#Noonies2021 Awards: Winners in the Decentralization Category

For 2021, Hacker Noon went all out for its annual Noonies Awards, making it the biggest Noonies to date.

The theme for the awards can be deemed More. Because we had more categories, more sub-categories, more nominees, than ever before, and you guessed it, there will be more winners too!

In case you don’t believe us, here are some stats:

• 4,961 nominees for one (or more) of the

• 586 Hacker Noon awards for 2021,

• across 6 award categories: Decentralization, Gaming, Internet Heroes, Internet, Software Development, and Technology.

• and a monumental 105,122 votes cast over at noonies.tech

The Decentralization award category honors those individuals and organizations contributing toward a decentralized world, as well as the writers shining a spotlight on decentralization today.

This category alone had 22 Awards.

The Noonies Winners Annoucement series will announce some of the top founders, hackers, and makers in all 6 categories.

Decentralization, as an idea and movement, aims to decentralize power and decentralize governance itself.

Be it cryptocurrencies, decentralized finance, or decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs), there are many developers, entrepreneurs, and companies working hard to create the technology that makes decentralization possible.

Now, without further delay...Here are all the winners in Decentralization:

List of Awards in the Decentralization Category

Best Crypto-Journalist

What happens on Blockchain stays on the Blockchain - until someone gets hurt. This award recognizes the best crypto-journalists of 2021

and the winner is….

Sergey Golubev

Best Crypto-Wallet

Not your keys, not your crypto. This award recognizes the best crypto-wallet of 2021 and the winner is….

Guarda Wallet

Best Decentralized Exchange

Your airdropped coin is not listed on any exchange? Set up a liquidity pool and get trading. This award recognizes the best decentralized exchange of 2021

and the winner is….

DeFiChain

Best Source of Crypto-News

When you're in crypto, you need to know where the butterfly flapped its wings so that you can go all-in (or cash-out) at the right time. This award recognizes the fountains of news regarding all things crypto

and the winner is….

Xenia von Wedel, President of TransformGroup

Biggest Blockchain Bro

This dude is absolutely crushin' it on the blockchain, bro. 🤑

and the winner is….

Douglas Horn

Breakout Blockchain

Ethereum gave us smart contracts which gave us self-confessing ETH-killer Blockchains. This award recognizes the Blockchain that is most likely to unseat Ethereum

and the winner is….

Telos

Centralization Vanquisher of The Year

These nominees WILL NOT STOP until decentralization becomes a reality. 😤

and the winner is….

Dominic Ryder

Cryptocurrency Podcast of the Year

The crypto podcast you actually learn from and enjoy listening to. Decentralize the internet!

and the winner is….

The Cryptoshow

HackerNoon Dappacious Writer

Puritans would still differentiate between what constitutes a dApp and what should be Web3. This award recognizes the best dApp stories on HackerNoon

and the winner is….

Igor Ponomarev

HackerNoon's Altcoin Champion

Shitcoins, Rugpulls, and NGMI - Altcoins have been called a lot of names, from inside and outside the crypto-community. This award recognizes the best coverage of altcoins on HackerNoon

and the winner is….

Tran Hung, CEO - UQUID

HackerNoon's Biggest BUIDLer of Blockchain

Some say, Blockchain, not bitcoin, is where the magic lies. This award recognizes the best Blockchain story on HackerNoon

and the winner is….

Douglas Horn, Chief Architect of Telos Blockchain

HackerNoon's Bitcoin Crusader

Bitcoin can never be turned off and this fact turns on a lot of people on (and at) Twitter. This award recognizes the best bitcoin stories on HackerNoon

and the winner is….

Benhodlin

HackerNoon's Decentralizer

Decentralize Everything was a war-cry of the 2017 ICO Boom. This award recognizes the best decentralization stories on HackerNoon

and the winner is….

Douglas Horn

HackerNoon's DeFi Degen

Did you know that DeFi and its 10000% Daily Gainzzz is the reason behind the end of crypto-winter. This award recognizes the best DeFi stories on HackerNoon

and the winner is….

Sergey Baloyan

HackerNoon's NFT Wizard

NFTs are Schrodinger's baseball card.

This award recognizes the best NFT writer on HackerNoon

and the winner is….

Christian Kameir

HackerNoon's Regulation-Nation

Only death and taxes are certain, said the regulator. This award recognizes the best regulation stories on HackerNoon and the winner is….

lamat

HackerNoon's Smart Contractor

Vitalik Buterin rues the fact that he used the term 'smart contract' when these persistent scripts are neither smart and nor are they contracts. The term now generates millions of dollars every month.

This award recognizes the best smart contract stories on HackerNoon

and the winner is….

Telos EVM

HackerNoon's Top Trading Alpha Provider

Stock Markets are for the faint of heart. In crypto, we're either becoming millionaires or applying for an extra shift at McDonalds. This award recognizes the pack leader of the planet of the risk-takers. and the winner is….

Crypto Fundamentals

HackerNoon's Whitehatter

Everything that can be hacked will be hacked. Everything that cannot be hacked shall also get hacked. This award recognizes the best HackerNoon stories on preventing crypto-hacks, rug-pulls, and such shenanigans

and the winner is….

Master Mind Content

Memecoin of 2021

Much Wow, memes, pepes, and giggles. Memecoins have unseated many a 'solid' project in terms of market cap, for the lulz. This award recognizes the best memecoin of 2021 and the winner is….

Shiba Inu Token

MVP of Web3

Web3 is the inevitable death of Facebook. This is why Mark Z. is looking at metaverses. This award recognizes those Web3 technologies that are most likely to ensure our online privacy and the winner is….

Mariano Conti

Naval Ravikant of Crypto

Some folks make so much sense that it is scary, good, and reassuring at the same time. This award recognizes the dropper of wisdom from the years to come and the winner is….

Ryan Selkis

More Information:

If you’re a winner, please answer this interview! If you’re a reader, participant, or just a curious individual, consider answering one of our other interviews here.

Read about the Noonies here. To see all of the winners you may visit this site, pick any award, and view the name that appears at the top.

Or follow this account for posts with the list of names released over the course of the week of February 14, 2022.

The Noonies Winners Annoucement series will announce some of the top founders, hackers, and makers in all 6 categories.

Thank you to all of our sponsors!

We truly appreciate your contribution to the tech world and thus the future! The Noonies Awards are sponsored by: Bybit, Avast, TECH Domains and hosted by: HackerNoon

This post was written by Zaeem Shoaib.