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before we start, two quick announcements:

• We got the results of the Arena: Devconflict writing contest

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Plus, thanks to Lens for supporting us by buying a Kiwi ad to promote their holiday hackathon.

And thanks to our authors and curators who shared this week's links:
pedrovilela.eth, timdaub.eth, mishaderidder.eth, isabel.eth, macbudkowski.eth, rvolz.eth, miragenesi.eth, cerv1.eth, mozrt.eth, freeatnet.eth, simplifiedprivacy.eth, sileo.eth, naomiii.eth, papulous.eth, pfedprog.eth, lens/armog

Discussions

EFF shares what you should know when joining Bluesky (5 comments)

rm says that BTC is a relic of the past (4 comments)

Miles Jennings says that decentralization is why we fight for crypto (4 comments)

News

ENS picks Linea for the L2 Rollout

Zora shares the community retrogrant

Lens raises $31M

r/ethfinance and r/ethereum merge again

Deutsche Bank is building an L2

German watchdog orders Worldcoin to delete data collected illegally

Complicated nature of the Polymarket Israel bet

Essays, Posts & Talks

Anurag Arjun is very concerned about people who are “concerned about Ethereum”

Mario Laul describes the cryptopreneur’s dilemma

Stani shares his take on the Polygon bridge funds investment proposal

Daniel Fernandes criticizes Ethereum's reliance on centralized platforms

Identified, extracted permaweb data from JPG's culture & curation experiment

Archetype shares 10 categories of Crypto x AI they're watching in 2025

Daksh Gupta explains how to make LLMs shut up

Explanation of the EU Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) regulation

Matti writes about memecoins and the war for mindshare

What is Decentralized science (DeSci)

Tor recaps 2024 and shares the plans for 2025

POAP team looks back on 2024

Gnosis recaps 2024

Dashboards & reports

Ethereum staking 2024 report

Gas limit signaling report

Chain abstraction 2024 report

Flipside report on crypto users in 2024

Withdrawal fees on crypto exchanges

Historical corporate profit margin

Products

Launched: Base Wrapped 2024

Launched: Fluidkey bank transfers

Launched: Warpcast Rewards

Launched: Surf app by Flipboard

Launched: Buy Component

Found: DeFi Simulator

Found: Tmr.news

Update: Privy server wallets

For devs

EIP 7639: Prune calldata

Consequences of EIP-7623 for dapp builders

Tidbits of post-quantum ETH

Explanation of Merkle trees

Base engineering shares their experiences from scaling Base with Reth

Art

NFT: Perspectives. Exploring pluralism through on-chain composition

Kenny Schachter on why the art world is broken, and how technology can fix it

The Art of DIY Education

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