# Top stories on Kiwi News, week 28 2023

Mon 10 to Sun 16 July 2023
Page: https://news.kiwistand.com/weekly/2023-W28

The 20 top stories on Kiwi News from Mon 10 to Sun 16 July 2023, ranked by upvotes, comments and clicks, with 0 comments in total. Most-shared sources: twitter.com.

Summaries are AI summaries of the linked article.

## 1. Google Play Updates Policy to Allow NFTs in Apps & Games

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Google-Play-Updates-Policy-to-Allow-NFTs-in-Apps-and-Games?index=0x64aeeae55c174a0592922bfdbf79b1895766b2d79d5c2bb4fd250e9582c001be5d65d775
- Source: https://www.coindesk.com/web3/2023/07/12/google-play-changes-policy-on-tokenized-digital-assets-allowing-nfts-in-apps-and-games
- Submitted by starl3xx.eth, 8 upvotes, 0 comments

Google Play has updated its policy to let developers include digital assets such as NFTs in apps and games, provided companies disclose blockchain-based elements in the Play Console. In a blog post shared with CoinDesk, Google Play Group Product Manager Joseph Mills wrote that the change will let partners reimagine "traditional games with user-owned content" and boost "user loyalty through unique NFT rewards." Reddit, a partner on the policy, had its senior engineering manager Matt Williamson describe the guidelines as "aimed at creating a level playing field that promotes user trust." Developers may not promote earnings from playing or trading, and a Google Play spokesperson said the first tests may appear in late summer, with full rollout later this year.

## 2. Canadian judge rules thumbs-up emoji can represent contract agreement

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Canadian-judge-rules-thumbs-up-emoji-can-represent-contract-agreement?index=0x64ac6aaaa797fd0075a3b51554796af75a29fa0d3ccc55c512a840dca7799695af949a39
- Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/06/canada-judge-thumbs-up-emoji-sign-contract
- Submitted by freeatnet.eth, 5 upvotes, 0 comments

A Canadian judge ruled that a thumbs-up emoji can count as a valid signature for a contract, ordering farmer Chris Achter to pay C$82,000 ($61,442) for an unfulfilled flax sale. Justice Timothy Keene of the Court of King's Bench in Saskatchewan wrote that the court "readily acknowledges that a 👍 emoji is a non-traditional means to 'sign' a document" but that it was a valid way to convey the two purposes of a signature in these circumstances. Grain buyer Kent Mickleborough, of South West Terminal, had texted Achter a contract to deliver 86 tonnes of flax in November, and Achter replied with the emoji. Achter says it only confirmed receipt, while Mickleborough argued it meant acceptance.

## 3. [Blog post] Crypto skeptic dev on working as co-founder on DeFi project

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Blog-post-Crypto-skeptic-dev-on-working-as-co-founder-on-DeFi-project?index=0x64afa4b49ef3ef344fc547f35f2f6d147d009855a00093a0d35f73c597871fc5d12e0ebe
- Source: https://anicetnougaret.fr/blog/farswap-xp
- Submitted by lens.ahn.eth, 6 upvotes, 0 comments

## 4. Coinbase Wallet integrates XMTP

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Coinbase-Wallet-integrates-XMTP?index=0x64aec76d97736d33a96ffadd3921755c27ba9e11dcf761e52e64f66c1ae0f0c09b0edeb7
- Source: https://twitter.com/CoinbaseWallet/status/1679144494229520385
- Submitted by macbudkowski.eth, 5 upvotes, 0 comments

## 5. Invisible Details of Interaction Design

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Invisible-Details-of-Interaction-Design?index=0x64ac40d70fe7f05998527c6f87e03d17c30e92cedfcdd92940b448f9b826a7dec9549901
- Source: https://rauno.me/craft/interaction-design
- Submitted by matallo.eth, 4 upvotes, 0 comments

Great interaction design can be understood by examining its invisible details, which often reuse real-world metaphors, such as swiping that suggests a deck of cards. Gestures should trigger actions based on intent: the iOS App Switcher dismisses an app only after the gesture ends, while lightweight overlays can trigger mid-swipe. Frequent keyboard and mouse actions, like command menus used hundreds of times a day, may feel better without animation, and the bmrks.com bookmarking tool felt faster after its motion was removed.

## 6. Lender bridges his Patek Phillipe watch into NFT to borrow money onchain

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Lender-bridges-his-Patek-Phillipe-watch-into-NFT-to-borrow-money-onchain?index=0x64ac6d861d25e100bdf40098fd3b4c08b63e647a223979a202b6ec94786bf15fc39671d6
- Source: https://twitter.com/CirrusNFT/status/1678502614730936320?s=20
- Submitted by macbudkowski.eth, 6 upvotes, 0 comments

A lender gave a stranger a $35,000 loan at 12% APR using a Patek Philippe watch as collateral, with the arrangement run through NFTs on the Arcade platform. The borrower sent the watch to an escrow company, which returned an NFT representing ownership of the watch. After the borrower listed the NFT on Arcade and accepted the best loan offer, the NFT was moved to an escrow wallet until the loan was repaid or its term ended. The watch can only be retrieved by burning the NFT, so if the borrower defaults, the lender can claim the watch. The post argues that tokenized ownership of real-world assets is a likely direction for future lending.

## 7. A big little idea called legibility

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/A-big-little-idea-called-legibility?index=0x64b0f625cffbad2c58937043e4c7787d463808b4a0f597d73acd879e5b928b1019fb581e
- Source: https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2010/07/26/a-big-little-idea-called-legibility
- Submitted by macbudkowski.eth, 4 upvotes, 0 comments

James C. Scott's book Seeing Like a State argues that a recurring failure pattern in large-scale projects stems from a desire for "legibility," meaning a simplified, readable order that is imposed on complex realities. Scott describes the thinking behind this failure as "authoritarian high modernism," and the blog author presents it as a recipe that starts with misreading complexity as irrationality. The book's examples include German "scientific" forestry, which replaced diverse wild forests with monoculture stands measured only by acreage, yield and market value, and planned cities such as Brasilia and Chandigarh. The text also suggests that the urge to impose order may be driven by anxiety about apparent chaos.

## 8. KiwiNews: submit and upvote links without confirming them in your wallet

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/KiwiNews-submit-and-upvote-links-without-confirming-them-in-your-wallet?index=0x64b116a64f642be5be1d67d7fa75bfc9cbaa2a553dad07ea0d7d7d762fc4e6a1858756c4
- Source: https://news.kiwistand.com/settings
- Submitted by freeatnet.eth, 4 upvotes, 0 comments

## 9. Why privacy failed

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Why-privacy-failed?index=0x64b3ef21aa849b0292baf37c2f914bf65e8b02fd62d31fc15d9e9006164140229f6173ca
- Source: https://zeeprime.capital/why-privacy-failed-zk-part-2
- Submitted by tim, 5 upvotes, 0 comments

The article asks why privacy has failed to gain adoption and argues that privacy tools conflict with user experience, social norms and perceived need for privacy. It says Signal flatlined at around 40 million users in the last couple of years, Brave's growth has also flatlined, and the VPN market, estimated at around $44 billion in 2022 and growing 17% a year, is driven mainly by commercial uses such as watching Netflix shows from other countries. The author proposes that rules-based, compliant privacy solutions combined with pseudonymity could offer a workable middle ground, though the article ends mid-thought.

## 10. Juan Benet of Protocol Labs on Driving Breakthroughs in Computing

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Juan-Benet-of-Protocol-Labs-on-Driving-Breakthroughs-in-Computing?index=0x64acb831ec994f3dac5246fd988a2bd2a8cb7bfd6cf2fed8f5f0ff197c90dd553ff829ab
- Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-nU_MI2lV4
- Submitted by msaki.eth, 4 upvotes, 0 comments

## 11. CSS Findings From The Threads App

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/CSS-Findings-From-The-Threads-App?index=0x64b47256ce27650946767ae644e2e026bdb9bc4a6c502efed7537afdb5fccc9b237018b4
- Source: https://ishadeed.com/article/threads-app-css
- Submitted by matallo.eth, 4 upvotes, 0 comments

The author, a CSS teacher, inspected the CSS of public Threads posts viewable on the web and reports several layout techniques used in the app. The post layout is built with CSS Grid, using a 2-column, 4-row grid with items manually placed via grid-column and grid-row, and the avatar is padded and spans two rows. The author notes that fixed row values such as 21px and 19px appear to be manual UI fine-tuning, and that the thread-line swirl is an SVG path whose first segment length is calculated with JavaScript. The author also highlights an inline CSS variable that sets the tab count for the profile tabs grid, and the use of dvh units on the splash screen.

## 12. BotSwarm - a typescript library for scheduling onchain transactions

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/BotSwarm-a-typescript-library-for-scheduling-onchain-transactions?index=0x64af0d166ce6da1ecfea7b4b539b9f529e1384cd1f1524ba2042f1496f70334fbdaf98b8
- Source: https://github.com/nounish/botswarm
- Submitted by @wiz, 3 upvotes, 0 comments

BotSwarm is a typesafe TypeScript library for scheduling onchain transactions, with tools for building Farcaster bots that react to smart contract events. Its Ethereum adapter, built on Viem, lets users watch contract events, read and write contracts, and schedule contract calls to execute after a given block number. Failed tasks are retried a few blocks later once, then removed from the queue if they fail again, and tasks are cached to .botswarm/cache.json. The Farcaster adapter wraps farcaster-js to support casting, reacting, and profile updates.

## 13. Threads, Twitter, and the future of social media 

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Threads-Twitter-and-the-future-of-social-media?index=0x64b2c0f6c03fc9aeb9f68aac65a029771fde95d6e30b14da4b826ea845e9964843655785
- Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/15/opinion/social-media-threads-twitter-reddit.html
- Submitted by macbudkowski.eth, 3 upvotes, 0 comments

## 14. Interview: Chris Miller, historian and author of "Chip War"

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Interview-Chris-Miller-historian-and-author-of-Chip-War?index=0x64ad954b15880436d26afd35c73c72528eaa596bcce03fbcd220391ef17140e48550e08b
- Source: https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/interview-chris-miller-historian
- Submitted by m-j-r.eth, 2 upvotes, 0 comments

This is an interview with Chris Miller, a Tufts University historian and author of "Chip War," conducted by N.S. about U.S. semiconductor export controls and China's chip industry. Miller says the controls were a plausible way to slow China's military-relevant computing, citing China's progress at YMTC and the failure of sanctions to deter Russia. He argues that China's push to end reliance on the U.S. predates the controls, which Xi and other leaders articulated from at least 2014, and that replicating ASML's lithography tools would be extremely difficult. He also says the CHIPS Act's investment tax credit, which expires at the end of 2026, will strongly affect U.S. fab costs.

## 15. jokerace v3 obviates the need for tokens to run onchain communities

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/jokerace-v3-obviates-the-need-for-tokens-to-run-onchain-communities?index=0x64ad8caf823289b5ed971657e60e9ba1b475dd19ff74dd9e5034b08bfd1eda63b9adbf84
- Source: https://twitter.com/jokerace_xyz/status/1678795422440243200?s=20
- Submitted by starl3xx.eth, 3 upvotes, 0 comments

## 16. The War Between Browsers: Will Brave Browser Overtake Chrome?

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/The-War-Between-Browsers-Will-Brave-Browser-Overtake-Chrome?index=0x64ae468cb96ec45f5ac39e024dec729e7855817ee9807c027650d4a6fd02a90f230368a0
- Source: https://medium.com/a41-ventures/web3-bat-series-2-the-war-between-browsers-will-brave-browser-overtake-chrome-578ad1d065cb
- Submitted by accountless.eth, 3 upvotes, 0 comments

## 17. Optimism fee calculator

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Optimism-fee-calculator?index=0x64ad34093f83c1b6ba51a982dcdd6b5c2cd0767e96144417fb4035bc73d2ea555c8a30dd
- Source: https://dune.com/haddis3/optimism-fee-calculator
- Submitted by macbudkowski.eth, 2 upvotes, 0 comments

## 18. Request to investigate Prometheum (qualified custodian with an ATS) 

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Request-to-investigate-Prometheum-qualified-custodian-with-an-ATS?index=0x64ad500896315bfa9077d4f8d88e844cd5ec91b3ecc0dbc66f00b66a909ba25ea5da7b38
- Source: https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/DOJ-SEC-Oversight-Letter-re-Prometheum-July-202311.pdf
- Submitted by thatalexpalmer.eth, 2 upvotes, 0 comments

## 19. The unknown path to a decentralized future

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/The-unknown-path-to-a-decentralized-future?index=0x64affb0b08c7b2c83c51e51e54d36b9afad60ea6d40bf2bcaca2244bb454128504ff48ea
- Source: https://www.usv.com/writing/2017/09/the-unknown-path-to-a-decentralized-future
- Submitted by thatalexpalmer.eth, 2 upvotes, 0 comments

The author argues that both paths toward a decentralized future, starting new protocols from scratch and decentralizing existing services over time, should be pursued rather than restricted. Blockchains and crypto currencies are described as a foundational breakthrough that could disrupt large centralized players such as Google, Facebook, Amazon and Apple. The author says that while some token sales may be driven by investor pressure for liquidity, many entrepreneurs pursue ICOs out of genuine conviction, based on first-hand conversations. The author concludes that fellow travelers should not be accused of ill intentions for choosing a different path.

## 20. Base Mainnet is open for builders

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Base-Mainnet-is-open-for-builders?index=0x64b020af3fb22db4b78c806ce9f53298a001fb3eb6ec7725b257676acce00ef3c718a3f8
- Source: https://base.mirror.xyz/hwNwqXHVoLlO8s4DZppog4DfGvM34tigaDjOWuEJQfY
- Submitted by macbudkowski.eth, 6 upvotes, 0 comments