Top crypto stories of week 24, 2023
Mon 12 to Sun 18 June 2023
The 20 top stories on Kiwi News from Mon 12 to Sun 18 June 2023, ranked by upvotes, comments and clicks, with 0 comments in total. Most-shared sources: github.com, decrypt.co, twitter.com.
Text under a title is an AI summary of the linked article.
- Uniswap v4 Core repo (github.com)
Uniswap v4 Core is the draft code repository for Uniswap v4, a new automated market maker protocol with extensible, customizable pools, released so the protocol can be built in public with community feedback. The repo's README says the project is expected to be a months-long process and that any contribution is welcome. All pool state is managed in the PoolManager.sol contract, and integrators call unlock, then implement unlockCallback to run actions such as swap, modifyLiquidity and donate. Pools can be initialized with a hook contract, and the set of callbacks executed on a pool cannot change after initialization.
- a16z crypto expanding to the UK (a16zcrypto.com)
- Varda: The Space Drug Factory. Expanding the Economic Bounds of Humankind (notboring.co)
Varda is launching the world's first commercial space factory aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, a test flight meant to show it can build in orbit and return a payload safely to Earth. The factory will orbit Earth for a little over a month before returning to the Utah desert in mid-July. If the mission goes well, Varda will crystallize the drug ritonavir in microgravity to explore how gravity shapes its crystal structure, which affects solubility and bioavailability. Co-founder and CEO Will Bruey and co-founder and chairman Delian Asparouhov lead the company, which is 874 days old at launch.
- Apple gives Damus 2 weeks to remove BTC tipping (decrypt.co)
Apple's App Store has told Damus, a decentralized social networking app, that it has fourteen days, until June 27, to bring its tipping feature into compliance or face removal. Damus said the warning came from Apple's concern that "zaps," which let users send Bitcoin over the Lightning Network to content creators, could be used to sell digital content outside Apple's in-app purchase system. Damus developer William Casarin told Decrypt that the decision threatens any app that interacts with Lightning in any way.
- Ethereum Protocol Fellowship: Work through the winter (blog.ethereum.org)
The Ethereum Protocol Fellowship (EPF) has opened applications for its fourth cohort, with the deadline extended to June 18, 2023. The program aims to support development of Ethereum's core protocol by giving aspiring contributors experience working on client implementations, testing, specifications and core protocol research. The fourth cohort runs from July through November 2023 and ends with an in-person event at Devconnect in Istanbul. Selected fellows receive a monthly stipend and access to mentors from the core development community, and the program is also open to permissionless participants, who receive the same benefits and support.
- Hinman's speech released in Ripple Labs filing (theblock.co)
- Jesse Pollak: Base, Coinbase's path to building an L2 (intothebytecode.xyz)
- Map of Network States (twitter.com)
The author, Niklas Anzinger, frames the network state as a strategy for governing the built world and says it is linked to building new cities. He quotes Balaji's claim that "bits reopen innovation in atoms," with innovation in biomedicine, robotics, and energy downstream of the network state rather than upstream. Anzinger says he wants network states and new cities to speed up technological development in the real world, and presents a map of this fragmented space as an attempt to make sense of it.
- ~3500 subreddits go private as communities protest Reddit's new API access fees (bbc.com)
Thousands of Reddit communities went private for 48 hours in protest at new charges Reddit is imposing on developers of third-party apps, which are used to browse the platform. The blackout covers 3,489 subreddits, including five of the ten most popular, such as r/gaming, r/aww, r/Music, r/todayilearned and r/pics, each with more than 30 million members. Christian Selig, developer of the Apollo app, claimed the fees would cost him $20m (£15.9m) to keep operating, while a Reddit spokesperson said Apollo was "notably less efficient" than other apps and that pricing is based on usage levels comparable to Reddit's own costs. All four named third-party apps, Apollo, Reddit is Fun, Sync and ReddPlanet, have said they will shut down.
- Reddit threatens to replace “inactive” moderators (reddit.com)
- Ethereum devs cry foul on Uniswap v4 'open source' promises (decrypt.co)
Uniswap released version 4 of its decentralized exchange under a Business Source License (BSL), and Ethereum developers in the open source community say calling it open source is misleading. Lefteris Karapetsas, founder of rotki, said the choice shows Uniswap "doesn't understand open source" and believes its code is its moat. Under the BSL 1.1, the code is publicly viewable and can be copied, modified and redistributed, but it cannot be used for commercial or production purposes for four years, after which it converts to a General Purpose License. Scott Lewis said Uniswap's claim to have open sourced v4 misrepresents a four-year proprietary license, while Uniswap lead engineer Noah Zinsmeister said four years strikes a reasonable balance between innovation and exclusive rights.
- Prometheum story gets even better (twitter.com)
- Alexandria: Project Tenet - a community project to embed all human belief (github.com)
Project Tenet is a community initiative to embed all of human belief, with a status page tracking which texts are covered. Its chunking guidelines call for dividing scripture such as the Bible by verse line, keeping reasonably sized chapters whole, and otherwise splitting documents into four-paragraph chunks that overlap by one paragraph. All content is to be converted to CSV files with book, chapter and verse metadata in each row. The status list marks the Bhagavad Gita, Quran, King James Bible, Book of Mormon and Analects as done.
- DWR joins Purple (warpcast.com)
- Dynamic Pricing for Kiwi NFTs (hackmd.io)
- Les Greys: Founder of Grey Studio and World Builder Collection (humans-of-farcaster.simplecast.com)
- Farcaster’s @v proposes off-chain ENS usernames (youtu.be)
- Republicans introduce bill to remove SEC Chain Gary Gensler (foxnews.com)
Republican Reps. Warren Davidson of Ohio and Tom Emmer of Minnesota have introduced the SEC Stabilization Act, which would remove SEC Chairman Gary Gensler from his post and restructure the commission. According to the article, the bill would redistribute power from the chair to other commissioners, add a sixth commissioner, create an executive director position, and prevent any political party from controlling more than three seats. The lawmakers cite what they call Gensler's "long series of abuses" under the current structure. The article also notes that Gensler was chief financial officer of Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign, and that he said he was not aware of the campaign's payment for the Steele dossier when questioned by Rep. Byron Donalds. The SEC declined to comment on the bill.
- Dawn Wallet changelog: „Kiwi added“ (warpcast.com)
- Connor McCormick (FC:@nor) interview on Greenpill Podcast (youtube.com)