# Kiwi News Recap #41: 25/03-01/04 **Published by:** [Kiwi Weekly](https://paragraph.com/@kiwi-weekly/) **Published on:** 2024-04-02 **URL:** https://paragraph.com/@kiwi-weekly/kiwi-news-recap-41 ## Content gm before we start a short info: We partnered with Rhino Review, a newsletter focused exclusively on ETH staking, supported by the EthStaker community & Ethereum Foundation. From now on all new episodes of Rhino will be automatically added to the Kiwi /New feed via Feedbot. We will also give 10 free Kiwipasses to the Rhino community, so if we have some staking-related links on Kiwi, we can expect insightful comments If you’d like to read Rhino Review journal, you can find it at rhinoreview.substack.com And below you can find the top Kiwi picks from last week (plus this Monday since we took a day off for Easter). As last week we had many memecoin-related essays, we put them all in a separate category. NewsSBF sentenced to 25 years for crypto fraud submitted by macbudkowski.eth Optimism Collective introduces the future Retro Funding rounds submitted by mishaderidder.eth | 2 comments Coinbase to store more of its $220M USDC holdings on Base submitted by timdaub.eth Seed Club announces its SC07 consumer crypto cohort submitted by cojo.eth | 1 comment Degen Chain has been launched submitted by timdaub.eth Kiwi opens Feedbot for submissions submitted by macbudkowski.eth Merkle reportedly gets unicorn valuation after a round led by Paradigm submitted by timdaub.eth Fetch.ai, Ocean Protocol and SingularityNET unite to create ASI submitted by timdaub.eth Coinbase must face the US securities regulator's lawsuit submitted by timdaub.eth Summer of Protocols opens applications for Protocol Improvement Grants (PIGs) submitted by timdaub.eth Memecoins essaysVitalik explains how we could utilize memecoins submitted by mishaderidder.eth | 1 comment freezer explores the history and the future of memecoins submitted by mishaderidder.eth Li Jin suggests that memecoins might become a new GTM strategy submitted by timdaub.eth | 4 comments CL shares their opinion on memes submitted by timdaub.eth Simon de la Rouviere explores the current memecoin discourse and shares his perspective submitted by timdaub.eth Kairon dives deep into $DEGEN, analyzing its history, tech, growth and ecosystem submitted by 0xluo.eth | 1 comment Android Sixteen describes the Degen wealth effect submitted by timdaub.eth Xingpt tries to nail what made $DEGEN a $1B project in three months submitted by qiaoliang.eth | 1 comment Clout explores his thoughts on the Memecoin Supercycle submitted by nftfuckboy.eth Flora Marquez draws a comic book introduction to DEGEN submitted by mishaderidder.eth Crypto Essays & TalksMac reflects on his journey from replyguy to crypto writer and founder submitted by macbudkowski.eth | 7 comments Vitalik introduces the idea of degen communism submitted by pedrovilela.eth Mark Beylin suggests that the token is the product submitted by timdaub.eth | 7 comments Carl Cervone shares his thoughts on Optimism's new RPGF direction submitted by auditless.eth | 2 comments Honest Broker shares some tips on how to break free from dopamine culture submitted by pedrovilela.eth | 1 comment Paul Graham shares his story with the Reddit founders' submitted by timdaub.eth Frota explains what it is Composable Culture and why it matters submitted by frotograf.eth tervo shares his Replyguys Manifesto submitted by timdaub.eth Vitalik writes about the post-blobs Ethereum future submitted by pedrovilela.eth | 1 comment Galen shows how the Qing dynasty used hair for contract enforcement submitted by crout.eth | 2 comments Joan Westenberg explores how Warpcast could become the everything app submitted by mishaderidder.eth William Peaster shows how Midjourney could play an important role in the metaverse submitted by mishaderidder.eth Ilan Ben-Mair and Michael Zargham dive deep into the concept of engineering for legitimacy submitted by cerv1.eth Auditless explores the subject of the marginal utility of blockspace submitted by auditless.eth Shayon Sengupta writes about the new class of apps: Publisher-Exchanges submitted by qiaoliang.eth Balaji shares a state bankruptcy scenario submitted by macbudkowski.eth Joakim Book explains how the bad money made the assets price grow submitted by timdaub.eth | 1 comment Phil Mohun shares some basic wallet security tips submitted by mishaderidder.eth Alex Hern tries to understand how can Donald Trump’s Truth Social be worth $9B submitted by rvolz.eth | 2 comments Techcrunch writers about Telegram’s peer-to-peer SMS login service submitted by mishaderidder.eth ProductsWorldcoin implements personal custody submitted by timdaub.eth | 2 comments ZORA introduces minting with ERC20s submitted by pedrovilela.eth Spawning lets you opt-out your media from AI training submitted by mishaderidder.eth Blobscriptions: Inscriptions in ETH blob space submitted by timdaub.eth $ENJOY: New rewards system for mints on Zora submitted by annoushka.eth Base is live on Rarible submitted by mishaderidder.eth | 1 comment Spotify expands into video learning content submitted by danfowler.eth For DevsTincho explains what happens when you send 1 DAI submitted by macbudkowski.eth | 1 comment IPFS opens registrations for the IPFS Camp 2024 submitted by mishaderidder.eth Vitalik shows how we could support decentralized staking through more anti-correlation incentives submitted by mishaderidder.eth Dashboards & ReportsAndrew Hong presents an intro to Farcaster data submitted by timdaub.eth Kerman Kohli analyzes 4 Optimism airdrops submitted by rvolz.eth ArtQiaoliang publishes a provocative Review of Recent Advances in Memecoins submitted by qiaoliang.eth | 4 comments AI & VRMartin Köppelmann on AI agents as onchain actors 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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