#Decentralized-Internet Writing Competition 2021: October Results Announced!

Heyo Hackers! October has been a great month! This Fall, we received some superb #decentalized-internet stories, and now it is time to celebrate our contributors.

ALL HAIL TO DECENTRALIZATION!

That's why HackerNoon has partnered with Free Ton (Now Everscale), to give away monthly prizes to the best HackerNoon #Decentralized-Internet stories!

Here's how you can participate in the decentralized internet writing contest:

• 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.

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

Top 15 Nominations

As usual, we picked all the stories tagged with #Decentralized-Internet on HackerNoon, published in October 2021. Then we chose the top 15 stories using 60:30:10 weightage respectively to:

• Number of hours read
• Number of people reached
• Freshness of the content

Here is the list of our top 15 contenders:

$SHIB: My Journey Through the Deepest Recesses and High Command of a $10 Billion Decentralized Army by @jayderenthal IOTA vs. IoTeX: The Battle of the IoT Blockchains by @dean

Why The Metaverse will be Bigger than Facebook and Google Combined by @mickey-maler

How To Own A Piece Of The New Web With Web 3.0 by @kadeemclarke

How The Metaverse Relies on The Data Economy by @kiba Learn the Blockchain Basics With Sovryn: An Outline by @mickey-maler 3 Best Cross-Chain Solutions To Use In 2021/2022 by @andreyaks

The Evolution of Crypto Fundraising: IDO as an Alternative? by @golubev

MetaHistory: Memoirs of a UMN Genesis Citizen by @boubbhastories Can the NFT Save the Digital Magazine? by @alfredodecandia

Metaverse: The Gateway to an Alternate Reality by @falconite

Tavern Lecture Two: A Fantastical Discourse on NFTs, Tokens, Milk, and an Inebriated NFT Avatar by @phantasee

WTF is The Fediverse? by @hellquist

Media Freedom: Using Decentralization to Win the Social Struggle by @gabrieldotorg

The Ultimate Guide to Web 3.0 - The History and Future of the Web by @suhail

Voting!

We created a poll in HackerNoon's writing contest channel and asked the editors to vote. This time, there was a tie between the top three stories!

Each of these three got 15% of the votes. So we decided to rank them according to their overall score.

Winners

And the winners are Drumroll 🥁

How To Own A Piece Of The New Web With Web 3.0 by @kadeemclarke won the first position and 1500 TON crystals.

The world has seen lots of inventions and innovations, but the introduction of the internet has been so far one of the greatest gifts to humanity. Web 3 is the latest wave of the internet that is already changing how users utilize and interact with the web.

In the second place, we have How The Metaverse Relies on The Data Economy by @kiba

Congratulations! You have won 1000 TON crystals!

The Metaverse isn't just built on the Data Economy, the Data Economy is the Metaverse. Data-centric, chain-agnostic frameworks are what truly create the Metaverse and bring value to its experiences. The more Metaverse projects and blockchain games utilize these data-services the more exciting, innovative products they will be able to provide to their users. They will also be reducing the amount of technical infrastructure and overhead they will have to maintain by outsourcing it to decentralized protocols which frees their resources to invest into more R&D making them more competitive in the market and ensuring their success.

Last but not the least, we have The Ultimate Guide to Web 3.0 - The History and Future of the Web by @suhail

@suhail has won 500 TON crystals!

Web 3's network is decentralized, meaning it is not controlled by a single organization, and the decentralized applications (apps) created on top of it are open.

On that note, let’s close the announcement.

EVERYONE CAN PARTICIPATE!

See y'all next month!

Note: Free TON has now rebranded as Everscale.