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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...

The Myth of “Instant Decentralization” in Crypto Networks

The word “decentralization” is used as a badge of honor in the crypto world. But there’s no such thing as instant decentralization...

Polygon Vs. Ethereum? That’s Something New! or Maybe Not?

Polygon is a sidechain, not a rival to Ethereum. Polygon team has done nothing to filter out spam on the network. The network has...

How 0G Storage Plans to Solve the $76 Billion Problem Every AI Company Faces

0G Labs launched its Aristotle Mainnet in September 2025 with a storage layer designed for AI workloads, achieving 2 GB/s throughp...

Meet OpenxAI: HackerNoon Company of the Week

This week, we are featuring OpenxAI, a decentralized, permissionless AI ecosystem that aims to transform the existing AI landscape...