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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...

Inside OpenxAI: Founder Ashton Hettiarachi on the Mission to Decentralize and De...

OpenxAI is the first peer-to-peer permissionless AI protocol. Anyone can host an AI agent or application, own the entire infrastru...

The Ledger That Could Replace Equifax Forever

It won’t be overnight. Equifax won’t disappear with a single blockchain but its obsolescence is coming. Imagine a future where cre...

Building Actual Peer-to-peer Applications: Outside Misconceptions

Peer-to-peer (P2P) applications are often misunderstood as insecure, illegal file-sharing networks that operate without any server...