# Request for comments: Remove kiwi pass? Pull Request

Source: https://github.com/attestate/kiwistand/pull/170
Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Request-for-comments-Remove-kiwi-pass-Pull-Request?index=0x68fa639737f0e77fcfc282257ec82979e8d4533919efc4494e9f7db589e478edc952f54b
Submitted by tim on 2025-10-23 UTC, 3 upvotes, 3 comments

## Summary

TimDaub opened a request for comments on removing the Kiwi pass, with five commits that also fix the X og image download and remove a TG file, the leaderboard, and the TG invite page. On October 23, 2025, TimDaub asked whether to proceed via chat. On October 24, the changes were manually merged into main and the pull request was closed, with no reviews, assignees, or labels recorded.

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Oct 23, 2025

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Shall I do it chat?

TimDaub added 5 commits

October 23, 2025 11:09

Fix x og image download

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Remove TG file

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Remove leaderboard

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Remove TG invite page

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Remove Kiwi pass

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manually merged in main

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## Comments

**tim**: gm, 

if you're reading the token holder chat you might have heard me talk about removing the Kiwi Pass token gating. This PR is doing that. I'd like to give people who want to hard-object the removal a chance to speak up here

**misha**: OK with that. Seems sensible. Maybe Kiwi pass might still function as something to get certain perks. For example governance :) or to participate in a writing contest, or maybe to get certain rewards if any. Something like that. You could also make the pass more expensive in that case so it becomes an explicit support of Kiwi, also financially. Maybe like Farcaster Pro you have Kiwi Pro! You can get a check mark lol so you are more trusted as a Kiwi curator.

**tim**: > Maybe Kiwi pass might still function as something to get certain perks.

Cool idea. I actually hadn't even thought of it. But yes, that would be neat!

While I feel it is pretty scary to just remove the pass from the protocol, I do feel like it gives more room to explore more ideas. As you said: It'd be quite easy to make a site that gives people a Telegram invite link when they hold the pass etc.. I'm also somewhat happy to turn off the primary market minting capability. And I'm frankly also looking forward to getting rid of that smart contract which I should have actually deployed myself initially.