#Decentralized-Internet Writing Contest: May/June Results Announced

Hackers rejoice! Here we are again with the #Decentralized-Internet writing contest winners for the month of May and June!

For those who are reading about it for the first time, HackerNoon has built a partnership with Free Ton (Now Everscale) - a decentralized, community-powered blockchain movement for free internet! We're giving away monthly prizes worth $3,500 to the best HackerNoon #Decentralized-Internet stories with this partnership.

Here's how you can participate:

1. Set up an account on HackerNoon
2. Check out the Decentralized Internet Writing Competition's rules
3. Pen your story and submit it with #Decentralized-Internet as one of the tags

How do we shortlist the best stories?

First, we picked all the stories tagged with #Decentralized-Internet on HackerNoon, published in May and June 2021 - This gave us a total of 104 stories.

Then we picked the top 15 stories, as we did last time on the same 60:30:10 weightage respectively to:

• Number of hours read

• Number of people reached

• Freshness of the content

Here is the list of our top 15 contenders:

1. Top 6 Crypto Launchpads in 2021 by @haroonbaig
2. BitClout Creator Coins: A Decentralized Way to Engage with Followers by @benchi
3. Future Technology: AI-enabled Blockchain by @induction
4. What are dApps and How Do They Enable a True Free Market? by @splyt
5. The Evolution of Casinos in the Age of Decentralized Internet by @falconite
6. How We're Building an Open-Source Google Photos Alternative with React Native by @ehsan6sha
7. How to Keep Yourself Safe from Filthy, Dirty Coins by @demchuk
8. How NFTs Can Disrupt the Fantasy Sports Industry by @Ishan Pandey
9. When The Dust Settles: Insights For The Future of Crypto & Blockchain by @MR_Protocol
10. How to Model In-Game NFT Token Economics for Digital Games by @Ishan Pandey
11. Top 5 Smart Contract Platforms on Polkadot for building DApps (A Developer's Guide) by @haroonbaig
12. Look out events industry... NFTs are coming! by @cennznet
13. What the Heck is a Numiz? by @benjaminbateman
14. DeFi: It's Time We Really Started Looking At Blockchains Beyond Ethereum by @mickey-maler
15. Why Decentralized Insurance Will Provide Confidence to DeFi Investors by @Ishan Pandey

Voting time!

We created a poll in HackerNoon's writing contest channel and asked the editors to vote. This time, it took us a week to decide on our favorite stories.

Results

And the winners are Drumroll:

The story that got the highest number of votes is "How We're Building an Open-Source Google Photos Alternative with React Native". Congratulations @ehsan6sha! Editors loved your story. You have won $1500 worth of TON crystals.

On the second position, we have Top 6 Crypto Launchpads in 2021 by @haroonbaig. Your story has been a massive hit Haroon. Congratulations on gaining 20,000+ views and achieving the second position! You have won 1000 TON crystals.

@mickey-maler scored the third position with the story "DeFi: It's Time We Really Started Looking At Blockchains Beyond Ethereum". Yay @mickey-maler! We are looking forward to more stories from you. You have won 700 TON crystals.

On the fourth spot, we have a story on an amalgam of disruptive technologies: Future Technology: AI-enabled Blockchain by @induction. Congratulations on winning 300 TON crystals.

Congratulations

A huge shoutout to all the winners and participants!

We'll be continuing to run this contest through the end of 2021, so you can submit your #decentralized-internet stories to HackerNoon today to have a chance at monthly prizes!

That's it! We'll contact winners for the payments. Enjoy!

Note: Free TON has now rebranded as Everscale.