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Bennu – Simple DeFi Gateway for Latin America (Katana Network)

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Decentralizing Catalonia: Part 1

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There are only 13k daily active Dapp users

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Introducing shastaOS: The architecture empowering energy freedom

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How to use Shasta, the free energy market

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Show HN: Shasta – Everything you need to operate with energy on Ethereum

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The tech behind a decentralized energy market

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Shasta: a free energy market embedded into ethereum

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Teenage tech prodigy wants to fix Bitcoin's energy consumption problem

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The fake fashion of decentralization

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The Catalan government as a DAO

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How to build a digital nation in Catalonia

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Catalonia in the blockchain

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Why the World Needs More Apps Built on IPFS

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The Society’s upgradeability

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Watch Your Hack

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Sending Cryptocurrency to Email

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Hi HN! I built Bennu, a simplified DeFi gateway specifically designed for Latin America.

*The Problem*: DeFi is intimidating for most people in emerging markets. Complex interfaces, high minimum deposits, and lack of Spanish support create barriers to financial inclusion.

*The Solution*: Bennu makes DeFi as simple as online banking: • Deposit with card/bank transfer (from $10 USD) • Automatic 8% annual yield through battle-tested protocols (Morpho, Sushi, Vertex) • Spanish interface with 24/7 support • Built on Katana Network (faster, cheaper than Ethereum)

*Tech Stack*: Next.js 15, TypeScript, Firebase, Tailwind CSS, Bridge API for fiat on/off ramps

*Live Demo*: https://bennu.app (demo mode enabled - safe to explore!)

The demo shows the full user journey: onboarding → deposit simulation → yield tracking → portfolio management. All data is simulated for privacy.

*What makes it different*: • Mobile-first design (most LatAm users are mobile-only) • Banking-like UX (familiar patterns instead of DeFi complexity) • Localized for emerging markets • Educational content in Spanish • Low barriers to entry ($10 minimum vs $1000+ elsewhere)

Started as a personal wealth tracker, evolved into a DeFi gateway. The goal is to bring DeFi benefits to underserved markets where traditional banking often fails.

Built solo over 6 months. Planning to expand to other emerging markets if this resonates.

Would love feedback from the HN community - especially on UX, security considerations, and market fit!

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A Brief History of Everything by Ken Wilber.

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So, in a private ipfs network (connect to other peers who have a shared secret key) https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/blob/master/docs/experimenta.... All the IPFS nodes are connected by default? Each peer pin files from other peers?

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Yes, it should take some minutes! I'll add this to new features. Thanks! :)

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Yes right now we are using Eternum API for the MVP to pin the content, but the next feature will be pinning in our server. Uploading the file to IPFS (front-end), then from the emai-server, downloading the file from hash to our own server and then connecting it to gateway https://filenation/ipfs/{hash} (everything in the same server to save a lot in bandwidth)

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Hi! My name is Alex Sicart and I have been working on a new way to send files using IPFS, so that everyone can benefit from this technology. With FileNation you can already send files in a more secure and efficient way using IPFS, a P2P hypermedia protocol. IPFS can save millions in bandwidth, right now FileNation pins files for free.

1 - Go to https://filenation.io/

2 - Click on Upload Files button. Locate the file that you want to upload and click open.

3 - Click on “Send Files to” and add the recpient email address.

4 - Click on “Your Email” and add your email address.

5 - Click on “Send”.

6 - The file will be added to IPFS and sent to the sender's email, keep page still open until Eternum has finished pinning :)

Try it out and tell me how I can improve it to empower more people with this amazing P2P technology :)

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the server never goes down, because is not like TORRENTS!

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fully distributed

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this project is running an ipfs node in your browser

Also, is not like torrents, if disconnect your node, the file disappears!! Read IPFS docs please

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Very different protocols!

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Okay thanks a lot :)

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censorhip? Here in my country, there are webpages blocked(blocking dns). We see there is a lot of censorhip on the internet. IPFS is permanent, anyone can't eliminate that content. You can get access, with lots of gateways.

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Because this tech, need to be visible to HUMANS if we want to create the next internet.

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I believe we should build distributed projects, seems equally to products already people love, but using great tech as ipfs, to have permanent and unlimited files.

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It's not the same torrents than ipfs, completely different!! https://ipfs.io/

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Good one

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But for example, wetransfer only allow to upload 2GB files, my proposal unlimited and permanent. I believe people don't need to know it uses blockchain...