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Welcome to HackerNoon Startups of the Week! Each week, the HackerNoon team showcases a list of startups from our Startups of The Year database. All these startups have been nominated as one of the best in their respective category or region. This week, we’re pleased to bring you Exohood Labs, Avilo, and Luna AI.

Our analysis reveals significant spikes in inscription transactions on Arbitrum and zkSync Era, with inscriptions dominating daily transactions. Protocols like FAIR-20 and ZRC-20 are prominent, with LAYER2-20 being dominant across all rollups. Despite high transaction activity, inscription tokens are still not actively traded on the platforms.

Domain-Driven Design (DDD) is crucial for skill game development, offering clear system boundaries, improved team communication, and efficient architecture for complex multiplayer games. It addresses unique challenges such as game state consistency and performance trade-offs by structuring the system into bounded contexts.

SVEXA combines AI, physiology, and precision health to optimize human performance. Serving sports tech, military, and corporate health, they offer algorithm licensing, software, and consulting. Their proprietary tech integrates diverse data sources to deliver hyper-personalized insights. With award-winning innovations, SVEXA aims to lead the shift from raw data to actionable intelligence.

How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, February 5, 2025? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, we present you with these top quality stories. From Win Up to $2000 in the #blockchain Writing Contest by Aleph Cloud and HackerNoon to 🏆 Startups of ...

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The study gathers data from Ethereum and rollups like zkSync Era, Arbitrum, Optimism, and Base to analyze inscription transactions. It identifies key patterns, including a high concentration of transactions from a small number of issuers and significant blockchain activity in zkSync Era and Arbitrum.

Welcome to HackerNoon Decoded—the ultimate recap of the Society stories, writers, and trends that defined 2024! Explore the top Society stories that captivated our readers, meet the leading writers who shaped the discourse, and celebrate the standout readers who enriched our community. Let's dive into the best of 2024!

I built a sci-fi bass from scratch, packed with a synth, a wireless transmitter, a hacked built-in tuner and voltmeters. This monster runs on lithium batteries, charging like your smartphone. Is it perfect? Heck no. But sounds cool. There you go!

This section explains inscriptions and ordinals, detailing key operations like deploy, mint, and transfer. It compares inscription-based tokens to NFTs and ERC-20 tokens, highlighting differences in functionality, scalability, and trading mechanisms.

HackerNoon is upgrading its AI detector from Originality.ai to Pangram. The tool came under HackerNoon’s radar after an excellent deep-dive by Wired on the proliferation of AI-generated content. Learn more about this tool here.

Jacob Beckerman spent $600k to buy "macro.com" when his start up only had $2 million. The go-big or go-home mentality had a surprising effect.

Discover how Flare and Google Cloud are testing offchain compute methods to enhance blockchain verification at UC Berkeley.

HackerNoon's "Startups of The Year" voting wraps up on March 31, 2025. This event celebrates leading startups worldwide, with current top contenders including Sprinto, Peris.ai, and SECUREU. Major cities leading in votes are San Francisco, Singapore, and Bengaluru. Dominant industries in the race include Data Privacy and Compliance, Cybersecurity Services and Products, and IT Services. Cast your vote and learn more in this blog...

AI has rapidly transformed software development, with 75% of developers using AI coding tools like ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot. While AI boosts developer efficiency, it also introduces new security risks, including "Shadow AI" – unmanaged AI usage within organizations. This can lead to uncontrolled vulnerabilities, data leaks, and compliance violations. However, AI also offers solutions, from discovering shadow AI to enabling semantic code analysis...

This section explains the basics of Layer-1 and Layer-2 solutions, including rollups that scale blockchain networks. It also details how rollups use optimistic or zero-knowledge proofs to secure transactions and lower gas costs, with examples like zkSync Era and Arbitrum.

Selecting the right endpoint protection platform (EPP) is critical for cybersecurity. Evaluate solutions based on technical features, cost, scalability, and vendor reliability. Consider factors like real-time threat detection, integration with existing systems, and operational impact. Top platforms include CrowdStrike, Cortex XDR, Trend Vision One, Check Point Harmony, and Sophos Intercept X.

Exploring the ethical crossroads of data control, this analysis calls for transparency, accountability, and education to protect individual rights.

Contrasting utilitarian and Kantian views on surveillance: when invisible control for safety clashes with individual autonomy and privacy rights.

Exploring Kantian ethics in surveillance capitalism, this paper debates privacy, autonomy, and consent in today's data-driven advertising landscape.

The Ukraine war has become a proving ground for AI, drones, and autonomous systems, fundamentally reshaping modern warfare. Both Ukraine and Russia are rapidly investing in battlefield automation, leading to drone swarms, robotic ground vehicles, and AI-assisted targeting. The arms race for unmanned systems is accelerating, and its impact on future global conflicts will be significant.

While the potential shutdown of USAID represents a significant shift in American foreign policy, perhaps it also offers an opportunity to rethink how we approach international development.

Coin3D enhances interactive 3D modeling with proxy-bounded part editing and progressive volume caching. Users can edit specific object parts while preserving others, ensuring seamless integration. The caching mechanism enables instant previews from any viewpoint. Additionally, volume-conditioned reconstruction improves mesh quality by integrating 3D-aware control, making modeling more efficient and precise.