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29 stories by @kiwi-updates on Paragraph have been shared on Kiwi News since 14 September 2023, with 215 upvotes and 19 comments in total. The latest was shared on 21 November 2025. They are listed below, most upvoted first.
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- Kiwi shares revenue with their users
Kiwi, a link-sharing app, now pays its most active users in ETH from revenue generated when people mint a Kiwi Pass. Each Kiwi Pass currently costs 0.0319 ETH ($10.06), of which 0.002 ETH goes to the Kiwi treasury and the rest is split among the top 10 users by weekly karma score. Karma comes from submitting links (1 point each) and receiving upvotes (1 point per upvote), and the split counts only weekly scores. Kiwi says it has paid out five times since the program began on July 24, distributing 0.00378 ETH in total.
- We rewarded Kiwi contributors in the 4th RPGF round
Kiwi, a bootstrapped link aggregator, rewarded four community contributors in the fourth round of its retroactive public goods funding, distributing 0.34 ETH in this round on top of earlier rewards of 1.7 ETH and 2831 OP. Misha (mishaderidder.eth) received 0.1 ETH for being the most active user, with a karma score 8x that of the fourth-place user. Lea (leafilipo.eth) received 0.1 ETH for branding work, Rainer (rvolz.eth) received 0.08 ETH for maintaining the Dune dashboard, and Noctis (noctisatrae.eth) received 0.06 ETH for six commits to the main repository.
- Kiwi 5th Retro Funding and $KIWIMAS airdrop
Kiwi's fifth Retro funding round rewards contributors with over $18,000 in value (2.8158 ETH and 3571 OP), plus an airdrop of $KIWIMAS tokens, a memecoin created by community member tudorizer.eth. The largest single ETH reward, 0.2226 ETH, goes to rvolz.eth, who helped improve Kiwi nodes and built Kiwi Search. Other rewards went to contributors for security fixes, app design, curation and the Nouns writing contest. The round also shares 740 OP and 0.301 ETH with all contributors so far, and the team says it spent over 1 ETH on $KIWIMAS tokens, sharing over 20% of its holdings with the community.
- Results of the t2 x Kiwi x Lens writing challenge
The t2 x Kiwi x Lens writing contest on decentralized social has ended, and the Lens team, which sponsored it, agreed to reward all winners after two posts tied at each of the 2nd and 3rd places. The prize pool was topped up from 1,200 USDC to 1,680 USDC, giving one 1st place, two 2nd places, two 3rd places and one 4th place. Gokhan.eth won 1st place with 21 upvotes for "On the Decentralized Social Networks—A Useless Box, or an Emergence?" (600 USDC). The 2nd place winners, 183aaros.eth and ameliehua.eth, receive 300 USDC each, and the 3rd place winners, zinkk.eth and theblockchainsocialist.eth, receive 180 USDC each.
- Breaking records, Comments, RetroPGF, Roadmap & other Kiwi updates
Kiwi News reports record growth over the last three months, with 2,000+ monthly readers, 1,200+ all-time minted NFTs for paying users, and 140+ Monthly Active Curators. The update highlights the launch of comments, which the team built with a 10,000-character limit at the protocol level to favor depth. Kiwi also received 28,000 OP from Optimism RetroPGF3, and its newsletter grew to over 700 subscribers.
- Results of the Dappcon x Kiwi writing challenge
Kiwi announced the winners of its Dappcon writing challenge, which had an IRL track for attendees and a URL track for people watching Dappcon talks, with a 500 xDAI prize per track. Zinkk.eth won the IRL track with "Fresh blood at Dappcon 24 Berlin," a recap of a first-time attendee's conference journey, and gokhan.eth won the URL track with "Arguing for the Transdimensional Bloc," which argues for developing technologies collaboratively and cross-disciplinarily to mitigate existential risks. Tim and Mac, both Kiwi co-founders, submitted non-competing entries. Kiwi says it plans more contests.
- Kiwi Search is here
Kiwi News has launched KN Search, a keyword search tool for its links and comments, built by contributor rvolz.eth (Rainer). The site says the tool can search its 11,000+ links and 2,000+ comments in a second or two and can sort results by popularity or freshness. Rainer, who created the Dune Dashboard and runs his own Kiwi node, said that older stories tend to get lost on the Kiwi News site because of its shorter time horizon, and that the curated stories on the Kiwi News protocol make it a useful source for a search engine.
- "Into the Nouniverse" writing contest
Kiwi Updates announces the "Into the Nouniverse" writing contest, run with the Nouns community, with 3.5 ETH in prizes for crypto writers who explain Nouns. The contest runs from October 14 to November 4, 2024, and entries are judged in two tracks: "Vox Populi," decided by upvotes on Kiwi, and "Vox Judicis," decided by a jury from the Nouns and Kiwi teams. Prizes are 0.875 ETH for first place, 0.4375 ETH for second, 0.2625 ETH for third and 0.175 ETH for fourth. Voting concludes on November 6 at 6 pm CET, and winners are revealed in the following days.
- Submissions to the writing contest ended. Now it's time to vote.
The Kiwi x t2 x Lens writing contest on decentralized social has closed submissions, with 21 entries that each took a different angle, including philosophical essays, contrarian takes, app reviews, business analyses and a short story. The contest is now in its voting phase: winners will be decided by the total number of upvotes their posts receive, and Kiwi users are invited to read the entries and vote for those they find valuable. Authors are competing for a 1,200 USDC prize pool, and voting runs until 23:59:59 (UTC -12) on July 15th.
- Kiwi opens Feedbot for submissions
Kiwi has set up a Feedbot that automatically adds new posts from a curated list of top crypto blogs to the /New feed, where its community curators can upvote them. The list includes authors such as Vitalik, Polynya, Balaji, Dan Fowler, Blockchain Socialist and Cerv1, and each new post starts with 0 upvotes until a curator upvotes it, which gives it 1 upvote and labels the curator as the submitter. Kiwi says it is focused on crypto tech, products and culture rather than trading-related content, and blogs can apply to be featured through a form.
- Kiwi introduces tipping
Kiwi has launched tipping for all users, built with partner Dawn so that tips work with any wallet and take a few clicks to send. The team presents the feature as a way to add utility to Kiwipass NFTs, letting holders earn tips for submitting strong links, and as a way to reward curators with an onchain "Superlike" beyond upvotes and retweets. The article says that subsidizing posts with tokens has often failed, citing Jason Calacanis's Mahalo, which lost to Quora, while platforms like Buy me a coffee, Patreon, Substack and Twitch handle large volumes of user support. Dawn Pay picks the cheapest and fastest route for each tip, usually USDC on an L2 with ETH as a fallback, and tips can be tracked on a Dune dashboard.
- “Pluralistic Future of L2s” writing contest
The "Pluralistic Future of L2s" writing contest, the second edition run by Kiwi, t2 and Lens, invites writers to submit posts on layer 2 networks inspired by Vitalik Buterin's essay "Layer 2s as cultural extensions of Ethereum." Writers can win 1,200 in USDC prizes, with 600 USDC for first place, 300 for second, 180 for third and 120 for fourth, decided by upvotes on Kiwi. Submissions were originally due by September 17 but the deadline was extended to September 22, with final scores calculated on September 26 and winners revealed within five days.
- Taking curation to the next level: Kiwi Product Update
Kiwi, a community-curated media platform, reports that it has 1,200+ monthly readers and 80+ monthly curators and has shipped a range of product updates since its last update. The main changes include Lists for diving into single subjects, such as The Nouniverse curated by ccarella.eth, plus Twitter and Farcaster bots, a KiwiPass referral program paying 0.00222ETH per referred mint via ZORA protocol rewards, and a reworked Main Feed algorithm. The update also notes that the team distributed 10,000 GoerliETH to teams across several ETH events and received the 3rd Purple Grants and 1st Warpcast grants.
- Farcaster 2026 writing contest
Kiwi Updates announced the "Farcaster 2026" writing contest, run with Purple, which asks writers to explore paths Farcaster can take to reach the next level in 2026 and offers 2 ETH in prizes. Submissions run from January 20 to February 10, and writers must choose one of five prompts, such as how Farcaster clients could serve both OGs and newcomers. Winners are split across a "Popular Vote" track, decided by Kiwi upvotes from Purple owners, Farcaster Power Users and active Kiwi members, and a "Jury Vote" track decided by a jury from the Purple and Kiwi teams. Prizes are 0.5 ETH for first place, 0.3 ETH for second and 0.2 ETH for third, across two tracks.
- Request for Proposals for the first Kiwi Retroactive Public Goods Funding
Kiwi is running its first Retroactive Public Goods Funding, distributing around 25% of the NFT revenue generated so far back to its community. Unlike the last round, when the team chose how to allocate the treasury itself, community members will decide who receives the funds. Contributors can be nominated for developing apps, promoting the project, or sharing valuable links. The announcement says the funds won't be life-changing but describes the round as the start of something bigger.
- Everything that's new in Kiwi News
Kiwi News shipped a series of updates over the summer, including a Farcaster mini app, personalized feeds, and iOS improvements. The Farcaster mini app works on both the newly launched Base App and Farcaster, and it now sends notifications for breaking news when the curators spot an important story. For logged-in users and those using Kiwi from a mini app, personalized feeds were added, and already clicked stories are greyed out to reduce clutter. The Hot feed also gained an option to show the newest stories first, and the iOS TestFlight app now supports sign-in with any WalletConnect wallet and a share dialog for submitting links.
- Kiwi launches Tipping Frames to support writers
Kiwi has launched transaction frames that let every Farcaster user tip writers $5 directly in the Farcaster feed, starting from Day 1 after the Farcaster team allowlisted the frame. Users follow the steps in a GIF on a writer's tipping frame, and writers who want one can DM @macbudkowski on Telegram for high-touch support during this first version. In v1, Kiwi takes 0.0002 ETH from each 0.0015 ETH tip, and the article says Kiwi will probably decrease its share if the frames achieve scale.
- Kiwi Weekly is back!
- Results of the “Farcaster 2026” writing contest
Kiwi Updates announced the results of its "Farcaster 2026" writing contest, which received over 40 submissions across a Popular Vote track and a Jury Vote track. Popular Vote winners were determined by upvotes on Kiwi, with top prizes of 0.3 ETH going to bradq.eth's "Growth Is About People, Story, & Onboarding" and pierrepauze.eth's "Why Farcaster should learn from Voldemort." In the Jury Vote track, judged by Mac, Chris, Jihad and Six, tombeck.eth's "Farcaster is a car" took first place and 0.5 ETH. Over 30 other essays were not featured in the recap, and a full list is linked.
- Results of the “Into the Nouniverse” writing contest
The "Into the Nouniverse" writing contest has ended, with 23 submissions and 113 eligible votes determining the winners across two tracks, Vox Populi (decided by Kiwi upvotes) and Vox Judicis (decided by a jury from the Nouns and Kiwi teams). In the Vox Populi track, bradq.eth and naomiii.eth tied for first place with 11 upvotes each, and auditless.eth placed third with 8 upvotes. In the Vox Judicis track, robotfishgirl.eth took first place with 14 jury votes, and simondlr.eth placed second with 8 jury votes, and that essay's "Delivery At Dawn" animation reportedly generated $529,000 for Protocol Guild and $130,000 for Nouns.
- Kiwi Pass introduces new pricing and makes Kiwi subscriptions transferable
Kiwi Pass, the NFT that represents a Kiwi News subscription, is now fully transferable and uses a Dutch auction for primary sales pricing. Holders can sell unused subscriptions on the secondary market or send them to friends as gifts. Under the new pricing, the price rises when more people mint per day than the target and falls when fewer do, a mechanism inspired by Paradigm's Variable Rate Generalized Dutch Auction (VRGDA). The team says the higher price is meant to preserve Kiwi culture against the effects of the Eternal September, and it notes that airdrops currently count as mints in the formula.
- Kiwi x Dappcon Writing Challenge
Kiwi, a crypto content curation app, is running the Dappcon Writing Challenge with Dappcon, a European crypto conference, offering two 500 xDAI prizes. Writers can submit Dappcon '24-related posts to Kiwi between 21/05 and 9/06, either as recaps of attending in person or as posts inspired by talks watched online. Winners, one per category, will be determined by Kiwi upvotes, with ties decided by Tim and Mac, and final scores will be calculated on 15/06.
- Kiwi News adds "Anon Mode"
Kiwi News has added an "Anon Mode" that disables most tracking and lets users submit, comment and upvote anonymously, as a response to X's new feature that shows the country a user joined from. X says the feature is meant to minimize nation-state psyops, while crypto privacy advocates have called it "geodoxxing." To enter Anon Mode, users open an incognito window and visit news.kiwistand.com?anon, or log in through the regular site and click Anon Mode. The mode creates a new Ethereum address per interaction, removes Posthog and Google Analytics tracking, and removes all third-party hosted preview images.
- Details about Kiwi News’ upcoming RetroPGF
Kiwi News will share 10% of its Optimism RetroPGF allocation of 28,318 OP with its contributors, amounting to 2,831 OP or about $9,000 as of February 5, 2024. Founders Mac and the author ("me") say the share goes to past contributors who built the product, and that eligibility covers prior ETH allocations. Previous internal rounds in August and October 2023 paid around ten contributors a total of 1.2975 ETH, and the OP is vesting linearly until May 5, 2024, with invoicing allowed bi-weekly above 100 EUR.
- Kiwi moves to Optimism
Kiwi has moved from Ethereum mainnet to Optimism, an Ethereum layer-2 network, to improve user experience and lower costs. On Optimism, minting triggers automatic delegation, so users can curate the feed without signing each action in their wallets from Day 1. Mainnet minting cost gas fees of $5 to $25, while Optimism minting is described as virtually free. The mint price was also lowered to 0.00666 ETH (roughly $10) to onboard more people. All Ethereum mainnet NFT holders received the new Optimism NFTs by airdrop, while their old mainnet NFTs remain in wallets without utility.
- Results of the Arena: Devconflict writing contest
The Devconflict writing contest has ended, with 12 submissions on topics including liquid vs. vanilla staking, onboarding the next billion vs. next million users, Gnosis as L1 vs. L2, and ossification vs. agility. Prizes totaled $1,500 in xDAI, with abhijithg's "Onboarding the next billion vs the next million debate" taking first place for 750 xDAI. Papajams' "Stability-Transformation; Ossification-Agility. Ethereum's Dilemma" placed second and won 525 xDAI, while five essays tied for third and split 225 xDAI, at 45 xDAI each. Gnosis sponsored the prizes and co-organized the event.
- "Pluralistic Future of L2s" writing contest results
The Kiwi team has announced results for its "Pluralistic Future of L2s" writing contest, which drew 28 submissions and 139 votes. Simon de la Rouviere won first place with an essay comparing blockchains to cities and L2s to surrounding neighborhoods, earning 600 USDC. Mareko.eth placed second for 300 USDC with a piece on Celo as a cultural extension of Ethereum, followed by 183aaros.eth in third (180 USDC) and ahouraz.eth in fourth (120 USDC). The article says over 20 hours of reading was spent on the submissions.
- Kiwi RetroPGF2 results are in
Kiwi has announced the results of its RetroPGF awards, distributing 0.26 ETH in total, which is 10% of its NFT revenue for the last period. The ETH was split into four tiers based on the weight of users' contributions, with votes allocated by active Kiwi users according to their karma. Recipients include Dawn Wallet for integrating tipping, Freeatnet.eth for running kiwinews.lol and RSS feeds, and Rvolz.eth for running the Dune dashboard. Users who received allocations in this and earlier Kiwi RetroPGFs are also eligible for a share of about 2,800 OP ($9,000-$10,000) from OP RetroPGF.
- Kiwi Farcaster Channel story
Kiwi, one of the first channels on Farcaster, initially saw little engagement with discussion posts and shifted to posting top-quality crypto links, which it says caused the channel to grow. The team reports that its early posts, which asked for feedback and shared features, drew only about 4 to 6 likes at most, and that users preferred discussing the product in the Kiwi holders' Telegram chat. The article's central argument is that channels behave like products, so creators should identify what subscribers expect in subject and format and then deliver it. The author also suggests that channels could one day support in-channel bots with added features, though this is presented as an idea to explore.