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before we start, we have two announcements:

- our Dappcon Writing Challenge submissions are in. if you'd like to read the submissions and upvote the ones you find interesting, you can find them in this document.

- kiwi bots are back. you can follow them on Farcaster and Twitter.

and here are the top links from the last week:

News

Robinhood to buy Bitstamp for $200M
submitted by timdaud.eth

Arweave acquires crypto social media app Odysee
submitted by macbudkowski.eth | 2 comments

Supply chain email breach attack affected several crypto companies
submitted by macbudkowski.eth

Farcaster client Nook is shutting down
submitted by destiner.eth | 4 comments

Essays & Talks

Vitalik comments on celebrity tokens
submitted by mishaderidder.eth | 4 comments

Pedro Solimano tries to understand how many users does Farcaster actually have?
submitted by timdaub.eth | 5 comments

Ifeoluwani makes a case for memecoins
submitted by ayomide.eth

Leopold Aschenbrenner writes about the upcoming, AI-powered decade
submitted by qiaoliang.eth

Gokhan is arguing for the Transdimensional Bloc
submitted by gokhan.eth

Mac Budkowski shares his thoughts on more meritocratic social feeds
submitted by macbudkowski.eth

Six suggests that instead of decentralized social we should focus on programmable social
submitted by timdaub.eth

Mac Budkowski writers about privacy as digital houses
submitted by macbudkowski.eth

Nathan Schneider explains why the future of democracy could depend on your group chats
submitted by mishaderidder.eth

Zinkk shares his recap from Dappcon '24
submitted by zinkk.eth

Auditless explains the bold vision behind the Gnosis 3.0
submitted by auditless.eth

Erik Voorhees talks about the American heritage of disintermediation
submitted by macbudkowski.eth

Gary Goldberg describes the creative tension between the Old and New ideas
submitted by macbudkowski.eth

Anu introduces the concept of Software Creator
submitted by timdaub.eth

Li Jin shows how crypto can help to build net-new marketplaces
submitted by rvolz.eth

Behkod demystifies Account Abstraction
submitted by paicasso.eth

William Peaster asks which version is right on-chain or onchain?
submitted by mishaderidder.eth | 2 comments

Justin Drake & Toly debate what's better - Ethereum or Solana?
submitted by macbudkowski.eth | 2 comments

Dan Romero outlines the challenges with BYOA and social networks
submitted by 0xluo.eth | 1 comment

Shlok Khemani dives deep into LLMs and data protocols
submitted by lilping.eth

Daniel D. McKinnon analyzes G Cloud business and wonders why Google keeps investing in it
submitted by mobot.eth | 1 comment

Romain shares his thoughts on Dappcon '24
submitted by greedywizard.eth

The Rise shares Why he thinks BTC is close to a decade bear market
submitted by therise.eth

Vgr writes his Bangalore meetup report
submitted by timdaub.eth | 1 comment

Users who recently onboarded to Farcaster share their opinions
submitted by timdaud.eth

friend.tech DAU is down to 177 users
submitted by mishaderidder.eth | 2 comments

Dan Romero shares his thoughts on building Farcaster apps
submitted by qiaoliang.eth

Products

Brave: Goggles
submitted by macbudkowski.eth

OpenRank: Decentralized reputation protocol
submitted by timdaub.eth | 2 comments

Minus: Finite social network
submitted by mishaderidder.eth

Orb.club opens up
submitted by mishaderidder.eth

Passports ZKPs for biometric passports
submitted by zinkk.eth

For Devs

Bonding curve research group library
submitted by wongssh.eth | 1 comment

Reth archival node guide
submitted by macbudkowski.eth

Open source alternatives to privy
submitted by timdaud.eth

Farcaster faucet bot
submitted by macbudkowski.eth

Cryptography behind the top 100 cryptocurrencies
submitted by timdaub.eth

Dashboards & Reports

Interactive Ethereum Roadmap
submitted by macbudkowski.eth

Rollup.wtf
submitted by wongssh.eth

AAVE deposits & borrows
submitted by timdaub.eth

Research Hub
submitted by mobot.eth | 1 comment

Derivatives
submitted by wongssh.eth | 3 comments

Art

Sotheby's gold fur Bored Ape auction
submitted by mishaderidder.eth

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