# Kiwi News Recap #35: 12/02-18/02

**Published by:** [Kiwi Weekly](https://paragraph.com/@kiwi-weekly/)
**Published on:** 2024-02-19
**URL:** https://paragraph.com/@kiwi-weekly/kiwi-news-recap-35

## Content

gm, here are the Kiwi picks from the last week: News:Jon Wu warns against privacy protocols shutting down submitted by macbudkowski.eth | 3 comments US Senate pushes back against Elizabeth Warren’s anti-crypto crusade submitted by timdaub.eth Sound.xyz launches channels submitted by mishaderidder.eth | 1 comment Circle executive says in Congress that the US Treasury should go after Tether submitted by macbudkowski.eth Starknet will allocate its STRK token to the community submitted by timdaub.eth | 3 comments Kiwi distributes its RetroPGF2 submitted by macbudkowski.eth Essays:Haardik shares his Farcaster story submitted by haardik.eth | 4 comments Tim Daub dives into the mechanics of the Farcaster hype submitted by timdaub.eth | 3 comments Ivan Vendrov explains how great products get worse by chasing the marginal user submitted by timdaub.eth | 5 comments Richard Barbook's & Andy Cameron's 1995 essay describing the Californian Ideology submitted by timdaub.eth | 1 comment Gokhan shares his thoughts on Hypershitcoinization submitted by gokhan.eth Albiverse analyzes how the mix of new features & $DEGEN hype fueled Farcaster growth submitted by mishaderidder.eth | 4 comments Abdullah Atta describes how Skiff failed to shutdown submitted by destiner.eth Gokhan shares some of his tips for using Farcaster submitted by gokhan.eth Accelxr dives deep into the intersections of Crypto & AI submitted by mishaderidder.eth Crypto Posters highlight the value of shitposting submitted by timdaub.eth Nils Edison explores how an Internet designed for bots might look submitted by rvolz.eth | 2 comments Nils Edison shares his bull case for launching products through feeds submitted by accountless.eth 0xAlbena explains what is a DePIN, and why is it important submitted by 0xalbena Nils Edison asks if we can combine community notes with prediction markets and onchain reputation submitted by rvolz.eth ETHBerlin & Department of Decentralization team share their story submitted by mishaderidder.eth Alexander Karp suggests that Silicon Valley has a Harvard Problem submitted by timdaub.eth Dashboards & Reports:Anonymized OP RetroPGF3 voting dataset submitted by timdaub.eth | 1 comment cerv1's analysis on 21,813 OP RetroPGF3 votes submitted by cerv1.eth | 1 comment Lucas Tcheyan's report on intersection of crypto and AI submitted by lilping.eth Hildobby's Farcaster DAU/MAU ratio dashboard submitted by timdaub.eth 0xRob's referral rewards market dashboard submitted by macbudkowski.eth | 2 comments Art:What Makes a Great Ugly Art? submitted by gokhan.eth | 4 comments Collection of art-related Farcaster links submitted by mishaderidder.eth NFTs & Storytelling with Simon de la Rouviere at NFT.NYC 2021 submitted by timdaub.eth Finnish National Gallery prize for generative art using its CC0 collection. submitted by pedrovictor.eth Products:Farcaster.vote: a Frame for decentralized verifiable polls submitted by ferran.eth | 2 comments How to create frames without any code submitted by tomu.eth | 5 comments dAppling DNS Monitor for detecting web3 frontend attacks submitted by alwaysbegrowing.eth | 2 comments For Devs:ZuBerlin pre-registrations are open submitted by timdaub.eth Bridge between Mastodon, BlueSky & Nostr submitted by mishaderidder.eth | 2 comments Co-founder of GitHub shares git tips & tricks submitted by scottrepreneur.eth | 1 comment Jan Gorzny shares his experience with building a ZK rollup on the OP stack submitted by macbudkowski.eth AI & VR:OpenAI launched Sora that lets users create video from text submitted by mishaderidder.eth Scott Alexander explains why Sam Altman wants to raise $7 Trillion submitted by macbudkowski.eth | 4 comments New AI tool discovers realistic 'metamaterials' with unusual properties submitted by frotograf.eth If you'd like to learn more about Kiwi and our community, you can dig in here.

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