# Kiwi News Recap #31: 15/01-21/01

**Published by:** [Kiwi Weekly](https://paragraph.com/@kiwi-weekly/)
**Published on:** 2024-01-22
**URL:** https://paragraph.com/@kiwi-weekly/kiwi-news-recap-31

## Content

gm, here are the top Kiwi picks:News:AI news aggregator launched by the Instagram founder - Artifact - has shut down [submitted by macbudkowski.eth]Variant Fund shared what crypto projects they’d like to see in 2024 [submitted by annoushka.eth]This week dYdX topped Uniswap as the biggest decentralized exchange by volume [submitted by quantly.eth]Supreme Court declines to hear Apple-Epic antitrust case, meaning developers can now point their customers to their websites to make purchases [submitted by freeatnet.eth]EU is taking aim at privacy coins and self-custody wallets [submitted by timdaub.eth]Essays:Otherinter discusses Crypto's Three Body Problem and suggests we should think more about social norms and law [submitted by timdaub.eth]0xLuo translated his post from Chinese so that we can learn about the different types of Punks in the crypto world [submitted by lilping.eth]Cerv1 did a data-driven deep dive to find out what builders can learn from RetroPGF3 [submitted by cerv1.eth]Katie Chiou shows how games might be testing the limits of the question “What is a game?” and “What is a world?” [submitted by mishaderidder.eth]Owocki shares the history of new market exploration & product innovation at Gitcoin [submitted by timdaub.eth]Vitalik's take on the Network State [submitted by @sahilk]Scott Alexander shows why drawing too far-fetched conclusions from dramatic events like COVID or FTX might be bad [submitted by timdaub.eth]Rob Henderson explores how luxury beliefs are status symbols [submitted by macbudkowski.eth]Blob explains the upcoming Ethereum Dencun Upgrade [submitted by mishaderidder.eth]Tnorm explores a new approach to network incentives: Direct-to-Contract [submitted by cerv1.eth]Lefteris shares his reflections on OP RFG3 [submitted by ccarella.eth]Baekdal analyzes why do news aggregator apps keep failing? [submitted by timdaub.eth]July shares the rich context of Mozart's Sarastro's Aria and shows how it might inspire us to put ourselves on the line [submitted by gillesdc.eth]Jim Waldo discusses “Worse is better” and argues that worse is worse [submitted by macbudkowski.eth]Art:The Flood by Yoshi Sodeoka explores code-based simulations of the spiders' behaviors [submitted by mishaderidder.eth]Products:WalletConnect introduced their Web3Inbox [submitted by macbudkowski.eth]Frota shared her thorough list of apps & extensions to increase your productivity. Even if you’re a productivity nerd, you might find something new there. [submitted by frotograf.eth]For devs:Official website with well-organized information about EIP-4844 [submitted by timdaub.eth]ETHBerlin’s manifesto and information about the upcoming May’s hackathon [submitted by timdaub.eth]AI:Paper about the Sleeper LLM Agents which can persist through safety training [submitted by mishaderidder.eth] If you'd like to learn more about Kiwi and our community, you can dig in here.

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