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01 / EXPLORE THROUGH TIME

Timeline

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Show HN: FablePool – pool money behind a prompt, and Fable builds it in public↗ fablepool.com · HN · 276 comments · 526 points · Jun 11, 2026
Show HN: Freenet, a peer-to-peer platform for decentralized apps↗ freenet.org · HN · 271 comments · 390 points · May 21, 2026
How Monero’s proof of work works↗ blog.alcazarsec.com · HN · 225 comments · 318 points · May 04, 2026
Caveman: Why use many token when few token do trick↗ github.com · HN · 366 comments · 904 points · Apr 05, 2026
Show HN: s@: decentralized social networking over static sites↗ satproto.org · HN · 218 comments · 414 points · Mar 12, 2026
2025799 stories
Stripe Launches L1 Blockchain: Tempo↗ tempo.xyz · HN · 1072 comments · 808 points · Sep 04, 2025
Are we decentralized yet?↗ arewedecentralizedyet.online · HN · 279 comments · 492 points · Aug 30, 2025
Zedless: Zed fork focused on privacy and being local-first↗ github.com · HN · 322 comments · 556 points · Aug 20, 2025
The future of Rebble↗ rebble.io · HN · 27 comments · 381 points · Jan 27, 2025
Ask HN: Organize local communities without Facebook?↗ news.ycombinator.com · HN · 384 comments · 407 points · Jan 21, 2025
2024726 stories
The semantic web is now widely adopted↗ csvbase.com · HN · 259 comments · 455 points · Aug 21, 2024
Ethereum has blobs. Where do we go from here?↗ vitalik.eth.limo · HN · 489 comments · 271 points · Mar 28, 2024
Scuttlebutt social network: a decentralised platform↗ scuttlebutt.nz · HN · 138 comments · 231 points · Feb 23, 2024
Bluesky and the AT Protocol: Usable decentralized social media↗ arxiv.org · HN · 276 comments · 245 points · Feb 06, 2024
Meshtastic: An open source, off-grid, decentralized, mesh network↗ meshtastic.org · HN · 78 comments · 335 points · Jan 01, 2024
2023918 stories
Centralization, Decentralization, and Internet Standards↗ rfc-editor.org · HN · 22 comments · 84 points · Dec 30, 2023
Make Ethereum Cypherpunk Again↗ vitalik.eth.limo · HN · 65 comments · 70 points · Dec 28, 2023
Building a decentralized name system on top of IRC↗ roberts.pm · HN · 63 comments · 85 points · Dec 25, 2023
Leaving the Web3 cult↗ dope.bearblog.dev · HN · 19 comments · 66 points · Jul 20, 2023
Mastering Monero: The future of private transactions [pdf]↗ masteringmonero.com · HN · 21 comments · 57 points · May 26, 2023
20222,170 stories
The Ethereum merge is done↗ coindesk.com · HN · 1549 comments · 1407 points · Sep 15, 2022
Mainnet Merge Announcement↗ blog.ethereum.org · HN · 586 comments · 556 points · Aug 24, 2022
Web3 is centralized and inefficient↗ neelc.org · HN · 750 comments · 801 points · Mar 23, 2022
It’s not still the early days of blockchain↗ blog.mollywhite.net · HN · 1054 comments · 554 points · Jan 15, 2022
My First Impressions of Web3↗ moxie.org · HN · 1129 comments · 3393 points · Jan 07, 2022
20211,980 stories
Proof of stake is incapable of producing a consensus↗ yanmaani.github.io · HN · 796 comments · 786 points · Nov 28, 2021
The Problem with Ethereum↗ tomerstrolight.medium.com · HN · 316 comments · 440 points · Aug 11, 2021
Why Decentralised Applications Don’t Work↗ ingrids.space · HN · 296 comments · 423 points · May 23, 2021
Ethereum will use around 99.95% less energy post merge↗ blog.ethereum.org · HN · 1690 comments · 1661 points · May 18, 2021
std::unique_ptr implementation backed by Ethereum NFTs↗ github.com · HN · 84 comments · 559 points · Apr 11, 2021
20201,291 stories
Ethereum 2.0 launches↗ twitter.com · HN · 606 comments · 629 points · Dec 01, 2020
CRDTs are the future↗ josephg.com · HN · 312 comments · 1181 points · Sep 28, 2020
Ethereum Is a Dark Forest↗ medium.com · HN · 447 comments · 553 points · Aug 28, 2020
A look at the Gemini protocol: a brutally simple alternative to the web↗ toffelblog.xyz · HN · 347 comments · 415 points · Jul 04, 2020
Inrupt, Tim Berners-Lee's Solid, and Me↗ schneier.com · HN · 181 comments · 384 points · Feb 23, 2020
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02 / CATCH UP

The conversation now

Popular stories, with attention fading over roughly two weeks.

Reticulum – Decentralized Mesh Network↗ reticulum.network · HN · 81 comments · 232 points · Aug 16, 2026
The Cryptographic World Computer↗ vitalik.eth.limo · HN · 1 comments · 9 points · Sep 27, 2026
Digital Sovereignty is written in PHP↗ thephp.foundation · HN · 2 comments · 43 points · Sep 02, 2026
Building a decentralized bulletin board (and accidentally reinventing Nostr)↗ en.andros.dev · HN · 0 comments · 41 points · Aug 31, 2026
Nostr vs. Fediverse vs. Bluesky: A Comparison of Decentralized Social Protocols↗ soapbox.pub · HN · 0 comments · 55 points · Aug 25, 2026

03 / GO DEEPER

Follow your curiosity

Find a particular story, revisit a year, or see what resonated.

Highest rated · the last 30 days

Digital Sovereignty is written in PHP↗ thephp.foundation · HN · 2 comments · 43 points · Sep 02, 2026
Building a decentralized bulletin board (and accidentally reinventing Nostr)↗ en.andros.dev · HN · 0 comments · 41 points · Aug 31, 2026
There is no such thing as full decentralization↗ en.andros.dev · HN · 0 comments · 25 points · Aug 31, 2026
Building a decentralized bulletin board (and accidentally reinventing Nostr)↗ en.andros.dev · HN · 0 comments · 21 points · Aug 30, 2026
The Cryptographic World Computer↗ vitalik.eth.limo · HN · 1 comments · 9 points · Sep 27, 2026
Show HN: Trading on-chain with 0 gas: A <1ms DEX router at 0.50% fees↗ rhopool.com · HN · 0 comments · 9 points · Sep 17, 2026
Decentralized Social Medias↗ github.com · HN · 0 comments · 6 points · Sep 22, 2026
Ask HN: What Makes Tokens Expensive?↗ news.ycombinator.com · HN · 9 comments · 5 points · Sep 17, 2026
Show HN: Proof-native smart contracts without a transaction archive↗ colosseum.com · HN · 0 comments · 4 points · Sep 26, 2026
Practical Decentralization↗ pfrazee.com · HN · 0 comments · 4 points · Sep 23, 2026

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