The Web3 Writing Contest 2022: Final Round's Results Announced!

Heyo Hackers, the wait is over. As promised, here we are with the final announcement of the Web3 Writing Contest sponsored by Octopus Network!

The contest is a great, great success!

• Over the span of 6 months, we published 439 stories (HackerNoon’s acceptance rate is roughly around 50%!).

• These stories generated almost half a million reads and more than three months of reading time!

• The contest has also got much love on social media, getting hundreds of mentions and almost 100,000 engagements on the bird app, a.k.a Twitter alone!

  
  

A huge shoutout to the HackerNoon community for participating. Our Editorial team believes that this contest got some real high-quality stories!

Now without further ado, let’s see who won!

The Web3 Writing Contest: Top 10 Nominations, August 2022

1. Millennials Need Decentralized Social Media - Here's Why by @amira
2. Mysterious Axie Infinity Whale Holds 22 Billion Smooth Love Potion (SLP) by @michaelbenko
3. Mapping the Web3 Abyss by @twkaiser
4. Why is Web3 Failing? by @pragatvyawahare
5. Elon Musk Shows the Limits of Smart Contracts by @masonpelt
6. How To Write a Solidity Smart Contract and Deploy it on Ropsten by @johnjvester
7. Super Bad Series - a Bro Story by @jillian-godsil
8. The hauntology of business by @lambisdion
9. Defining The Metaverse with Charles Read: The New Internet Experience Built By Gamers by @btcread
10. If You Don’t Know About NFTs then You’re ngmi by @adam-stieb

Winners!

As usual, the editors voted for their favorite stories. However - this time, we shared an exclusive feature on how the editors review and vote for them. Here are the winners:

With 29% of the votes, Millennials Need Decentralized Social Media - Here's Why by @amira has won the first position!

“This is a real database problem. Relational DBs are a mess and with decentralization, we can have decentralized IDs mapped platform-agnostically.” - HackerNoon Editor

Congratulations, @amira! Your story is also the internet’s favorite this month! You’ve won 434+86 = 520 OCT Tokens.

With 21% votes, Mysterious Axie Infinity Whale Holds 22 Billion Smooth Love Potion (SLP) by @michaelbenko has won second place and 260 Oct Tokens!

“The story got nice coverage around the web - Cointelegraph, Investing dotcom, FXStreet, etc. https://twitter.com/hackernoon/status/1565761417076252672?ref=hackernoon.com” - HackerNoon Editor”

Congratulations, @michaelbenko! Investigative journalism FTW!

Defining The Metaverse with Charles Read: The New Internet Experience Built By Gamers by @btcread has won third place with 11% of the total votes!

“Unadulterated rage expressed as a story. I love it. "What if I told you that this decaying corporate aesthetic (for which, among other things, Meta spent 10 billion in 2021) is not the problem, but a symptom of our terminal condition?"

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"Beneath the glossy pages of their reports that outline the opportunity for total vertical and horizontal business expansion, lies an unmistakable sense of emptiness filled with nostalgia. We are compelled to put on our headsets and escape in a high-fidelity digital world, uncannily similar to ours. In this world, cartoonish faces with features reduced to a minimum atop floating torsos and disembodied hands (we can’t accurately render full arms in commercially available VR machines) engage in all too familiar activities: playing chess or tennis, standing in front of landmarks, concert going, or otherwise socializing."

def getting my vote - even if I have to remove 1 from the others.” - HackerNoon Editor

@btcread, you’ve got the longest appreciation note from one of our most BRUTALLY HONEST editors! You have won 86 OCT Tokens.

Congratulations to all the winners. We will contact you all shortly. Shoutout to our sponsor Octopus Network, and the HackerNoon community for making it a BIG success. Want to know more about HackerNoon writing contests? Visit contests.hackernoon.com today. You can write to win from the $70,000 prize pool!