# Best of paragraph.xyz/@ccarella on Kiwi News

Page: https://news.kiwistand.com/source/paragraph.xyz/@ccarella

34 stories by @ccarella on Paragraph have been shared on Kiwi News since 6 June 2023, with 99 upvotes and 16 comments in total. The latest was shared on 30 January 2025. They are listed below, most upvoted first.

Summaries are AI summaries of the linked article.

## 1. Re-Introducing Purple

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Re-Introducing-Purple?index=0x66d4a4e03fc7fd8acd5abd99327477a47d553dc7419653b6859dc95f83ddb2a8ff53df56
- Source: https://paragraph.xyz/@ccarella/re-introducing-purple
- Shared 1 September 2024, 9 upvotes, 2 comments

Purple is an onchain organization that aims to support and extend the Farcaster protocol and ecosystem, using the governance model of Nouns. It was the first DAO to launch on Nouns.build and says it helped solve the ecosystem's cold start problem by pooling daily auction funds to reward builders. The article names Ponder, Herocast, Kiwi News, Launchcaster, and GM Farcaster as early recipients, and says Purple still funds public goods, meetups, and community initiatives that may not attract traditional funding.

## 2. Private companies can provide public goods

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Private-companies-can-provide-public-goods?index=0x652cf69c58f3a2f75e13fbf5d609c0221223bd79025762abee46e23fdb11177155bfd695
- Source: https://paragraph.xyz/@ccarella/pg-private-companies?s=09
- Shared 16 October 2023, 8 upvotes, 0 comments

The article argues that private companies can provide public goods, including pure and hybrid ones, even though the economic definition of a pure public good is too narrow to guide funding decisions on its own. It cites Vitalik Buterin, who notes that real cases involve edge cases such as entrance fees or auctioned statues, and that most goods sit somewhere between pure and excludable. Examples offered include Google and Maxar Technologies providing satellite imagery, Google creating TensorFlow, Facebook creating Llama, Merkle Manufactory creating Farcaster, and Pfizer and Moderna investing billions of dollars in medical research.

## 3. Sharing Kiwi News

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Sharing-Kiwi-News?index=0x66c38adfe93fda9b22a13a07f71e6e9694fe4a5eff38406ac403ea359622d0c10c96ee54
- Source: https://paragraph.xyz/@ccarella/kiwi-news
- Shared 19 August 2024, 7 upvotes, 3 comments

Kiwi News is a decentralized, crypto-focused version of Hacker News that its author, who says they have visited it for almost two years, considers the best place to find things to read. The author describes the community as small but highly curated, and says it has been heavily anchored around Farcaster, with the site started by Farcaster users Mac Budkowski and Tim Daub. The article says the site is bootstrapped, built in public, and has a Telegram channel for product updates and discussion, and that access requires purchasing a Kiwi News NFT, currently a one-time payment of $20.

## 4. Networks Owned By Their Participants

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Networks-Owned-By-Their-Participants?index=0x679b66a2ba0c29dc0448f4bf9e6f58953fffea9e50e4986392c710a8117455713ac05ed8
- Source: https://paragraph.xyz/@ccarella/network-owned-by-their-participants
- Shared 30 January 2025, 6 upvotes, 1 comment

The author argues that crypto's most important promise is giving a network's participants ownership of it, and that this matters more than memecoin-style ownership. Ownership is said to be meaningful only with governance, so the text calls for new internet-native forms of coordination, which it says is why DAOs are important. The article contrasts this with centralized ownership of wallets, token launchers and consumer apps, which it says would put the future in trouble, and it names Ethereum, ENS, Uniswap and Aerodrome as examples of the infrastructure it has in mind.

## 5. 696 days of consecutive casting

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/696-days-of-consecutive-casting?index=0x66cf4bf151c428b29443947f25a32ce32c91aadce084b1c62c014b2da6f811f865a39b06
- Source: https://paragraph.xyz/@ccarella/696-days-of-consecutive-casting
- Shared 28 August 2024, 5 upvotes, 0 comments

The author, writing about their experience on Farcaster, a decentralized social networking protocol, says the network's culture of shared purpose makes it more collaborative than Twitter, where conversations often feel adversarial. They report 696 consecutive days of casting and say Saxophone55.eth, creator of the frame, told them they have the longest streak on the network. The author also argues that Farcaster's open protocol, which keeps data accessible rather than locked on private servers, supports a user-owned internet, a principle Chris Dixon discusses in Read, Write, Own.

## 6. Network Common Goods

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Network-Common-Goods?index=0x659dba348537edec489b26f36968c6e1b3e8a523f8868248abdb8d02092754f2436f92d6
- Source: https://paragraph.xyz/@ccarella/network-common-goods
- Shared 9 January 2024, 5 upvotes, 0 comments

The essay proposes "Network Common Goods" as a framework for funding blockchain ecosystems, combining the open access of public goods with the network-driven value of network goods. It argues that the traditional public goods concept, defined by Paul Samuelson in 1954, does not fully fit crypto projects, since their software often excludes non-users and those who cannot afford transaction fees. The author defines a network common good as a good that is non-rivalrous and non-excludable in consumption and creates value from positive network effects beyond the sum of users' willingness to pay. The essay also says network goods tend to converge on monopolies, which conflicts with open, decentralized crypto values.

## 7. Together: Enhancing the Farcaster Experience through Social Reading

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Together-Enhancing-the-Farcaster-Experience-through-Social-Reading?index=0x66d96580c08689db6701031236fc6f34c178a4cb5a4bcd8f494bd13b835c0a73cc820af6
- Source: https://paragraph.xyz/@ccarella/together-enhancing-the-farcaster-experience-through-social-reading
- Shared 5 September 2024, 4 upvotes, 3 comments

Farcaster user (the author) has written a concept doc for Together, a proposed mini-app that would add a social reading experience to Farcaster, which they describe as an in-app reader that could work with Paragraph or any URL. The concept offers Reading and Listening modes, with AI-generated audio narration, and a "Now Reading" section showing Farcasters who read an article in the last 48 hours, sorted by people the user follows. Highlights and annotations can be shared as Farcaster Frames, and the author notes that Paragraph has expressed interest in building a mini-app.

## 8. What can Purple do for Farcaster Content?

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/What-can-Purple-do-for-Farcaster-Content?index=0x66e5cbffbf5b79571896c47aa59423f42ed362b01b59096b0121f081baafc3afd0bec4f0
- Source: https://paragraph.xyz/@ccarella/what-can-purple-do-for-farcaster-content
- Shared 14 September 2024, 4 upvotes, 1 comment

Purple is calling for funded experiments to diversify content on Farcaster, which the article presents as the main obstacle to user growth and retention. The author identifies three problems: few interest verticals beyond crypto, too few key opinion leaders, and not enough content that isn't available, and often better, elsewhere. Proposed ideas include a $5 monthly Hypersub that splits proceeds among top contributors via Rounds.wtf, and community-specific native apps such as a proposed "RaceFi" app. Purple, which has a 38 ETH treasury and operates as a decentralized grant program, invites applications for Content Onboarding Experiments measured by retention after 7, 30, or 90 days.

## 9. Falling back in love with Nouns via Higher

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Falling-back-in-love-with-Nouns-via-Higher?index=0x67261206e61ffd8493c6e84ec338bb3391f4955a4fa16566eb8319cd2ace606297eca55d
- Source: https://paragraph.xyz/@ccarella/falling-back-in-love-with-nouns-via-higher
- Shared 2 November 2024, 4 upvotes, 0 comments

The author says their enthusiasm for Nouns was renewed after a period of burnout, and that they will be less active in Governance going forward. They describe the burnout as coming from heavy support work, including helping newcomers and handling proposals after they go onchain, and from a shift in the community toward questioning creators and teams. Their renewed interest is tied to the headless, CC0 nature of the brand, which they say matters more than Governance, and to the HIGHER community, which Martin highlighted on X, as well as a Nouns 40 Vote with Reason.

## 10. The Scout Game: Positive Sum Gaming

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/The-Scout-Game-Positive-Sum-Gaming?index=0x66e94d53b6d1a00781fcc4884f2c7527cf7a5bb122a9b8b3c66fdd62c9c97afd7546b505
- Source: https://paragraph.xyz/@ccarella/the-scout-game-positive-sum-gaming
- Shared 17 September 2024, 4 upvotes, 0 comments

CharmVerse has launched a two-week Scout Game Waitlist, a gamified campaign ahead of the game's full release in which the Scout Game is described as rewarding people who identify and support emerging developer talent in onchain ecosystems. Scouts collect NFTs of top builders each season and earn Scout Points when those builders get pull requests accepted in approved open-source projects. The article says builders earn points for their first commit, for an accepted pull request, and for a streak of three PRs, with each season lasting three months. It presents the model as a more durable alternative to grants and hackathons, which it says often yield inconsistent or short-term results.

## 11. The Primitives of a Farcaster Application

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/The-Primitives-of-a-Farcaster-Application?index=0x66d7fe5c01f132926ab02650e27c208173ba85957f9c91b08802a714828f99c3e4ba1f5b
- Source: https://paragraph.xyz/@ccarella/the-primitives-of-a-farcaster-application
- Shared 4 September 2024, 4 upvotes, 0 comments

Warpcast and the Farcaster protocol combine Casts, Programmable DMs, Frames, Cast Actions and Composer Actions to build full application experiences inside Warpcast, rather than relying on traditional mini-apps. Frames can trigger onchain actions and transactions such as NFT sales and token swaps, and have powered Bountycaster bounties and Moxie Fan Tokens. Moxie uses DMs to notify users of Fan Token Auctions, while Events.xyz sends reminders for upcoming events. The article suggests possible uses in social trading, onchain governance and content marketplaces.

## 12. Casting in the Winter

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Casting-in-the-Winter?index=0x647f6ebb5f474a23ec5b6aa88e8e7ab2287249fe637b8d8bcb1906955e5dc14da6ad422f
- Source: https://paragraph.xyz/@ccarella/farcon23
- Shared 6 June 2023, 4 upvotes, 0 comments

The article argues that Ethereum is in a winter phase and that builders should keep building now rather than chase growth, which it says is not the ultimate measure of protocol success. It presents Farcaster as built on Ethereum, which it describes as the primitive that lets the social network organize and coordinate in new forms, distribute NFTs, and send wallet-based notifications, such as when someone joins a DAO or a social event is arranged by vote. The text says early builders will be recognized as the pioneers of this cycle, while the fleeting visitors and pushy salesmen of the previous phase have passed.

## 13. Is this a mini-app? What is a mini-app?

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Is-this-a-mini-app-What-is-a-mini-app?index=0x66ec3a26d27b97b7d555e34b3b7ac31e09deb356ef83d4b3ac52e53ed248eb866d6d941a
- Source: https://paragraph.xyz/@ccarella/is-this-a-mini-app-what-is-a-mini-app
- Shared 19 September 2024, 3 upvotes, 2 comments

Warpcast is an ideal platform for mini-apps, the writer argues, because it combines crypto composability with Farcaster's builder tools and decentralized social graph. Mini-apps are lightweight applications inside larger super apps such as WeChat and Alipay, where WeChat alone offers hundreds of thousands of mini-apps, while Facebook Messenger bots, launched in 2016, failed to gain traction and Snap Minis, introduced in 2020, have not matched WeChat's scale. The writer cites reading a Paragraph post from Eric Rhodes in-app, without leaving the Warpcast feed, as an early example.

## 14. In the future everything will be tokenized but maybe not by you

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/In-the-future-everything-will-be-tokenized-but-maybe-not-by-you?index=0x674c22a55bf0dc61a1b4eec4754bdbc7814788fd9bd0956098b45a6e379fb2a16feaa34d
- Source: https://paragraph.xyz/@ccarella/in-the-future-everything-will-be-tokenized-but-maybe-not-by-you
- Shared 1 December 2024, 3 upvotes, 1 comment

Chris Carella launched an ERC-20 token called $CCARELLA on Clanker, describing it as a memecoin and an experiment in tokenizing his own likeness. He argues that everything will be tokenized, so it is better to tokenize one's likeness first, before someone else does. He says the token was meant to help people recognize that a token in his name is not official, and he noted that it rose to about $1.2M before falling. He also describes the Clanker reward pool (40% of 1% of total volume) as a significant incentive for creators, and he acknowledges downsides such as unwanted pump requests and a claim that Vitalik follows him that made him uncomfortable.

## 15. Mini-essays

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Mini-essays?index=0x66df6591416a590896156b88b53f2dbe2cbf8a5f277effcbd99c0becdfa48b6bc81474d0
- Source: https://paragraph.xyz/@ccarella/mini-essays
- Shared 9 September 2024, 3 upvotes, 1 comment

The author argues that mini-essays of 300 to 500 words, each focused on a single concept, suit both writing and reading better than long posts. They say the format keeps writing habits going while acknowledging that not every idea needs a 3000-word post, and it resembles atomic notes in Obsidian that can later link together into longer pieces. The author says they have been writing daily but avoid their most-considered topics, such as Rounds.wtf and decentralized social, because those feel like they need longer essays. They also suggest mini-essays could bring more frequent reader engagement and more focused discussion, and they plan to make them a major part of their writing after a 30-day challenge.

## 16. Software projects on Hypersub

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Software-projects-on-Hypersub?index=0x66e28530873e73c521a5b718a276eab3e29308bb2e9d21b3fd01934d1a488b11e3364c56
- Source: https://paragraph.xyz/@ccarella/software-projects-on-hypersub
- Shared 12 September 2024, 3 upvotes, 0 comments

The author, who is an early Hypersub adopter, describes Hypersub as a valuable tool for building recurring NFT subscription revenue, and points to a growing set of software projects using it. Their Studio2 art Hypersub reportedly neared 2 ETH in proceeds and about 100 collectors, and Base once shared it on its X account. The article lists Buoy Pro, Intelligent, Fiids and Herocast as Hypersub-based tools for analytics and monitoring, and notes that the Hypersub directory lists at least 20 other apps.

## 17. The SUNNYs

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/The-SUNNYs?index=0x66c6d6f6895a6af6f321420f673bc957e0e1d747144af567f294b63f2d24e7767e2ede68
- Source: https://paragraph.xyz/@ccarella/the-sunnys
- Shared 22 August 2024, 3 upvotes, 0 comments

The SUNNYs, an awards show celebrating onchain artists, developers and community builders in the Superchain ecosystem, launched today with more than 100 collaborators. CharmVerse, Gitcoin, Open Source Observer, the Superchain team, Farcaster and Forbes provided product, technology, operations and media support, and 540K OP will be given out during the awards. Builders register through the official SUNNYs website and choose a category, with performance tracked by Open Source Observer, and a live-streamed awards ceremony is planned for September.

## 18. Returning to iPhone

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Returning-to-iPhone?index=0x66e0bebae01fd8e2dc995a5d97989fd7a32e3fc4d8b34d04978030471b9728e1bd5b5236
- Source: https://paragraph.xyz/@ccarella/returning-to-iphone
- Shared 10 September 2024, 2 upvotes, 0 comments

The author, who had been using an Android phone for a year, is returning to iPhone and plans to buy an iPhone 16 after Apple's recent event, though they have not yet decided between the base model and the 16 Pro. They cite the new Action button, the Camera Control Button, and the Apple Intelligence features that will arrive later with iOS 18.1 as the main reasons for the switch. The Pro's larger 6.3" screen, thinner bezels, better cameras, and 25W fast charging (0 to 50% in 30 minutes) are weighed against its higher price, while their deciding factor is whether the newer model will handle AI apps better.

## 19. Retrofunding via Rounds and Spam

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Retrofunding-via-Rounds-and-Spam?index=0x66da336fb836a154a71f7f6283335035116f4e0aa9cc5d563ffa535c7fc9b3e5e2921b1e
- Source: https://paragraph.xyz/@ccarella/retrofunding-via-rounds-and-spam
- Shared 5 September 2024, 2 upvotes, 0 comments

Purple is running its second Retro Funding Round via Rounds in the /purple channel, a 10 ETH round funded by 5 ETH each from Purple and Octant, with seven days left to submit entries. Applicants must show demonstrable impact on Farcaster, and funds are distributed according to the number of Farcaster likes each entry receives from Purple token holders and approved Octant voters. The author says the previous round grew from 5 rewarded people to 15, and over 50 in the last round, and expects a larger number this time. The main challenge raised is spam, AI-generated posts and low-effort submissions, which has created a heavy moderation burden, and the author asks for suggestions such as an OpenRank threshold for automod filtering.

## 20. Continuous Funding in Decentralized Networks

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Continuous-Funding-in-Decentralized-Networks?index=0x66cb95b1a83c9440143759db9c9b44d6f0184cca30b567518167a3593701550ecee12fc3
- Source: https://paragraph.xyz/@ccarella/continuous-funding-in-decentralized-networks
- Shared 25 August 2024, 2 upvotes, 0 comments

Infinite Grants proposes replacing fixed-cycle grant funding in decentralized networks with continuous, fluid funding that tracks projects as they progress. The article points to experiments such as Rounds.wtf and Vrbs streaming grants, and describes Streaming Grants as a per-second flow of funds to specific outcomes within a DAO, where members can reallocate their voting power at any time. It says funding can be tied to milestones, and it names the sustainability of the grant pool as the biggest risk, with governance and clear metrics presented as necessary safeguards.

## 21. Hacker Manifestos

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Hacker-Manifestos?index=0x66d21fb9afb8aec57b8cedf07c26d177acafcc0b000d234c5be8ed63133e4a98af82817b
- Source: https://paragraph.xyz/@ccarella/hacker-manifestos
- Shared 30 August 2024, 1 upvote, 1 comment

Tech manifestos from the 1980s onward have shaped technological movements, and the article argues their influence on how society thinks about technology, privacy and human connection exceeds that of the movements they launched. It lists several: Richard Stallman's GNU Manifesto (1985), which launched the GNU Project and led to the Free Software Foundation; Loyd Blankenship's The Conscience of a Hacker (1986); and Eric Hughes's A Cypherpunk's Manifesto (1993), which helped launch the cypherpunk movement. Later entries include The Cluetrain Manifesto (1999), The Decentralized Web Manifesto (2016) from the Internet Archive, and Marc Andreessen's Techno-Optimist Manifesto (2023).

## 22. How Purple Works

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/How-Purple-Works?index=0x66c7b8612458c6a51ab154f4414d589053d5bac6b4c61336765013ae6abcf36d52c78ceb
- Source: https://paragraph.xyz/@ccarella/how-purple-works
- Shared 22 August 2024, 1 upvote, 1 comment

Purple is a DAO launched on October 25, 2022, with the goal of proliferating and expanding the Farcaster Protocol and ecosystem, and the article explains its governance through five smart contracts: NFT, Auction House, Governor, Treasury and Metadata. The Treasury holds the DAO's assets, and assets can only be released from it via a vote, with proposals needing to hit the quorum threshold plus a 51% Yes vote. The Auction House auctions a Purple token every 24 hours with a reserve price of 0.05 ETH, and sends 1% of its NFTs to Nouns DAO and 1% to Merkle Manufactory. The article states that Purple has 427 owners holding 610 tokens.

## 23. Higher Coded Networks

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Higher-Coded-Networks?index=0x6738bbcf0518b8575de49b8a5c98844ae929c8a3f3f21c3059dd31f4cfff900f8fbfb1ec
- Source: https://paragraph.xyz/@ccarella/higher-coded-networks
- Shared 16 November 2024, 1 upvote, 0 comments

Individual ambitions reach their fullest potential when they are connected through well-designed networks, human, social, digital, economic or memetic, that align personal efforts with shared goals. The article cites onchain social networks such as Farcaster, which it describes as an open protocol that lets users keep control of their identity and data, and DAOs, which use shared governance and incentive systems to link members' efforts to collective outcomes. It also points to memetic networks such as Higher, which it says build around the creation and remixing of shared memes. The text adds that networks do not channel ambition into shared results automatically and need coordination, mutual benefit and shared values to do so.

## 24. Free to Use L2s

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Free-to-Use-L2s?index=0x66ed08e6227e4f196403d7e66bd0369a52c5bceafc9a2d23c325dc9b4e5e2ae7830b1f1d
- Source: https://paragraph.xyz/@ccarella/free-to-use-l2
- Shared 20 September 2024, 1 upvote, 0 comments

The author proposes a free-to-use Layer 2 where gas fees are fully subsidized, arguing this could help onboard a billion users onchain while alternative business models sustain the network. Tools such as Coinbase Smart Wallet and Privy would let users create and sign into wallets with email addresses or passkeys without funding an account for their first experiences. The proposed revenue models include referral fees for onboarded users, sponsored transactions paid by dApps, freemium and subscription plans, staking rewards, opt-in data monetization, NFT and token royalties, token swap fees, ad support, and a "sin tax" on memecoin trading. The article acknowledges that careful design would be needed to maintain sustainability, privacy, and decentralization.

## 25. Purple Builders

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Purple-Builders?index=0x66e4c66f6321c1ab18d3f9bc736efc6d05638d46726686aec7081d00e41e10842d09979d
- Source: https://paragraph.xyz/@ccarella/purple-builders
- Shared 13 September 2024, 1 upvote, 0 comments

Purple Builders is a list of Farcaster projects that the writer uses weekly or more often, shared for a 24-hour GM Farcaster live stream marking the network's first anniversary. Warpcast, where the writer reads social media, is listed as Purple #238, Base, where they transact most, as Purple #169, and Zora, where they mint art, as Purple #23. Other entries include Paragraph, Obsidian, Neynar, Hypersub and Supercast, each tied to a specific use. The writer notes that there are so many strong Purple builders that any list risks leaving out 100 people.

## 26. Highlights from thoughts onchain

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Highlights-from-thoughts-onchain?index=0x66ddda68054a7b32701674009bbb94b8eaf17bd03a61a281bf3019298174f5571a0ad7b2
- Source: https://paragraph.xyz/@ccarella/highlights-from-thoughts-onchain
- Shared 8 September 2024, 1 upvote, 0 comments

This is a day-21 roundup from a writer taking part in a 30-day publishing challenge with Saadiq, shared as an experiment in place of daily newsletter emails, since many subscribers unsubscribed when every essay was sent out that way. The post lists five favorite pieces from the past 21 days: "The Warpcast Algorithm," an expression of love for the algorithm; "Together," which designs a fictional Warpcast mini-app for reading; "The Primitives of a Farcaster Application," which began shaping the writer's thinking about mini-apps; "Tipping as a force of Decentralization," which argues tips are a way to help communities decentralize rather than free money; and "Noun 839 & CC0," a short personal piece about the writer's Noun that makes one point about meme proliferation.

## 27. Using more AI for real work

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Using-more-AI-for-real-work?index=0x66d631f72949734dd4b4c0f57af2c0a62b6648a7a8fd61c1b4db95382e2285f3d8f76f94
- Source: https://paragraph.xyz/@ccarella/using-more-ai-for-real-work
- Shared 2 September 2024, 1 upvote, 0 comments

The author describes a 30-day writing challenge with Saadiq, a product leader they have known since 2010, with each person staking $100 on a handshake agreement. Saadiq showed the author how he uses AI to build apps and prototypes, which prompted the author to spend a few days setting up AI workflows. The author says Claude was the first real breakthrough, particularly Claude Artifacts for building small apps and testing concepts. Using Claude, the author made sense of a massive CSV dataset and created a prototype Artifact in 15 minutes. The author now calls the Claude, Projects and Artifacts combination their highest-leverage toolkit and says the goal is to apply AI-first thinking to every problem.

## 28. Reflections on Today's Ethereum Tegucigalpa Meetup

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Reflections-on-Todays-Ethereum-Tegucigalpa-Meetup?index=0x66d3aa4898fc5728028019b6e6a45744bd4bed08e996141ed4a5c145e1d41bbb8d5cf3e0
- Source: https://paragraph.xyz/@ccarella/reflections-on-todays-ethereum-tegucigalpa-meetup
- Shared 31 August 2024, 1 upvote, 0 comments

Farcaster needs local voices, not just outsiders, to succeed in Latin America, according to a speaker at the Ethereum Tegucigalpa Meetup. About 30 people attended the event at a local cafe, part of the "Latam on Farcaster" series sponsored by Purple with support from Lil Nouns. The talk covered rewards such as the Warpcast Top 100, Rounds.wtf and Moxie, and the speaker said earning crypto through social media could be life-changing in developing nations. An artist's Q&A question about struggling to gain visibility on Farcaster was cited as evidence of a challenge the platform needs to address.

## 29. Moxie Fan Token

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Moxie-Fan-Token?index=0x66ce62f1e6d85633647cd046c2b9143cc99c60445a204390ce6733b7b37ce84e61faa94e
- Source: https://paragraph.xyz/@ccarella/moxie-fan-token
- Shared 27 August 2024, 1 upvote, 0 comments

The author, a Farcaster user who received a one-year locked airdrop as a daily active user, describes Moxie fan tokens as a new mechanic that rewards social network users based on the value they bring, and asks readers whether their own fan token is over- or undervalued. The post lists the token's metrics: a current price of M 128.54, total value locked of M 470,535.7, 82 fans, a total supply of 5,546.174 tokens, and 24-hour volume of M 7,181,702.371. It also reports average daily earnings of M 11,748.061, with M 11,470.444 earned today and M 28,072.969 earned this week. The author says they provide no additional benefits to token holders yet and admits uncertainty about what makes a fan token a good value.

## 30. Tipping as a force of decentralization

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Tipping-as-a-force-of-decentralization?index=0x66ccbb018ceed313f04e5133dba6fd61dd1faabb0230791403010faab229c74de8628ce4
- Source: https://paragraph.xyz/@ccarella/tipping-as-a-force-of-decentralization
- Shared 26 August 2024, 1 upvote, 0 comments

Farcaster tipping tokens are argued to be unsustainable, since they require heavy inflation and constant sell pressure, and the author proposes community-driven tipping of equity as a better path to decentralization. The author says Farther's post-mortem "The Next Chapter" highlights shortcomings of the tipping mechanic introduced by Degen. Citing SuperRare, the author argues that giving daily tip allocations to members of a real community, whose tokens govern a real platform, reduces sell pressure and makes the network more decentralized. The author also contrasts this with airdrops, which have been hard to make sybil-resistant, and with Optimism's Retroactive Funding, which works best when impact is onchain.

## 31. Open Source on crypto rails

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Open-Source-on-crypto-rails?index=0x66ca45c44c9a6f1f3c53a26f8dc14c248f9fae665d6bb316ea65b4a103addafa60ab7b04
- Source: https://paragraph.xyz/@ccarella/open-source-on-crypto-rails
- Shared 24 August 2024, 1 upvote, 0 comments

The author argues that crypto can help fund open source development, which typically goes uncompensated. Their example is a $150 bounty, posted via Bountycaster, for someone to add thread creation to Herocast, an open source Farcaster client the author's company CharmVerse uses. The author also points to Protocol Guild's work rewarding Ethereum core developers with crypto, and expects onchain reward experiments to spread from blockchain projects to the wider open source community.

## 32. Crypto economics and Content (part 1)

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Crypto-economics-and-Content-part-1?index=0x66c908a18f24d3517ec7081c80e77d40900e8671a524e3bf69b864a0731d2ac4af99de35
- Source: https://paragraph.xyz/@ccarella/crypto-economics-and-crypto-part-1
- Shared 23 August 2024, 1 upvote, 0 comments

The author describes meeting Joec, an Argentine designer and animator, at Edcon in Tokyo, and presents his experience as evidence that onchain platforms can reward creators. The article says Joec began earning ETH through Nouns' /nouns-animator rounds and now makes more from them than from his day job, while also earning Protocol Rewards on Zora. It cites athlete Naomi Metzger, who said she earned more onchain in one week than on Instagram and X in her lifetime, and the author reports earning $43 in Moxie from a single cast. The author argues that creators should keep ownership and value of their work rather than giving it to platforms that retain control.

## 33. The Warpcast Algorithm

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/The-Warpcast-Algorithm?index=0x66c4cf68f6f75600c984d5c6c59588acba648efe10eee3fb53ecabb54f9570410c6e595b
- Source: https://paragraph.xyz/@ccarella/the-warpcast-algorithm
- Shared 20 August 2024, 1 upvote, 0 comments

The author concludes that the Warpcast algorithm is worth keeping despite its drawbacks, after trying a reverse chronological feed in the Supercast client. They say the algorithmic feed surfaces interesting content and new people, while the reverse chronological feed felt boring, with minutes between casts and little new to see on refresh. They describe Supercast as a $10/month client with scheduled casts, multiple accounts and lists, and they say they use Warpcast for fun and Supercast for work.

## 34. Essays from ccarella.eth | 💡 Idea: Free Mint the DAO Tokens

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Essays-from-ccarellaeth-or-Idea-Free-Mint-the-DAO-Tokens?index=0x6531466c1bef0ff0a656e6fc782b91b934d0fcd3e29f469e3324529871d850e407f1b9ce
- Source: https://paragraph.xyz/@ccarella/free-mint-the-dao-token
- Shared 19 October 2023, 1 upvote, 0 comments

ccarella.eth proposes that DAOs built on Nouns.build release each auctioned token as a free mint as well, so that the public can collect the artwork while Governance rights stay with the auction version. The idea was discussed in ENERGY, a creative grants collective funding arts and engineering projects on Zora Network, which sells tokens at auction for 0.05 ETH and burns any token that goes unbid, as happened to ENERGY #47. The author notes that a Droposal to free-mint that Zorb is already up, with minting from the Treasury generating protocol rewards for the Treasury. The author says the approach would add revenue without relying solely on auctions, and describes it as an early idea that could be tested with a third-party app.