Hey Hackers! Welcome to the second round of results announcement of the ! #Web3 Writing Contest It’s one of our 5 currently running writing competitions with cash prizes to be won! For the Web3 writing contest, HackerNoon has partnered with to give monthly prizes to the best HackerNoon Web3 stories! Just with the , and you’ll be entered to win up to $2000 worth of OCT tokens from our $12000 prize pool each month, from March 1st to August 31st. Octopus Network submit your story #Web3 tag You can use this . template to enter the web3 writing contest So who are April’s lucky winners? #Web3 Writing Contest April 2022 Nominations 🔥 Here’s how we selected the top 10 nominations for the month of April - We picked all the stories tagged with on HackerNoon, published in April 2022. Then we chose the top stories using weightage respectively to: #Web3 60:30:10 Number of hours read Number of people reached The freshness of the content Here are the top 10 nominations: by 6 Interesting Play-to-Earn Games to Look Out For in 2022 @Cryptonite by Why Web3 Requires Complete Decentralisation @finchpr by Building a Classic Web3 NFT Minting Dapp With React and Solidity: Part 2 @daltonic by 3 Major Challenges to Web3 Technology's Adoption @bensoncrypto by How to Build a Web 3.0 App Using React, Solidity, Ethers.js, Hardhat, and Metamask @suhail by A Complete Look at Drops, NFT-Backed Loans and NFT Staking @Cryptonite by Is Web 3.0 The FUTURE or Just a MARKETING Ploy? @contentsavvy by What is Web 3.0 and How It Can Transform the Internet @juxtathinka by How to Work in Web 3, Cryptocurrency? @z3nch4n by Earn 4% Interest on Bitcoin @alfredodecandia And the Winners Are 👀 To make sure that our algorithm is not abused in any way, editors voted for the top stories. Here are the winners: The top prize goes to by ! What is Web 3.0 and How It Can Transform the Internet @juxtathinka If you are reading this, you are an Internet user. is the platform made available to you now, the better and improved futuristic version of the Internet is Web 3.0. is the third generation of internet services designed to focus on using a machine-based understanding of data to provide a data-driven and Semantic Web. The goal is to provide more decentralized, intelligent, secure and connected websites that provide anonymity. Web 2.0 Web 3.0 Thank you for the very illuminating article, ! You’ve won 434 OCT Tokens! @juxtathinka In second place is by ! Why Web3 Requires Complete Decentralisation @finchpr Web 2.0 is about control, Web3 is about freedom. Web 2.0 is about conglomerates, Web3 is about people. And yet, the current trend is for Web 2.0 companies to attempt at ‘greater relevance’ by aligning themselves with today’s keywords such as ‘metaverse’ and, of course, Web3. Yet, a tagline does not an infrastructure make, as Minima explains and expands upon here. Well done, ! You’ve won 260 OCT Tokens! @finchpr In third place, we’ve got by ! How to Build a Web 3.0 App Using React, Solidity, Ethers.js, Hardhat, and Metamask @suhail The greatest approach to improve your Web 3.0 skills is to use them to create coding projects. But building them from scratch and adding different libraries can be challenging. This is why in this article we will be creating a simple full-stack application using React, Hardhat, Solidity, Ethers.js, and Metamask which can be used as a boilerplate for our future projects. This article is going to come in handy! Congratulations, ! You have won 86 Oct Tokens! @suhail Finally, the story with the most views is by ! Why Web3 Requires Complete Decentralisation @finchpr This one needs no explanation again, but congratulations on your second win ! You’ve won 86 more Oct Tokens! @finchpr That’s all, hackers! See y'all next time, with more prizes and more contests coming your way! Keep an eye on for more details. We will contact the winners shortly. contests.hackernoon.com Remember, you can use this . template to enter the web3 writing contest