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The Commercialization Trap: What Happens When Subculture Goes Mainstream

Using rave culture as a case study, this article examines how autonomous, community-driven movements—from music scenes to crypto—g...

The Crypto Sellout

Jamie Dimon, head of JPMorgan, called crypto a “fraud … worse than tulips” The bank’s token, The JPM Coin, facilitates over $1B in...

A Deeper Look at the Runtime War

The nation-state doesn't need to ban Bitcoin or arrest DAO founders, writes Ray Svitla. The revolution's biggest enemy isn't oppre...

Decentralization vs. Democracy in Crypto: Are They the Same Thing?

Decentralization refers to the distribution of power and infrastructure. Architectural decentralization addresses how many indepen...

The Day I Realized My Smart Contract Was the Bug

The “perfect” on-chain architecture of Web3 payments seemed self-evident, but it wasn’t working. A user would pay a small fee in A...

Web3 jobs in 2025: why the market is not coming back, but growing up

Web3 is no longer building outside the system, but integrating into it. The Web3 job market of 2025 is more demanding, more select...

How Crypto is Getting Centralized (and What We Can Do About It)

Decentralization isn’t just a fancy buzzword to sell digital products, it’s the principle that makes crypto worth trusting in the...

When Amazon Crashed, "Decentralized" Blockchain went Down With it

The October 2025 AWS outage revealed blockchain's dirty secret: despite claims of decentralization, 37% of Ethereum nodes and 70%...

Emerging Tech Companies Must Stop Using Decentralization As An Ideological Gimmi...

The stakes are much higher now with agentic AI, DePIN, and autonomous finance protocols.

Meet Social Links: HackerNoon Company of The Week

HackerNoon spotlights Social Links, a U.S.-based OSINT leader operating in 80+ countries. The company aggregates 500+ data sources...

Private by Design: Why Confidentiality Is the New Competitive Edge in Web3

As Web3 evolves, privacy is becoming the foundation for institutional adoption. Advances in zero-knowledge proofs and modular priv...

The HackerNoon Newsletter: 33 Hot Tech Takes on Atlas, the New AI Browser by Ope...