#Decentralized-Intenet Writing Contest: December Results Announced

Heyo, HackerNoon contributors! We wish yáll a v. happy new year! With the December announcement, HackerNoon and Everscale bring you a surprise gift. We are extending the Decentralized Internet Writing Contest for three months!

THE GAME IS STILL ON!

Here's how you can participate:

• Set up an account on HackerNoon.
• Check out the Decentralized Internet Writing Competition's rules.
• Pen your story and submit it with #Decentralized-Internet as one of the tags.
• Or give this interview on decentralized internet to qualify for the contest, just like that!

So, are you one of the winners of #Decentralized-Internet writing contest for December? 👀 Let's find out.

Our top 15 nominations for the month of December

Before going through the list, let's understand the process first. We picked all the stories tagged with #Decentralized-Internet on HackerNoon, published in December 2021. Then we chose the top 15 stories using 60:30:10 weightage respectively to:

• Number of hours read

• Number of people reached

• The freshness of the content

  
  

Here is the list of our top 15 contenders:

1. 3 Best Metaverse Games to Follow in 2022 by @falconite
2. Web 3.0 For Businesses: A Beginner's Guide by @emmanuelawosika
3. The Top 7 Metaverses That You Can Try Right Now by @sergey-baloyan
4. Understanding DAO: A Basic Explanation by @sergey-baloyan
5. Taking Away The Metaverse from Mark Zuckerberg: Billionaire Brothers Strike Back by @extrachain
6. An Algorithmic Decentralized Central Bank: Eliminating Irrational Token Allocation with SORA by @soratopia
7. Top 7 Investment Firms Leading NFT Venture Rounds by @sergey-baloyan
8. 4 DeFi Protocols that Will Build the Future of Finance by @rowenlan
9. Cefion Anonymous Messenger App Review: Confidentiality, Simplicity, and Blockchain by @nonamec3po
10. Facebook vs. Decentralized Projects: Who Will Win the 'Metaverse War'? by @cryptus
11. The Internet is Broken, But The Metaverse and Web 3.0 Could be the Solution by @futuristiclawyer
12. The Collector's Guide to Avoid Insidious NFT Scams by @husseinhallak
13. In the 90s, Web 1.0 was Running on a Fully Decentralized Infrastructure by @randhindi
14. Whistleblower Blows Lid on the Decentralized Internet: An Interview with Mr. X by @metamark
15. 2021 - One Year in EOS by @alfredodecandia

Transparency, Democracy!

To ensure that our algorithm isn't misused in any way, we have kept the human factor involved. So every time, our editors vote for their favorite stories from the nomination list to finalize the winners!

So, here are the winners 🎉

In the first place, we have In the 90s, Web 1.0 was Running on a Fully Decentralized Infrastructure by @randhindi

"I believe we are just getting started with Web 3 and Ethereum, and we haven't even seen the full capacity of what it is capable of enabling, just like we hadn't seen anything yet in 1993 with Web 1.0 or in 2005 with Web 2.0. And the best way to choose which project to invest in is to ask yourself: does it compose?"

Whistleblower Blows Lid on the Decentralized Internet: An Interview with Mr. X by @metamark has won the second position!

This month we shared an interview prompt with our community to share their thoughts on the decentralized web. We got a few quality stories, and one of these has won the second prize!

Freedom. Which sounds trivial, as if I am using the technology of the future as a means to collective liberty. The global population are, for better or worse, heading towards a 22nd century lived almost exclusively in the Metaverse, a digital landscape where art, entertainment, culture, and social connections are created, sustained, and ended in binary. If that future is decentralised then it can be free, or at least contain more sustainable liberty.

The choice is inherent.

In the third place, we have The Internet is Broken, But The Metaverse and Web 3.0 Could be the Solution by @futuristiclawyer

''Mark Zuckerberg’s vision of The Metaverse could provide a foresight of where things are heading on the internet’s current path. The idea of “the metaverse” is not something that frightens me in itself. Rather, I think we should be acutely wary of the companies that design it. The addictive quality of social platforms, coupled with the privacy-intrusive ways major technology companies extract user data, should be a major concern for everyone.''

Congratulations to all of the winners! We will contact you for the payments shortly. Know more aboutHackerNoon writing contests here.