Great news, hackers and hacktivists! HackerNoon is thrilled to partner with the Sia Foundation, a nonprofit focused on cryptography-powered, decentralized cloud infrastructure, to back up its entire publishing archive. HackerNoon has already stored over 100,000+ existing articles on the Sia network, the world’s safest cloud storage, by design. An additional 2,000+ new articles are expected on Sia every month subsequently. Absolutely massive numbers and a powerhouse partnership, indeed.
This collaboration strengthens HackerNoon’s commitment to independent publishing by ensuring content remains permanently accessible, censorship-resistant, and free from centralized control. It supports the Sia Foundation’s vision for a future where people control their data by default.
Similar to our previous integration with Arweave, this partnership strengthens our commitment to decentralization. By using multiple decentralized protocols, we reduce dependency on any single provider and take concrete steps toward long-term resilience for independent journalism.
#Decentralize-Publishing: Why It Matters
The internet is increasingly controlled by centralized platforms that dictate content visibility, monetization, and accessibility. Traditional cloud storage solutions, while convenient, come with risks such as censorship, content loss due to corporate decisions, paywalls, and single points of failure. This is especially concerning for independent publishers and creators whose work depends on long-term accessibility.
HackerNoon has firsthand experience with these challenges. In 2018, we made the strategic decision to remove Medium Corp’s software from our site. By transitioning to our own infrastructure, we made an effort to keep independent tech content and journalism open and accessible. However, while self-hosting provides more autonomy, it still relies on traditional web hosting services that are vulnerable to outages, legal takedowns, and centralized control. Previously with Arweave and now with Sia, we move closer to a future where no single entity can erase a story, limit its reach, or control its value.
“When you publish with HackerNoon, you’re not just writing for today—you’re contributing to a permanent, censorship-resistant record of internet history,” said HackerNoon Founder & CEO David Smooke. “By decentralizing our archive with Sia, we’re ensuring that no corporation, government, or glitch can erase the voices of our contributors.”
Trustless, Secure Decentralization: Meet Sia
The Sia network is a blockchain-based marketplace powered by data providers and data renters for fully private, secure, and decentralized cloud storage. Sia’s mainnet launched in 2015 with no downtime in its entire history. Sia is supported by the Sia Foundation, Inc., a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.
Information shouldn’t live behind paywalls, and Sia’s tech is a return to what the internet was meant to be: open, neutral, and user-controlled. It’s not just storage, it’s an infrastructure for a freer internet.
“Sia was built on a simple premise – own your keys, own your data. Everyone has a fundamental right to digital privacy. In partnership with HackerNoon, we leverage Sia’s blockchain-backed integrity to guarantee uptime, discoverability, and consistent access.” – Nate Maninger, President of the Sia Foundation.
To celebrate, Sia is launching the Sia x HackerNoon Developer Survey, now open for submissions.
🧪 Spend 10 minutes to help shape our SDK roadmap
🎁 Get a free, limited-edition gift while supplies last
📢 Share your experience with decentralized storage
💡 Tell us what you want to build, and how we can support it
Whether you’re experimenting with dApps, deploying real-world web3 applications, or just exploring what decentralized storage can do, we want to hear from you.
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More About Our Integration
HackerNoon will use the Sia network to implement an automated, decentralized backup system:
- All new and existing stories will be stored on Sia. HackerNoon has stored over 100,000+ existing articles and will add more than 2,000+ new articles every month on the Sia network, all contributed by over 50,000+ independent contributors.
- Readers and developers are able to verify and retrieve content via the decentralized network. See transaction details of the decentralized archive of all articles on sia.hackernoon.com. This subdomain will remain live indefinitely, as long as the Sia Foundation continues to back up HackerNoon content.
This project supports two critical goals:
- Advancing the future of Web3 infrastructure through real-world adoption of decentralized storage
- Strengthening the foundation of independent tech journalism by protecting content from censorship, takedowns, and platform control
Cheers to a more open and decentralized internet where stories are owned by the real contributors, not by centralized entities, gatekeepers, tech & media giants.
