games The story of Alfred, a Senior Android developer with a background so impressive that even Elon Musk is envious. 10. Cardano Native Tokens: Good or Bad? The CEO of Koinos Group explores the recent announcement of native tokens on Cardano. What does it mean? Is necessarily a good thing? 11. Startup Interview with Catherine Whitehead, MathforMoney COO Math for Money was nominated as one of the best startups in Zurich in Startups of the Year hosted by HackerNoon. 12. The NFT distributor of Hoken Tech The new frontier of NFTs where can be delivered in a physical way like never before, all made by an Italian startup 13. How the Krew Accelerator Program Will Support Blockchain Startups in Web3 Krew is a DeFi accelerator nested in the Klaytn ecosystem. It aims to develop, incubate, and promote DeFi products the EVM-compatible. 14. Joey Poareo Explains How Blockchain Can Revolutionize and Speed Up Scientific Innovation Interview with Joey Poareo, co-founder at InuYasha, a decentralized incubator accelerator fund that uses uses DAO governance to speed up crypto projects. 15. From Internet Voting to Blockchain Voting: From Good to Better If you've perchance stumbled over any of my previous ramblings, you'll know I believe blockchain technology has the potential to revolutionise the way we vote. I've been writing about it for over a year now on Hackernoon. In that time, I've had the chance to speak with some of the foremost experts in the field, Amelia Powers Gardener (now County Commisioner for Utah) and Philipe Andrea (silver-tongued advocate for Voatz), amongst others,  and I've learned a lot about the many ways that blockchain can be used to improve the voting process. 16. Splyt’s Reconceptualization of Affiliate Marketing: Top Trends Simply Explained Affiliate marketing is a lucrative way for web users to leverage their network to generate additional income through third-party sales. Until recently, these partnerships were hard to establish in a way that proved mutually beneficial for both parties. Now, there is an alternative way for sellers to increase e-commerce sales and for independent marketing intermediaries to earn a commission. Splyt takes the guesswork out of affiliate marketing, creating a way for sellers to gain access to affiliate marketers without taking on additional monetary risk. 17. How Joe Roets Built 'Dragonchain', A Hybrid Blockchain Platform Interview with Joe Roets, Architect and Founder of Dragonchain, a company that solves real-world problems using blockchain technology. 18. How to Decode Your Own EU Vaccination Green Pass With a Few Lines of Python Find out how to decode the QR code in your EU Vaccination Passport (Green Pass) using Python. Find out which data is encoded inside 19. Blockchain and the Insufferable Millennial I went to the Crypto Funding Summit in Los Angeles on January 24, 2018, and while it was sparsely attended, there were a lot of good speakers and a number of interesting vendors exhibiting and giving their ICO pitch. 20. How New Startups are Helping Remove the ONE Thing that Terrifies Would-Be Crypto Investors Last year, crypto saw everything from 7,000% gains to catastrophic failures, where anyone investing would have got a better return if they'd burned their assets 21. Crypto loans: The Quick and Dirty Guide Unit protocol allows you to deposit multiple types of appreciating assets, including: LP
tokens, yield bearing tokens, DPI, yvLINK. $USDP stablecoin. $DUCK 22. 6 Medical Blockchain Solutions for Clinical Trials Within this climate, clinical trial startups are attempting to fine-tune the use cases for blockchain record-keeping. 23. Who Needs a Seat at The Table For Your Enterprise Blockchain Company? Do you have the right stakeholders at the table to begin having important conversations and contributing to key decisions? 24. Minimizing Risks With Blockchain Startups Financial technology (FinTech) is an evolutionary outgrowth of digital technology. Although it existed before, only since smartphones has it gathered steam and become omnipresent. FinTech is based around gathering and leveraging financial information and then automating it for the best user-end experience. 25. How One Blockchain Company BUIDLed Their Way to the Top 50 The future looks bright for the world of blockchain. According to Gartner, the industry will generate an annual business value of over $175 billion by 2025, reaching $3 trillion by 2030. However, while these figures are impressive, there’s much more to the story. 26. How We Minimized Cardano DApp Development Costs How to minimize Cardano DApp development costs, the importance of cost reduction, and the best available node providers. 27. How ARTH Stablecoin Was Built and Designed to Protect The User's Purchasing Power Mitul Gajera, designer of the stable value coin ARTH explains and gives insight into how the cryptocurrency was designed to protect the user's purchasing power. 28. Looking to Invest in a DeFi Project? Here are 5 Ideas Worth Considering 2020 will go into crypto history as the year of DeFi. It has been a long time since we have seen a hype of similar magnitude, probably best comparable to the 2017 ICO hype. 29. What is the ThunderCore Iris Hard Fork? The incoming ThunderCore hard fork will bring better cross-chain interoperability to the ThunderCore blockchain, creating a more developer-friendly platform. 30. How to Choose a White Label Crypto Exchange Software for Business why white label exchange software is an optimal solution and how a startup should select this kind of software when it comes to the crypto exchange business. 31. 6 Essential Steps to Build a Blockchain Startup Blockchain and crypto startups are on the rise. What do you need to know before starting your own business in the space? 32. Why We Invested in These 5 Blockchain Companies ArkStream Capital invested in more than 10 projects in the first quarter of 2021. Here are 5 of the most promising ones. 33. Explaining the Blockchain with Axelar CEO Sergey Gorbunov In this slogging ama, we chatted with Sergey Gorbunov about his blockchain network Axelar, his background, and the basics of blockchain. 34. Redefining FPS Games with Shrapnel Head Don Norbury Don Norbury is the head of the studio at Shrapnel, a blockchain-enabled FPS game. We held a Slogging AMA for Don. Thank you for checking out the 34 most read stories about Blockchain Startup on HackerNoon. to find the most read stories about any technology. Visit the /Learn Repo

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Web3 in a nutshell is the advocacy of your digital rights. The 1990-2020 era of the Internet was defined by a growing list of intermediary entities that kept gnawing away at ownership over your assets (banks), enterprise (e-commerce stores), creative content (social media platforms), and everything in between. With Web3, we’re going to take it back. The 2022 Noonies’ Web3 Award Category, in partnership with Bing Ventures, celebrates those tech-pioneers who’re fighting the good fight! Here are the stats: 4,743 nominees. 371 Hacker Noon awards for 2022 Across 5 award categories: Web3, Emerging Tech, Gaming, Internet Heroes, and Programming. And a monumental 143,156 votes cast over at noonies.tech To see the winners simply visit , pick an award, and discover which name appears at the top. That’s the winner! noonies.tech The Web3 category alone is announcing 41 superhumans of the Internet! Let’s congratulate the winners! Best Crypto-Journalist The previous runner up for the Best Crypto Journalist 2021 now has the title of the Alfredo de Candia WINNER! Most Innovative Use of Blockchain Technology , an Italian startup that leverages blockchain to bring new implementations with NFTs, has shown THE most innovative use of blockchain in 2022. They launched the first portable NFT distributor in the world. A machine that lets anyone get an NFT in a physical and traditional way like taking a gum from the gumball machine. Hoken Tech The MUT Award (Most Utilizable NFT) is also the first LLC having an NFT as a capital share, which makes it the most utilizable NFT. Hoken Tech Biggest Blockchain Hero of 2022 , the creator of Ethereum. Vitalik Buterin Breakout Blockchain of 2022 is the pioneer in the crypto industry that uses biometric technology to create a network in which sybil resistance and innovative governance models are more accessible than ever. Humanode Blockchain Advancement of the Year must have checked the boxes this year with two wins in a row! Being the breakout and the most advanced blockchain, they have become one of the ’s phenomenons. Humanode Noonies2022-Web-3 Best Crypto-Wallet of 2022 sure knows how to keep your coins safe. With key vault, secure login, token wallet, and token exchange, no one, even your spouse, can access the wallet without your permission. Metamask The Metaverse of Madness award makes the most out-of-the-sandbox world of your own imagination. It is this year’s best virtual land where you can shop, play, create, and even earn “sand” that is actually valuable. Sandbox Best Decentralized Exchange of 2022 creates the best Genie who could grant you three wishes this year and many years forward: Buy, Sell and Swap crypto and NTFS with confidence. Uniswap Best Ethereum Newsletter updates the newest and most in-depth evolution of Ethereum and its impact on crypto markets. Better keep waiting every Wednesday for actual valid points! Valid Points by CoinDesk Crypto Growth Warrior The dropped some fact-based tips for many beginners’ journeys to the crypto world. He also went all strategic this year, not only in his trading tactics, but also in his way to win the Crypto Growth Warrior award! Coin Bureau The Most Daming Crypto Scam of the Year The Crypto Winter of 2022 can be attributed solely to the complete collapse of the and its . LUNA Token "Stable coin" UST - TerraUST Top Crypto YouTuber is the best crypto content creator this year on YouTube with shorts describing the life of a trader that cannot be more accurate! Girl Gone Crypto Torchbearers of Blockchain Development is this year’s best torchbearer who contributed to maintain the drive and motivation for both rookies and veterans in blockchain development. Their content is high in quality and best in the field. EatTheBlocks HackerNoon's Bitcoin Crusader of 2022 Catch one of the best articles written on Bitcoin by THE ONE AND ONLY with their ! They kept crushing those newsletters, and of course, Hackernoon stories for investors in the crypto industry. Rekt Capital “General Partner of a digital asset pe fund launching Jan 1 2022” HackerNoon's Biggest BUIDLer of Blockchain of 2022 Hackernoon’s 2021 contributor of the year on YouTube, , contributed the BEST blockchain story this year for our community.  He sure knows how to make a chain work! Jeremy Kauffman Most Necessary FUD Pill Web 3 is certainly the sweetest candy to many of us, but has saved us from the sugar rush. They pointed out unique views on how VRchat and Metaverse can actually benefit us, the people, not the game. People Make Games HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- CRYPTOCURRENCY utilizes alchemy in blockchain technology to improve the fundamentals of DeFi. By using NFT staking, this will adhere to the next generation of yield farming and liquidity mining. Concentrating on delivering a play-to-earn NFT game and a marketplace for NFT fractional ownership, Madalin M., the CEO and founder of this network, and his team have contributed not only services but also knowledge to the crypto world this year. Madalin M. | Sphynx.Network HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- BLOCKCHAIN is a Layer-3 peer-to-peer network that leverages state channel technology to support trading, clearing, settlement, and compliance as well as securely exchange liquidity. The network they created is greater than ever, both in Yellow, and in Hackernoon’s green. Yellow Network HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- METAVERSE once said “If you have a Will to win, you will win”. And sure he did! An outstanding champion writing about everything you can think of in Web 3, especially his view upon Metaverse - as unique as what you can create in this virtual reality. Congratulations! Mickey Maler HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- NFT definitely knows how to sail those boats to victory! They shared stories on how to own yachts with NFTs, making the unapproachable, approachable.  This year Hackernoon’s Best Contributor in NFT calls the name of SALIENT YACHTS! Salient Yachts HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- ETHEREUM is an all-in-one trading platform powered by the Aurox Token that offers customized workspaces, alerts, and proprietary indicators to help both experienced and novice investors make better investing and trading decisions. They did not just help investors indicate the trend, but also the winning platform to trade Ethereum, AUROX! Aurox HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- SMART-CONTRACTS The prize once again calls for ! He is not only smart in his ways around the Metaverse, but also the way to make and store blockchain transactions smartly. Mickey Maler HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- BITCOIN Blockchain cannot block from his chain to victories! He did put his Will to win very seriously this time, and won the Best Contributor in this year. Congratulations, again! Mickey Maler BITCOIN HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- CRYPTOGRAPHY I think you know who’s the winner this time. Yes, it is, the one and only ! If you’re gonna propose to this guy, better make sure it’s via encrypted messages. MICKEY MALER HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- DECENTRALIZED-INTERNET As a YouTuber, knows his ways to benefit as a creator in a decentralized internet. His secrets are kept for no one, and some of those best tips were contributed to Hackernoon’s community. Thanks and congratulations, Gospel! Darlington Gospel HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- SOLIDITY wrote in quality not quantity. He Solidified his points in one of his best tutorial stories about Solidity, and became the Best Contributor this year! Tirtha Sarker HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- DEFI Last year winner of Hackernoon’s DeFi DeGen, , once again scored this year's prize as the Best Contributor in the DeFi category! He is also the one whom you came to for marketing tips in technology. Serge Baloyan HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- DAO ’s knowledge in DAO varies across fields, from MoonDAO to even Donald Trump DAO (?). We don’t know who needs it, but we sure know Oyebanji can write about it! Olayimika Oyebanji HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- BANKING answered beautifully the universal question of which to choose: Cash, Card, or Crypto? He sure knows how banks work (or doesn’t work at all). Olegscernisevs HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- DAPPS can now DAB for his DAPPS content this year on Hackernoon! The win is yours to grab! Victor Fabusola HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- TOKENIZATION wrote the clearest definition of tokenization which is easy for every beginner to get the idea of this quite complicated notion. And as he said, let’s “Tokenize it!” Emil Holtemann HackerNoon's NFT Wizard of 2022 He must know it from the inside and out to do marketing for this magical industry. Once again, NFT Wizard of the year - ! He is aware that he is “one of the best NFT and Web 3 experts”. Serge Baloyan Web3 Wizard Our one and only DeFi and NFT wizard is actually the one who got the magic of it all, meet - The Web 3 Wizard! Serge Baloyan HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- PROOF-OF-STAKE He was once the Best in IoT, and he is now the Best in PoS. Congratulations, ! Keep up the good work in acronyms! FM - Fabio Manganiello Centralization Vanquisher of The Year did his magic last year to become the 2021 NFT Wizard, and the spell has not expired…just in a different title, Centralization Vanquisher of The Year! Congratulations! Christian Kameir HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- BINANCE ’s binance stories became a phenomenon this year. They are an early crypto advocate, and definitely an on-time champion! Jenny Zheng HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- ICO He knows how his money flows, and how to keep your coins safe in your wallets. Congratulations to this year's Best Contributor in ICO - ! The CEO of Plasma Wallet, and the CEO in ICO readers’ heart! Ilia Maksimenka

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NFTs represent the new frontier of both traditional and digital art, and for all those projects and initiatives that have something tangible both in terms of products and services as they offer an NFT to users, they can achieve something. in return, such as a physical book. Moreover, thanks to the multitudes of platforms or services that allow you to create NFT, such as Hoken Tech, this sector has seen a more than exponential growth of these pieces, with collections of thousands of pieces, it has now become a scheme to create collections from 10 thousand pieces, also the result of the simple copy and paste of the initial smart contract, replacing only a few images, the so-called copymint phenomenon. But leaving out the scam collections, the rest we find are the result of valid and genuine artists and projects that unfortunately have difficulty in emerging from the mire of these scam NFTs, and look for channels other than the usual inflated social media which, even if they are valid, require to have an important user base to let their followers know about them. And it is here, in this difficulty of making known their works and projects that the marketing platforms focused on NFTs, position themselves as they are designed to be able to collect, on request, our NFTs and then depending on the commitment of the author, they may have greater or lesser visibility on the platforms themselves. Unfortunately, in this sector, not everyone knows which platforms to use or which services to exploit as those who create NFTs usually do not have a clear strategy and often do everything independently, but with poor results, it is almost impossible for a new user to create the NFT and on the same day that NFT is sold, as they haven't thought about how to promote it, and only after weeks and months of waiting for it to be sold, do they start wondering where and how to advertise NFTs. Today we will see together some platforms, both Italian and foreign, which allow for various reasons, to send our NFTs, or rather our NFT projects, to them to "list" them and have a broader view of the public, making us known about this tool and to all users who use it, as those looking for something interesting, also go through these platforms. NFT Calendar A certainly interesting site that also allows you to list your projects for free is NFT Calendar, where with a simple interface, we can see the various NFTs and projects and also their drop period and if they are finished. As mentioned, one of the advantages is the possibility of listing one of our events for free by providing various information, and this will then be reviewed and sent for publication; there is also the possibility of paying for the service to get greater visibility on the site. Nifty World Another more professional site instead is that of Nifty World with different sections and also the banner for the NFTs in the foreground, but also the field searches to find the various NFTs or particular tags that reflect our needs. Also in this case, after registering on the site, we will be able to send our NFT project by choosing from time to time all the steps that will be shown on the video, then starting from the reference blockchain of our project up to the description and price of the same. NFT Evening How not to mention one of the major NFT-related portals out there, NFT Evening, is a real hot spot both for getting to know the latest news relating to non-fungible tokens and for the new collections that will be released several months in advance. There is a section dedicated to the scheduling of NFTs, where we can also enter ours, and see all the upcoming ones but also the current and past ones to also have a record of those and compare their current performance. Up coming NFT Let's continue now with a simple and effective portal, upcomingnft, as in addition to having the classic layout with the sponsored NFT section at the top and bottom of the various categories, it also allows us to send our project with the convenient button, even if in this case the relative project will be examined by the administrators who will contact us for more information. The interesting thing about this portal is also the possibility to leave our addresses and social media, to enter the whitelist of future airdrops that there may be some NFT projects prefer to give away part of the NFTs and this list serves precisely to provide the authors with all the various addresses to which you can send your NFTs, first of all, a tool that is not bad and is completely free. NFT Drops Calendar Let's now move on to another site with a name very similar to one already seen, and we are talking about NFT Drops Calendar, a clean site with various sections from the current and upcoming drops to the news and also a dedicated community. But the interesting thing is, in addition to having the section to send our NFT project, it is the NFT Giveaways section, which allows anyone to see all the necessary steps to be able to receive some NFTs completely free by completing some tasks on the various social networks media such as following authors, retweeting tweets and so on, a convenient tool to recover even valuable NFTs without spending anything. Rarity Tools This platform, on the other hand, offers a higher service its classified listing costs 2 ETH, it allows you to have considerable exposure as, due to the cost to be faced, you have greater certainty about the goodness of the project. Interesting about this platform is the part of the NFT statistics as we can see various collections based on weekly volumes, those that generated the most volumes, those with a high price average, and those with the largest number of holders of that collection, essential to understanding where to invest and which projects are faster to trade in the market now. NFT Hunter To conclude this beautiful full-bodied list, how not to mention the Italian platform NFT Hunter, here is the made to the founder Lorenzo by me in which he tells the story of this platform and its operation. Even here we have the classic interface and the possibility of sending our NFT for free or for a fee in the premium section, and the interesting thing about it is that users can vote on the related NFTs by making them climb in the rankings and for example, the is in position 8 with 130 votes. interview NFTs of Hoken Tech over Finally, we remind everyone that before creating NFTs it is always good to develop a marketing strategy behind them, and we at Hoken Tech also follow all the developments of the project and its artist by creating and providing a series of services, all included, which allows the author to enjoy the fruits of his work without too many worries, it is no coincidence that the first work of the artist Juan Tardivo was in just 48 hours from its creation and listing. sold I made a video where I explain some features of these platforms and other interesting details: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twzaTwdFyHk&feature=youtu.be

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In decentralization, we trust, and in our community, we believe! This interview is part of the ! For those who are reading about it for the first time, HackerNoon has built a partnership with Free Ton ( ) - a decentralized, community-powered blockchain movement for free internet! This is the last month to participate in the contest. You can see all here. #Decentralized-Internet writing contest now rebranded as Everscale #Decentralized-Internet stories So without further ado, let’s start the interview. Thank you for joining us! Please tell us about yourself. Hi, I’m Alfred from Italy, a senior Android developer. I’ve developed several apps (a recent one is about NFTs). I’ve also written books on different themes, from romance books to blockchain-specific books like the one about or . I’m a blockchain specialist and CTO of Hoken Tech, an Italian startup leveraging the EOS blockchain to provide different services. DeFi NFTs If You want to know me more, check my interview . here Let's discuss centralized internet first. What is your opinion on the centralized internet? What are its pros/cons? Let’s start first with some history notes like the purpose of the Internet. It was developed by the United States Department of Defense to better connect several offices and use it as a means to get quick information and facilitate communication. Soon this “connection“ was extended to Universities letting students and teachers gather more information about different things like paper, contact, and so on, and the latter was widespread to the entire world. One of the interesting things about the Internet and precisely IPS (Internet Protocol Suite) like TCP/IP is the capability to transmit information no matter what happens, extremely efficient in a war scenario where it isn’t easy to send messages or information to the headquarter or other soldiers or in an emergency or natural disaster. This technology always works. But everyone doesn’t have equal access to this resource. From cable, cabinet, and so on, to an internet service provider (ISP) that will provide the connection for us, previous payment, a payment that is completely arbitrary, i.e., in Ethiopia, a 60 Mbps ADSL internet monthly bill s less than $400 and in Ukraine, the same connection cost about $6 per month. cost This huge gap leaves millions of people from using this technology for multiple purposes from education to finance, causing one of the best means of payment on the internet is through blockchain. What does decentralization mean to you? For me, everything that doesn’t require a center “failure“ point, that it can work every day without specific authorization or authority that tells me what and when doing my stuff if I want to a wire bank transfer on Saturday or Sunday, I don’t care if the bank is closed, I need to process the money transfer as soon I press the button to send money (problem partially solved with digital banking and instant wire bank transfer for SEPA users). I want to publish my stuff, articles, books, apps without a middleman that can censor me or ban me, directly or indirectly even with some moderator for publishing a controversial article, l and also other subreddit of other blockchains. ike the ban I have on r/Bitcoin To me, decentralization means freedom, freedom to do what I want, when I want (in a law frame, of course), I don’t want to fear to post or saying something bad or different from common and public opinion. Did You know? I’ve started writing on HackerNoon after my Medium account was closed, and I was banned from writing there. What is the best thing about decentralized internet? The astonishing thing about a decentralized internet is the ability to log in with my wallet, any kind of wallet that I prefer, not imposed from someone, linking my profile, and seeing my items linked to my blockchain address/account. Another cool thing is the versatility of access cause I can log in from my smartphone, PC, or even a simple browser. The “hardware“ problem is not a problem here as we are letting all people have access to it with their choice and without spending too much on hardware. Moreover, no one can steal my items or censor my things, i.e., I can log in to a writing platform or social network with my blockchain wallet and make posts or comments without problem, and without giving away my information like email or some dubious consensus to some ToS for some company that will resell my data for money for itself. A cool project, in this case, is Violet Garden, a social media on EOS blockchain where You can log in with Your EOS account and post, comment, and make several things directly on the blockchain. Are you currently directly or indirectly working on the decentralized internet use case? We would love to know more about it. One of the things I want to resolve is creating some platform to let book authors decentralize their books, cause in this field, often authors are victims of the publisher that has a big influence even on the royalties for the author. A platform where anyone can publish his book in an autonomous and independent way is not easy to do, especially for a paperback copy for the expensive cost of self-publishing something like that, but very easy if we take it all on the digital side and with blockchain this is possible. I made several tests and strategies to , more a prototype but all working without a problem and a great goal will be to create a dApp (decentralized application) on a blockchain where anyone can upload his manuscript and sell it for crypto, with 100% royalties without asking the permission of anyone. link both physical and digital books to an NFT What are the biggest challenges in the way of the decentralized web? If we see the modern web, we can see that there is a written part, with articles and so on, a video part with several video portals like YouTube, and a storage part with the rest, and all these things have something in common, space. Space in the blockchain is a valuable thing, the more space you need, the more you have to pay. Even the famous NFT doesn’t upload his file on blockchain but uses an off-chain system represented by IPFS protocol for saving and limiting cost. We have to reach a good tradeoff for saving big data on the blockchain at a low price, and of course, a blockchain can do different things other than offering space, even there are some blockchains with big blocks like Bitcoin SV. Do you have any apprehension or fear related to the decentralization of the internet? A problem using decentralized internet is . Anyone can post anything on the blockchain, and someone can use it for a bad purpose, making it difficult even to find the culprit. pseudo-anonymity But some ways and clever solutions are on the way. For example, on EOS blockchain with the Eden EOS project, it is possible to authenticate the user of the account and link a person to an account, and with this, you can know who is behind that post or article. Integration made on Violet Garden, where decentralized social media is used only by real people and real accounts. How do you see the future of the decentralized internet? In my view, I want to see a decentralized ID system where my personal data are on blockchain in my account. Some or all digital certificates are uploaded in my account with a dedicated smart contract, like an ID smart contract; all info is owned by me and shared by me to whoever I want. EOS blockchain has advantages because the RAM resource can store anything, which is more like a digital SSD on the EOS blockchain. Thank you for your time! Any closing thoughts/advice for the readers? If you find a closed-door or no one is listening to your ideas, giving up isn’t the answer, instead find alternatives and ways to keep on going and keep sharing your stories, your ideas. No one can stop your signal!

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