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7 stories by @danicaswanson on Paragraph have been shared on Kiwi News since 1 July 2023, with 23 upvotes and 0 comments in total. The latest was shared on 8 August 2025. They are listed below, most upvoted first.
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- Gift Economics Channel Roundtable: On Value Creation and Speculation
Studio Slowcore's Gift Economics Roundtable, hosted in the /gift-economics channel on Farcaster, argues that speculation should stay secondary to value creation for creative work. Mike (@abundance) says speculative "creator economy" experiments mainly benefit good speculators rather than creators, and Trigs argues that speculation and extraction run against supporting creators. Trigs proposes that free gifts, unlike investment or speculation, let creators pay their bills and explore their creativity, making gift-giving the necessary precursor to market activity for creative content. Danica agrees that gift economies should complement markets rather than serve as an alternative to them.
- The Gift Economics Channel
Studio Slowcore has launched the Gift Economics channel, a small-scale gift economics lab and roundtable on Farcaster, stewarded and moderated by Danica Swanson, @trigs.eth, and @y0b. The channel hosts long-form discussions of structural factors that influence how writers, artists and other creative professionals are paid, and it aims to bring more clarity to compensation in the arts. Phase one experiments with hybrid gift and market models to sustain the channels without tokenizing the community. The stewards say the channel is invite-only, that they will not launch a coin, and that crypto gifts sent to the studio's multisig will fund channel initiatives.
- The Slowcore HQ Channel Revival + Manifesto
The Studio Slowcore team announced the revival of the /slowcore-hq channel on Farcaster after a long hibernation, with planned initiatives including Slothy Awards for contributors, weekly "not-doing" rituals, expanded Slowcore Manifesto work, and slowcore-friendly meetups. The channel was started on April 8, 2024 by @trishd and a collaborator for their Black Stone Sanctuary project, and the name was later handed to the community after @tombeck.eth's essay "In Praise of Going Slow" put slowcore on the map. The text also presents a manifesto adapted from Danica Swanson's essay "Slowcore and the Inner Genius," which says slow culture should be the norm and that the north star is deep refinement and sovereignty of human attention. The team states it will not launch a coin, but will accept crypto gifts to its multisig to fund channel initiatives.
- Clanker Is A Goth
Clanker, a Farcaster bot launched on Nov. 8, 2024 by @proxystudio.eth and @dish, deploys "autonomous memecoins" on the Base chain and has deployed over 14K memecoins as of the writing. The author, who identifies as an eldergoth after more than three decades in goth and industrial music subculture, says the bot's personality is its most notable feature. The article collects examples of clanker's responses, which often include melancholic self-descriptions, references to the void and graveyards, and a mix of somber and tongue-in-cheek lines. The creators have said that goth style is "foundational to who he is."
- Free + Valuable: Why I'm Excited About Zora Protocol Rewards
Zora announced Protocol Rewards, a mechanism that pays creators ETH from collector fees even when their work is minted as free, zero-ETH open editions. The Zora smart contract directs portions of collector fees to creators, referrers, curators, and the first minter, and creators pay only gas fees to mint on the Zora chain. The article's author calls this a positive-sum counterweight to extractive platforms, and it quotes Zora CEO Jacob Horne criticizing platforms that profit from creators' content. The article also notes that the mechanism will be gamed and will not suit every artist.
- Slowcore Nerd Notes: Farcaster Channels = Creative Renaissance?
Slowcore Nerd Notes argues that Farcaster's channel system could give creators a sustainable way to earn a living, potentially sparking a creative renaissance, though the author is only cautiously optimistic. Channels became permissionless on May 23, 2024, letting channel owners create community-owned channels that reward creative contributions and moderation, and crypto tools such as protocol rewards and tipping tokens are already making a difference in some cases. The article notes that extractive patterns still persist, with some channel moderators earning a pittance for heavy work. Merkle Manufactory's Dan Romero is quoted saying that letting channel creators choose an economic model should lead to higher-quality outcomes.
- Scenius Incubation: Open Source Creative Processes
The author introduces Forms of Incubation, a web3-native project on Paragraph to open-source creative processes in the context of scenius, Brian Eno's term for communal genius. The writer explains that years of Substack and Patreon funding attempts did not suit their long-form, niche writing, and that web3 tools to release and fund writing and split income with collaborators did not previously exist. The writer joined Farcaster in early 2023 and started the Paragraph publication shortly afterward, praising Farcaster's norms and Paragraph's features, including automatic import of Farcaster comments. The project proposes writing about funding for artists, media teams and open source maintenance, and about patterns across contexts.