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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 ROW Marketing Agency, Violet, & YellowMay.

DeFi's reliance on variable rates limits institutional adoption. DELV’s Hyperdrive protocol brings fixed-rate yield and borrowing, offering stability, efficiency, and seamless integration with top DeFi platforms. By optimizing liquidity provisioning and enabling tokenized fixed-income products, DELV is paving the way for structured, long-term investment in decentralized finance.

Traditional performance testing focuses on metrics like response times and max load but often ignores user experience and business impact. A more effective approach includes user journey simulations, frustration metrics, conversion tracking, and resilience testing under real-world conditions. Teams must go beyond numbers, integrating business goals and user insights to ensure true application success.

Discover how 51nodes and World Mobile’s $5 million grant program is funding 50 innovative projects to drive Industry 5.0, supported by major corporations and cutting-edge decentralized solutions.

Funtico and FunNFT launch Mystery Tournaments on March 14, 2025. The tournaments feature three games, offering a prize pool of 1,500 USDT and 75,000 $TICO, Funtico’s native token. The event tests how digital assets connect to competitive play.

The emergence of cryptocurrency has greatly impacted the financial system around the world. Some countries recognize the importance of cryptocurrency and have well-tailored laws to support it, while some others impose strict regulations or even complete bans.

Face recognition (FR) is widely used in the financial sector, security, video surveillance, smart home services, multi-factor authentication, etc. In this article we'll deep dive into recent research trends

Solana optimizes block propagation using Turbine, a peer-to-peer data dissemination method that avoids network congestion and bandwidth overload.

Solana’s Proof of History improves transaction speed and ordering but its computational demands create a scalability challenge.

CypherGoat is a crypto swap aggregator that automatically finds the best exchange rates from our partnered exchange at no extra cost.

Learning Ruby can be tough, but I stay motivated by trusting the process (even when it’s boring), having a strong “why,” and focusing on my goal—building apps.

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) has emerged as the universal translator for artificial intelligence, and it's redefining what integrated AI systems can achieve.

The lifecycle and states of an app are like a person going through different parts of their day. By understanding how an app moves through states, you can catch sneaky bugs, simulate real-world scenarios.

Different teams may have different length sprints, but in general, a Sprint is either two or three weeks.

I remember the day I first started experimenting with DeepSeek for coding. It felt like stepping into a new dimension where code could almost write itself.

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A designer without prior coding experience used Cursor AI to build the Pixel Icon Library website from a Figma design. With AI assistance, they set up the project with HTML, Tailwind CSS, and Node.js, implemented search functionality using JSON, and deployed it via GitHub Pages. Despite some AI hiccups, they successfully launched the site, proving that with AI, the gap between design and development...

Brex started as a corporate card for startups and evolved into a full spend management platform. Learn how we help companies scale, optimize spend, and plan for growth.

Instead of traditional forms, we can give users the possibility to use a chat, the next level of communication with services.

Netflix’s ‘Zero Day’ places viewers in the midst of a massive cyberattack that cripples the United States. While some aspects of the cyberattack feel eerily plausible, others stray into sci-fi. Malware Research Engineer at Moonlock, the cybersecurity division of MacPaw, gives his analysis of the show.