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

Hello Hackers! In decentralization, we trust, and in our community, we believe! That's why HackerNoon has partnered with Free Ton (Now rebranded as Everscale) to hold a PHENOMENAL Decentralized Internet Writing Contest.

The game is ON!

So who won this time? Let's See 👀:

Top 15 Contenders for the Month of September

First, we picked all the stories tagged with #Decentralized-Internet on HackerNoon, published in September 2021.

Here is the list of our top 15 contenders:

1. Security in The Sea of Decentralized Finance by @elagai
2. Oana Batran, Chainge Finance CBO, on the World's First Decentralized Exchange App by @justin-roberti
3. How Do Yield Aggregators Work? by @elagai
4. Is Decentralisation Even Real? by @sh4rmini
5. The Ultimate Guide to Crypto Tokens by @yourdevopsguy
6. Introducing ANY-Language Smart Contracts by @andrarchy
7. 8 Ways Blockchain Will Change E-Commerce Forever by @bhavjyot
8. Learn the Blockchain Basics - Part 7: What is Inside A Bitcoin Block? by @mickey-maler
9. DeFi and the Rise of Stablecoins by @April
10. How to Explain Blockchain Gaming to Your Grandma by @itooamcraig
11. 3 Reasons Why Free TON is the 1st Truly Decentralized Blockchain Platform by @timdyce
12. What are the Potential Use Cases of Decentralized Finance? by @blockchainaustralia
13. Alchemy in Blockchain, NFTs into the DeFi Space: Madalin from Sphynx Network by @madalinsph
14. The Looming Inflation and How to Hedge Against It by @edward-moon
15. Dissecting Poly Network Hack: What Really Happened by @mishunin

As usual, to make sure our algorithm is not abused or misused in any way, we have kept the human factor in the selection process. Our editors then voted for their favorite stories from the above list.

Winners:

This time, we had a clear winner story with a whopping 44 percent of votes!

How to Explain Blockchain Gaming to Your Grandma by @itooamcraig

Congratulations @itooamcraig! Humor always wins 🔥 You have won 1500 TON.

Here, just let me do it… Okay, Grandma, so you remember how during The Depression you stored all of your money in the walls because you didn't trust the banks, but then that money was eaten by squirrels? Well, think of blockchain technology as the walls, except for this time it's not full of squirrels that will eat your money. And we're not storing regular money in these walls; we're storing something called "digital assets".

Security in The Sea of Decentralized Finance by @elagai won second place with 19% of votes.

In this article, we will not talk about such simple things as the safety of private keys or seeds since this is an axiom for cryptocurrency users.

Here we will tell, for example, how to differentiate between DeFi projects to which you can entrust your funds from projects you need to avoid.

Yay, @elagai you have won 1000 TON crystals!

In the third place, we have Is Decentralisation Even Real? by @sh4rmini with 13% of the votes.

In summary - decentralisation as a concept and philosophy is one of the impulses of the cryptocurrency and digital assets industry. Yet as the industry matures from the fringe and counter-cultural early days towards the institutional inflow of 2021, it is clear that decentralisation and even the rails towards true decentralisation are yet to exist and must be built in collaboration with incumbents.

Couldn’t agree more, @sh4rmini! You have won 500 TON crystals.

On that note, let’s close the announcement.

EVERYONE CAN PARTICIPATE!

See y'all next month!

Note: Free TON has now rebranded as Everscale.