HackerNoon, a technology publication read by millions worldwide every month, in partnership with namespace.gg is offering FREE minting of web3 identities for its 50,000+ contributors. TL;DR visit , and click “Mint My Namespace.” profile > web3 Let’s unpack why this matters. Web2 Transgressions, OR How Did We Get Here? We all have identities in the real world via social security, passports, and driving licenses. Our ‘real-world’ activities can be mapped to our identities . Sadly, the same cannot be said for our online identities. Companies like Google and Facebook offer ‘on-ramp’ identities of sorts, but it always comes at the cost of our privacy. Want to play a mobile game? Cool. Give the game developer access to read your call logs and messages. It is preposterous, but it is what we had - . at our discretion for the longest time HackerNoon’s web3 identities enable users (sign up to become a user here) to map their HackerNoon profiles to a wallet of their choice. Thanks to our partnership with namespace.gg, these wallets no longer need to be remembered as long text strings. My wallet is is infinitely more user-friendly than saying my wallet address is 0xjbjbhkb75e7tf8f8yfdeswgyg67f346ss6esxye ( ). hackerhodl.hackernoon this is a randomly typed string - do not send ETH to this address - lol How To Mint Your Web3 Identity on HackerNoon Log in to your HackerNoon account and navigate to your section. profile > web3 Click on ‘Connect Wallet’ and sign the transaction to link any Metamask-compatible wallet address to your HackerNoon account. Once it is successfully connected, click on ‘Mint Namespace’ and sign the transaction. . There is no fee to mint your HackerNoon namespace. Our friends at namespace.gg for all HackerNoon contributors have it covered On successful signature, will be minted and linked to your wallet address. your_username.hackernoon In my case, my namespace is Hackerhodl.hackernoon. That’s it - your web3 identity has been created and linked to your wallet address. For the tech enthusiasts amongst us, on how it works under the hood. here’s the documentation
