#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 - 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:

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:

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 worth of 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 worth of 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 worth of 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!