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 (Now Everscale), to give away monthly prizes to the best HackerNoon stories! Free Ton #Decentralized-Internet Here's how you can participate in the decentralized internet writing contest: on HackerNoon. Set up an account the . Check out Decentralized Internet Writing Competition's rules and submit it with as one of the tags. Pen your story #Decentralized-Internet 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 on HackerNoon, published in October 2021. Then we chose the top 15 stories using weightage respectively to: tagged with #Decentralized-Internet 60:30:10 Number of hours read Number of people reached Freshness of the content Here is the list of our top 15 contenders: by by $SHIB: My Journey Through the Deepest Recesses and High Command of a $10 Billion Decentralized Army @jayderenthal IOTA vs. IoTeX: The Battle of the IoT Blockchains @dean by Why The Metaverse will be Bigger than Facebook and Google Combined @mickey-maler by How To Own A Piece Of The New Web With Web 3.0 @kadeemclarke by by by How The Metaverse Relies on The Data Economy @kiba Learn the Blockchain Basics With Sovryn: An Outline @mickey-maler 3 Best Cross-Chain Solutions To Use In 2021/2022 @andreyaks by The Evolution of Crypto Fundraising: IDO as an Alternative? @golubev by by MetaHistory: Memoirs of a UMN Genesis Citizen @boubbhastories Can the NFT Save the Digital Magazine? @alfredodecandia by Metaverse: The Gateway to an Alternate Reality @falconite by Tavern Lecture Two: A Fantastical Discourse on NFTs, Tokens, Milk, and an Inebriated NFT Avatar @phantasee by WTF is The Fediverse? @hellquist by Media Freedom: Using Decentralization to Win the Social Struggle @gabrieldotorg by The Ultimate Guide to Web 3.0 - The History and Future of the Web @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 are winners Drumroll 🥁 by won the first position and 1500 TON crystals. How To Own A Piece Of The New Web With Web 3.0 @kadeemclarke 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 by How The Metaverse Relies on The Data Economy @kiba Congratulations! You have won 1000 TON crystals! The Metaverse isn't just built on the Data Economy, . 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. the Data Economy is the Metaverse Last but not the least, we have by The Ultimate Guide to Web 3.0 - The History and Future of the Web @suhail has won 500 TON crystals! @suhail 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. The competition will last till the end of this year. See the . Remember, decentralization is for everyone. rules here EVERYONE CAN PARTICIPATE! See y'all next month! Please contact to claim your prize money. hang@hackernoon.com Note: . Free TON has now rebranded as Everscale