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before we start:

1) Kiwi is competing for the Octant grant. If you can support us, it'd be much appreciated. If you can't, it'd be great if you helped us share our message.

2) We started a new writing contest. It is called "Farcaster 2026", and we organize it together with Purple. You can read more here.

As always, thanks to our authors and curators who shared this week's links:
albi.eth, mishaderidder.eth, miragenesi.eth, timdaub.eth, naomiii.eth, rvoltz.eth, auditless.eth, manifoldfinance.eth, nullradix.eth, papajams.eth, pedrovilela.eth, macbudkowski.eth, 0x608F...027b

Discussions

RedNote: What to know about the Chinese app TikTok users are flocking to (6 comments)

List of active Protocol Guild members (4 comments)

I moved my entire life to Cyprus to escape Germany's 50% tax rate (3 comments)

News

Meta blocks links to decentralized Instagram competitor

BlueSky-related team fundraises to make the AT more independent

Web3.js to sunset

EF 2024 Academic Grants recipients

Essays, Posts & Talks

Curtis Yarvin describes the independent truth service

Tim Bray comments on BlueSky and Fediverse fundraise

1868 essay by Henry George: What the railroad will bring us

GitHub Co-Founder on building companies and developer communities

Brenner introduces Relevance Investing

Mark explains why the community is not the product

Saadiq says that everyone won't be a software engineer but everyone can build

Mastodon team says that the people should own the town square

WMP writes about the NFT Popularization Era

Brian Armstrong says that economic freedom creates prosperity for all

Peteris Erins tries to answer if you should buy the Pudgy Vibes card game

Dashboards & reports

Cypherpunk AI: Guide to uncensored, unbiased, anonymous AI

Products

Found: Anon.world - Launchpad for anon communities

Found: Neynar onchain user quality scores

Found: QMDB - Quick Merkle Database

Found: EVM Trackooor

Found: GitPOAP

Update: Farcaster introduces Token Links

Update: Addresso v0.5

For devs

SIMD XXX: market-based programmatic emissions on Solana

Homomorphic Encryption in iOS 18

GitHub Spotlight: Eliza

Bypassing Soneium sequencer

Misty: dynamic distributed actor language from Douglas Crockford

Art

Art: list-colors

Art: PXL DEX

Art: tabcorp industries

Art: Cycles by Material Protocol Arts

Exhibition: p5.botto

and if you'd like to learn more about Kiwi, you can dig in here.