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8 stories by @kanfa on Paragraph have been shared on Kiwi News since 3 May 2023, with 32 upvotes and 0 comments in total. The latest was shared on 9 July 2024. They are listed below, most upvoted first.
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- What really is Kiwi and why I'm working on it
Kiwi is a web3 protocol for submitting and upvoting links, with KiwiNews at kiwinews.xyz as one client built on it, according to the authors, Mac and Tim. The protocol has no identity component like Farcaster or Lens, and anyone can build an alternative client with their own moderation rules, as freeatnet has done since April. Kiwi NFTs act as tickets to interact with the protocol, and the authors say submissions and upvotes are stored at the protocol level rather than in the kiwinews.xyz database. The team says it chose its own protocol to stay neutral in curating links from across the internet, and it is self-funded without investor money.
- How exactly do music NFTs plan to change the music industry?
Artists earn little from music streaming because abundant supply, catalog-heavy listening and globally dispersed fans have limited the gains from digital distribution. Only 0.19% of the over 7 million artists on Spotify made more than $50k from royalties in 2020, and more than 95% made under $1k a year. In 2000 about 1.5 million new songs entered the market, and in 2020 about 22 million were added to Spotify. The three largest labels hold a 68% share of the music recording market and, the text says, take 76-85% of artists' royalties.
- Most people don’t care about decentralization. And it’s our fault.
Most people don't care about decentralization, and the author attributes this to how the concept is communicated. The author argues that decentralization should be explained through concrete examples rather than labels like "censorship-resistant" or "trustless," which people tend to misread. Examples offered include contributing to a DAO or open-source crypto project on Discord or GitHub compared with the difficulty of influencing FAANG, and moving friends between web3 social products compared with moving them from Twitter to Instagram.
- A path to a breakthrough web3 social app
The article argues that social apps are ruthlessly replaceable, so a new web3 social app can succeed only by offering something distinct, not by cloning existing platforms. It proposes a "Social App Canvas" with eight levers: social graph, features, proof of work, activity, intimacy, niche, vibes and culture, and exchange. It criticizes most web3 social apps as either overfinancializing interactions or copying web2 apps such as "Twitter but for crypto," and it cites the author's own Kiwi app, where the proof of work is finding and sharing a valuable crypto-related link.
- IP Protocols Part III: How to create permissionless Disney
The article argues that the next Disney will be built as a network of IP Protocols, where creators can make movies, games and stories within shared universes without asking permission, so worlds expand bottom-up. It proposes a step-by-step path for building such a protocol, starting with an MVP such as character descriptions, concept art, or a short story, then progressing to comics, novels, animation, movies and games. The author suggests funding and promoting other creators through NFT sales, ecosystem-style grants and endorsements, and curating content with community ratings, modeled on the AppStore.
- IP Protocols Part II: Gatekeepers' limitations and the power of composability
Centralized gatekeeping limits which fiction gets made, while permissionless publishing on the Internet has produced a vast, niche-rich body of non-fiction. According to The Atlantic, about 50,000 screenplays are registered with the Writer's Guild of America each year, and an unproduced screenplay has a 0.3 percent chance of becoming a studio feature. Harry Potter was rejected by 12 publishers before it went into print, and more than half of Amazon's book sales come from outside its top 130,000 titles. Remixing also matters, since the Twilight fan fiction "Master of the Universe" became even more popular than its source novel.
- IP Protocols Part I: Why the next MARVEL might start as an NFT collection
The author argues that the next MARVEL-style universe could operate more like Ethereum, with permissionless development that lets creators build their own adaptations and earn money from them. The argument rests on the idea that franchises like Star Wars and MARVEL function as protocols whose "Emotional Value Locked" grows as more apps, such as movies, games and fan works, interact with them. The article cites Toy Story's roughly $10B in merchandise revenue against Avatar's $150M as evidence that restricted control can be highly profitable, while noting that Ethereum's openness produced many scams alongside apps such as Uniswap and OpenSea.
- How to make people care about the core crypto values
The article argues that core crypto values such as censorship resistance, decentralization and immutability are poorly understood by the general public, and asks how to make them more appealing to the next wave of users. It gives examples of how these terms are heard: censorship resistance may suggest hiding harmful content, decentralization may suggest a chaotic group project, and immutability may suggest the inability to undo mistakes. The piece frames the question against a memecoin-driven market rally, and says it will explore the topic through crypto, marketing and psychology.