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ico vs nft vs defi on Hacker News

Across 2007–2026 of Hacker News, nft leads ico vs nft vs defi with 14,577 mentions to defi’s 12,893, peaking in Dec 2021.

Mention-over-time for ico vs nft vs defi, overlaid across 2007–2026 of Hacker News. Each line is a live date-histogram over ~45M posts and comments, computed with Upstash Redis Search.

ico9,946 mentions, peak Aug 2017nft14,577 mentions, peak Dec 2021defi12,893 mentions, peak Oct 2022
2008201120142017202020232026
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How the lead changed hands

Crypto's serial manias: the ICO token-sale frenzy peaks in 2017, the NFT gold rush detonates in 2021, then DeFi carries the yield-farming hype into 2022.

The stories behind each line

Top “ico” stories
  1. SEC Charges Kik With Conducting $100M Unregistered ICO 545 points · 2019
  2. Half of ICOs Die Within Four Months After Token Sales Finalized 466 points · 2018
  3. SEC Shuts Down Munchee ICO 374 points · 2017
  4. China's Central Bank Bans ICOs 326 points · 2017
Top “nft” stories
  1. NFT projects are just MLMs for tech elites 797 points · 2021
  2. John Cleese Sells the Brooklyn Bridge as an NFT 445 points · 2021
  3. Steam bans all blockchain and NFT games on its platform 379 points · 2021
  4. TheNFTbay.org – The Billion Dollar Torrent (All NFT's from Ethereum and Solana) 229 points · 2021
Top “defi” stories
  1. Launch HN: 70MillionJobs (YC S17) – Job board for people with criminal records 1,879 points · 2017
  2. YouTube suspended my account for posting DeFi hackathon video 639 points · 2021
  3. In second largest DeFi hack, Blockchain Bridge loses $320M Ether 632 points · 2022
  4. Lavabit Defied FBI Demands to Turn Over Crypto Keys, Documents Show 592 points · 2013

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