Decentralized Web Writing Competition 2022: January Results Announced!

Hey Hackers!

Welcome to another announcement of the HackerNoon Decentralized Web Writing Contest!

HackerNoon has partnered with Everscale to give monthly prizes to the best HackerNoon decentralization stories!

Here we are again to celebrate our amazing writers!

Excitement, excitement, excitement!  🎉

January 2022 Nominations 🔥

1. 4 Defi Platforms with NFT Gaming to Watch in 2022 by @cryptounfolded
2. How to Make an NFT: Minting, Trading, and Monetizing for Beginners by @falconite
3. 5 Upcoming Play to Earn Games to Keep your Eye On by @eugenefried
4. Modpol is a Self-Governance Toolkit for Communities in Online Worlds by @ntnsndr
5. The Crypto Economy is Too Conservative and it's Your Fault by @twkaiser
6. The Sad Truth About OpenSea by @alfredodecandia
7. How to Scale the Metaverse with Decentralized Web3 Computing by @marvintong
8. How to Build an Ethereum Transaction App with React and Solidity: Part 2 by @daltonic
9. Web3 Enables Users to Create and Own their Web Experience by @Ishan Pandey
10. Down the Crypto Rabbit Hole: How I Got Started by @cryptomadhatter
11. Tech isn't the Barrier to NFT-Game Interoperability by @adriankrionofspielworks
12. The Family Tree of Webs: From Web 1.0 to Web 3.0 by @pavelukraine
13. 12 Best IDO Launchpads in 2022 by @stephenray
14. How to Start Investing in NFTs: For Complete Beginners by @adamfard
15. Is Satoshi Nakamoto Back? by @alfredodecandia

And the Winners Are 👀

As usual, the editors voted for the top stories, and as usual, it was tough to choose the top three!

In the first place, we have How to Make an NFT: Minting, Trading, and Monetizing for Beginners by @falconite, with about 7000 reads and 27% of the total votes.

The audio-visual representation of an NFT comes from media files linked to the token's metadata. The media files can be static images, gifs, 3D objects, video, audio etc. They can be created anywhere by the artist and then hosted on any storage. Minting an NFT involves creating a token on a blockchain whose URI points to this file link. So, when anybody "sees" the NFT, they are basically looking at the stored media linked to it.

With 20% of the total votes, we have Is Satoshi Nakamoto Back? by @alfredodecandia in the second place.

Although that message may come from the owner account of Satoshi Nakamoto, it is certainly probable that the relative account was forced by someone and has recovered the login credentials of the relative account, which also happened with his main e-mail address, and therefore this account may have had the same fate as well.

In the third place, we have The Crypto Economy is Too Conservative and it's Your Fault by @twkaiser (13% votes)

Despite crypto’s apparent transparency, the world of crypto assets is actually a vast and opaque forest full of mud holes and pitfalls. In the end, the investment decisions you make do not only affect your personal wealth, but also the whole crypto ecosystem.

So choose wisely which projects are worthwhile to support and which are merely quick cash-grabs that should be avoided. Learn what the industry is about and always do your own research before making any investment. Sure, this takes a lot of time, but it will ultimately pay off.

On that note, see y'all next time, with more prizes and more contests coming your way! Keep an eye on contests.hackernoon.com for more details!