52 Stories To Learn About Decentralized Apps

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11 Oct 2023

Let's learn about Decentralized Apps via these 52 free stories. They are ordered by most time reading created on HackerNoon. Visit the /Learn Repo to find the most read stories about any technology.

1. What is dApp and is it hard to make it?

The concept of a decentralized application was born in the era of the blockchain hype, when all the necessary tools for implementing logic appeared. And the most popular blocking with the necessary tools was Ethereum. Then there were a lot of examples of smart-contracts and examples of decentralized applications. The authors of these applications tried to shift all logic and storage of information on the blockchain. Where it was needed and where it was completely unnecessary. As a result, at it's best, all the logic was implemented using the blockchain and the UI interacted directly. Such applications were quite slow and extremely uncomfortable.

2. If It’s So Awesome, Why Doesn’t Every Company Adopt the DAO Model?

When Ethereum first launched back in 2015, it marked a new era for the blockchain ecosystem. For the first time, anyone could mint their own tokens using the ERC-20 standard, creating a new means of crowdfunding and leading to the heady days of the 2017 ICO boom.

3. The Main Challenges of Decentralization

Decentralization stands in opposition to centralization and is currently rapidly breaking into the world order of the modern world.

4. What is a Dapp and How Do You Improve the Dapp User Experience?

DAPPs Aren’t Great – Yet… The user experience simply hasn’t been good enough. Learn about the solution to improve the user DAPP experience.

5. Dating Apps Make a Compelling Case for Private Blockchain and Web3

Dating apps using private blockchains can quickly verify users’ actual identities through blockchain, eliminating any misrepresentation or identity thefts.

6. Blockchain Voting - The Evolution Of Web Voting Or a New Methodology?

An article about where the idea of blockchain voting came from, its opponents and supporters, privacy and reliability, practical application based on LEO code.

7. Notes on Ethereum Governance and UI/UX Usability in dApps

While most of blockchain and Ethereum in particular, developers only focus on building and testing their DApps, they often forget the end users or customers. That means, they underestimate the importance of UI/UX and governance in their product commercialization and success. To that end, this article sheds more lights on best practices for successfully building Ethereum based on User Interface (UI)/User Experience (UX) and governance.

8. An Introduction to Web5: A New Decentralized Web Venture

Web3 Vs Web5 | Web3 To Web5 Evolution: Web5 Development the New Decentralized Web Venture. Web5 or Web3 which is better?

9. Do dApps Have a Place Post-crypto Craze and What are hApps

dApps seem to grab all headlines these days. Let's find out what these are and whether they stand a chance in the post-pandemic future.

10. Why The Metaverse Is Already Broken (And How To Fix It — Chapter Two)

Let's dive straight into Chapter Two of why the metaverse is broken and let's find out if we can fix it!

11. Introducing Compounding Rewards Feature For Dapp Staking

Astar is introducing its new compounding rewards features which will allow users to claim their staked rewards which will automatically be restaked.

12. Decentralized Internet Is Of The People, By The People, For The People

Take a look at how decentralized apps and crypto-based applications are changing the lives of ordinary people and check the huge opportunity that lies within.

13. 3 Reasons Why Free TON is the 1st Truly Decentralized Blockchain Platform

Free TON blockchain - the ultimate smart contract platform. The user stakes tokens into DePool. Free TON works on the End-to-End decentralization using DeBots.

14. JusticeChain: Using Blockchain ⛓️ to Protect 🇵🇹 Justice Data

If you like blockchain, be sure to quickly check my Github page 🙏

15. The Web3 Stack For People In A Hurry

The Web3 stack is still evolving, but the core components of decentralized technology are beginning to emerge.

16. Can We BUIDL Decentralized Flexible Organizations?

The Decentralized Flexible Organization is a new concept, that reshapes how we’re building Decentralized Applications, solving some critical points of failure in the today’s Dapp ecosystem like the needs of a Legal Known Entity to Trust, the slowly Smart Contract Developing and the Centralized or Distributed Servers Needs.

17. Look Ma! No Gas (fees)..on playing this Layer 2 based Blockchain Solution

A look at Layer 2 Protocols, Ethereum's scalability issues, and the future of decentralized applications

18. EOSMessage - Messages Encrypted on the Blockchain

Use the blockchain to send and receive message, even encrypted one!

19. DeFi: The Disruption Felt 'Round the World'

Legacy banks have held the power for too long. Decentralized Finance put the power back into the hands of the people.

20. Five Learnings from ETHDenver 2020

Come gather ‘round B is for Bufficorn children!

21. Bitcoin Price Smashing The $20k Mark Should Make Ethereum Fans Rejoice More

22. Is Building a Real-Time Blockchain Infrastructure Possible?

Blockchain has gained popularity to remain on the tongue-tips of the majority. However, will this innovation change the manner in which we execute later on?

23. Brief Answers to the Big Questions on MetisDAO

In 1987, W. Brian Arthur was invited to participate in a high-profile and very appealing seminar with nine other phenomena economists and ten physicists at a chapel in Santa Fe, where the cross-domain collaborations among these economists and physicists initiated the glory of Santa Fe Institute and Complex Economy.

24. A Donald Trump Dao Is Here! Who Needs It?

I stumbled upon a rather bizarre discovery last night on JuiceBox, the Ethereum-based fundraising protocol. Yes, you guessed it, A Donald Trump DAO.

25. Inery Aims to Eliminate Entry Barriers to Web3, Blockchain

Web3 Infrastructure is seriously lacking in one department - data systems. Inery addresses the issues of centralized data management

26. Writing Decentralized Applications in JavaScript - Libp2p Basics

Libp2p is the base of the Interplanetary Filesystem and it will be the base of Ethereum 2.0.

27. The Usability of DApps Should be as Simple as Venmo: Interview with Milana Valmont, CEO of KIRA

Milana Valmont, CEO KIRA, Layer 1 network that enables market access to any digital, about DApps market, the current pitfalls, trends, and the future of DApps

28. Resources: Programming Ownership on The Blockchain

Smart contracts are a unique class of software explicitly designed to manage ownership of valuable digital assets. While existing programming environments can be used to keep track of the ownership of assets, they are most typically used in scenarios where they are reflecting ownership rather than defining it directly. Smart contracts are unique in that the value they represent is often embodied directly in the state they maintain.

29. Scouting for Unicorns in a Sea of dApps

The onset of Web 3.0 has been marked by a flurry of decentralised apps (or dApps in short) making their way into our daily lives. dApps take the modular approach to applications and combine it with a non-centralised management structure. In a world, where personal data integrity and freedom of speech is increasingly important, dApps will play a major role in creating a more safe space for end users when it comes to individual privacy and data access liberty.

30. Did You Miss Bitcoin’s Most Revolutionary Feature Too?

With bitcoin’s price gaining steam, you may think it’s about to go mainstream.

31. Introducing Apron Network: A Gateway to Decentralized Infrastructure Services

Apron Network, a project supported by the Web3 Foundation, received early grants from the Web3 Foundation.

32. The Decentralized Web is Here to Stay

Imagine ecentralized YouTube, Facebook, Gmail. Are we there yet and what will the decentralized web for developers look like once it all finishes maturing?

33. The Impact of Smart Contracts in Africa

Looking at the nearest future in Africa where smart contracts take up the export/import trade system of sugarcane as a private manufacturer.

34. Getting Started with Infura's Ethereum API [A Step by Step Guide]

Infura provides developers and enterprises with simple, reliable access to Web3 tools and infrastructure. Our Ethereum and IPFS API suite serves and supports thousands of decentralized applications every day.

35. Inflationary cryptocurrency and domain based identity: A recipe for a decentralized social network

We need to leverage the domain names system and cryptocurrencies to implement an open decentralized global social network.

36. How to Set Up Aleph.im Virtual Machines

Nearing the end of 2021, most blockchain dApps still have large parts of their stack that are centralized. With Aleph VMs, you can decentralize the rest.

37. Decentralized Autonomous Organization - Core Concepts

Core concepts of a DAO. Will it be the next crypto trend? xDAO project.

38. Earn 50 ROSE tokens in the Oasis Second State Hackathon - A Step by Step Guide

Public blockchains enable us to build decentralized web applications (Dapps) that are censorship-resistant and have built-in economic incentives.

39. The Beautiful Double Helix of High Responsiveness and Decentralized Storage in the Web3.0 Era

However, as Web3 technology evolves and matures, it will support deeper verticals such as manufacturing, engineering and smart cities.

40. Solana Supercharges Crypto On The Go By Launching Web 3 Smartphone

The launch of the Saga by Solana could catapult Solana into the league of the big tech, rubbing shoulders with the likes of Samsung and Apple.

41. Elon Musk Is Proving the Need For Decentralization: Here's How

A lot of the popular Web3 business models are trying their best not to rely on advertising from brands or the selling of data to stay solvent.

42. Social Media Breakthrough: Yet Another Reason to Get Paid For Watching the Feed

Social media was a great invention but the innovative wheel got a bit stuck with Instagram and TikTok. With social media platforms getting a whopping amount of $153 billion last year and scandals like the 6th Facebook breach affecting 533 million users, every user now and then asks hard questions.

43. Introducing the CENNZnet DApp and NFT Hackathon

Calling all aspiring DApp devs and aspiring NFT creators. Join us at CENNZnet for our 3-week hackathon in partnership with Gitcoin.

44. Building dApps On Dash: An Interview With readme

With Dash on track to release its long-awaited Dash Platform on Testnet before the end of year, strong developer interest is starting to ramp up in anticipation of its Testnet launch, and Mainnet launch is scheduled for Q1 2021.

45. Challenges in Adoption of Rollup Solutions in Decentralization: An Analysis

Rollups, especially the optimistic rollup, are being considered by the community as the most promising short to medium term Ethereum scaling solution at the moment. The reason is that fundamentally, rollup solutions use data on-chain techniques instead of data off-chain techniques used by other scaling solutions such as Plasma. This choice removes the need for semi-trusted operators and enables generalized scalable side chains.

46. Decentralized Wikipedia based on Aleo

Wiki is not perfect. I present to you the description of Aleo/wiki. With Wikipedia experience, I have sincerely tried to get rid of the biggest bugs.

47. Crypto Series #2 — Zero-Knowledge Oracles, Uniswap, and Decentralized Games

In the previous Crypto Series #1, we did discuss the emerging players in the DeFi ecosystem — CONTRIBUTE, DeFiat, and DEXG. If you didn’t see the first article in this series, I highly recommend giving it a read!

48. Top 20 Blockchain Development Companies to keep tabs on in 2020

No more than a dozen years ago reliability of the blockchain technology was doubted, but by the start of 2020, most professionals have recognized it as a smart solution to business challenges.

49. Ankr's Kev Silk Discusses Navigating the Challenges and Opportunities of Decentralization

The decentralized web brings with it some interesting challenges and opportunities.

50. The Next Phase of Crypto Will be The Age of dApps

This article talks about Polkadot, blockchain data transfer and substrate projects.

51. The Good, The Bad and the Ugly of Consensus 2017

CoinDesk’s Consensus 2017, the blockchain and decentralized app conference of the year, is officially in the books.

52. How to Build a Glorious Web3.0 DAO with React, Solidity, and CometChat

In this tutorial, you will learn step-by-step how to implement a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) with anonymous chat features.

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