# Top stories on Kiwi News, week 31 2024

Mon 29 July to Sun 4 August 2024
Page: https://news.kiwistand.com/weekly/2024-W31

The 20 top stories on Kiwi News from Mon 29 July to Sun 4 August 2024, ranked by upvotes, comments and clicks, with 22 comments in total. Most-shared sources: warpcast.com, x.com.

Summaries are AI summaries of the linked article.

## 1. OPSEC: How to avoid being murdered for Bitcoin?

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/OPSEC-How-to-avoid-being-murdered-for-Bitcoin?index=0x66a86b0897ae1fc7344614896fdcc7920abf7804d620e5eccc1894cb30f193e872ee52cb
- Source: https://www.theblock.co/post/308067/29-year-old-bitcoiner-robbed-and-murdered-in-kyiv-for-200000-in-bitcoin
- Submitted by ⛓🧙‍♂.eth, 12 upvotes, 8 comments

## 2. New ways of monetizing a block explorer

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/New-ways-of-monetizing-a-block-explorer?index=0x66ab5b34883d59486e442fe2faa12ec085641914925ae907c5261143286df43e76e89186
- Source: https://jaack.montaigne.io/new-ways-of-monetizing-a-block-explorer
- Submitted by 0x45cC...BF22, 10 upvotes, 0 comments

The author argues that block explorers are expensive to run and that advertising will not sustain them for smaller chains in the near term, so new revenue models are needed. Etherscan's Explorer-as-a-Service was paid for by a few chains, including BNB, Fantom and Polygon, but it can cost up to 1.5 million dollars a year, while Routescan starts at roughly 350 dollars a month. The article points to Mempool explorer's new paid service that expedites unconfirmed transactions, noting it had 158,000 dollars in gross revenue over more than a year and about 120,000 daily users.

## 3. Introducing DegenCast

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Introducing-DegenCast?index=0x66a7b416bc14f5ef3947786d09d627069875b3100b1382fa7547d30877c5da060e64b92e
- Source: https://paragraph.xyz/@dgcast/q1OZS1LJSSqoH3ICOgnQ?referrer=0xEE3CA4dd4CeB3416915Eddc6cDaDB4A6060434d4
- Submitted by qiaoliang.eth, 11 upvotes, 0 comments

DegenCast is a platform for onchain content curation on Farcaster, where users stake $DEGEN tokens to propose content and curate it through community voting. Approved content is minted as part of a channel's collection with a unique token ID and can be minted on a bonding curve. Once liquidity reaches a certain threshold, the channel's curation token is launched on UniswapV3, and the project is built with $DEGEN by a team led by the user liang.

## 4. dwr on Farcaster marketing & expanding beyond crypto

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/dwr-on-Farcaster-marketing-and-expanding-beyond-crypto?index=0x66aa221f689c8b7902bd415a0587d66fc9760b426b6aaa7fc96aa2b291da35c76423dd90
- Source: https://warpcast.com/dwr.eth/0x1724054e
- Submitted by macbudkowski.eth, 9 upvotes, 3 comments

## 5. Meet Gnosis AI

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Meet-Gnosis-AI?index=0x66a8aad132bbca4c9c9de37a4ced99de89300388bae21c0bc0ad81fc94cf6bd5cd690af5
- Source: https://www.gnosis.io/blog/meet-gnosis-ai
- Submitted by 0x4DD0...85D9, 8 upvotes, 0 comments

Gnosis Labs has introduced Gnosis AI, a division focused on AI agents for web3, currently centered on agent-to-agent payments and prediction markets, with the goal of making Gnosis the Schelling point for AI agents in web3. The team argues that prediction markets with substantial liquidity and many rational participants can accurately forecast event probabilities, and that AI agents can supply those participants. Gnosis AI has developed trader agents with different strategies, and the top performing ones reach an accuracy of around 65%, according to the article. The team also runs a "Social agent" that posts tweets explaining the rationale behind its client agent's bets, and it plans to enhance the agents' autonomy and accuracy.

## 6. Super Mario in CRDT

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Super-Mario-in-CRDT?index=0x66acb1bfdae6d8ea37c7a3a4dd1280903ebd73adc61aa2605856739d28a3a70cfe9edc4b
- Source: https://www.guiltygyoza.xyz/2024/05/super-mario-in-crdt
- Submitted by guiltygyoza.eth, 8 upvotes, 0 comments

## 7. How decentralized is Farcaster today?

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/How-decentralized-is-Farcaster-today?index=0x66ad208e84f289f7febd03f3b2a033ac4817a2dff14d71068f0b3964074150953aa1ef5a
- Source: https://warpcast.com/dwr.eth/0x03964505
- Submitted by macbudkowski.eth, 7 upvotes, 2 comments

## 8. Icebreaker secured $5 million in seed funding, led by CoinFund.

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Icebreaker-secured-dollar5-million-in-seed-funding-led-by-CoinFund?index=0x66aa208ccf94ad09074ba5c62f8d94625babd779acbd1ceb8ac7ee77d9e9ac0cd661c5d5
- Source: https://fortune.com/crypto/2024/07/31/google-and-coinbase-vets-raise-5-million-to-build-icebreaker-blockchains-answer-to-linkedin
- Submitted by 0xluo.eth, 5 upvotes, 2 comments

Icebreaker, a blockchain-based professional networking project often described as LinkedIn on a blockchain, announced $5 million in seed funding led by CoinFund, with participation from Accomplice, Anagram, and Legion Capital, among others. The company is valued at $21 million and aims to become the first open-source network for professional connections. Cofounders Dan Stone and Jack Dillé, who previously worked at Google and Coinbase, say the project will let users move their existing profiles and networks into one verified channel, and the new funding will go to scaling the team and product building. CoinFund CIO Alex Felix said the firm is proud to back the team's mission to introduce true ownership of professional identity.

## 9. Vocdoni tech used in voting for the future President of Catalonia

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Vocdoni-tech-used-in-voting-for-the-future-President-of-Catalonia?index=0x66ace9e58b0d92e41f7b55cd01399d9a7a95e6f6700d8077bc633211b66e70d08904eff1
- Source: https://warpcast.com/do/0xc59cff43
- Submitted by macbudkowski.eth, 7 upvotes, 0 comments

Vocdoni's technology is being used by Esquerra Republicana, the ruling party in Catalonia, for a direct democracy vote to choose the future president of Catalonia. The article's author says the voting phase began 1.5 hours before the post and that more than 30% of the electorate had already voted. The author also says the average citizen is using a Web3 voting system without realizing it, and presents this as a sign of the technology's progress.

## 10. How to use New Media to revive existing work

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/How-to-use-New-Media-to-revive-existing-work?index=0x66ab29c4aaafa861a340945c6106b834884bb91b839ce4692d7f773eafa310d3646a24d6
- Source: https://metalabel.substack.com/p/how-to-use-new-media-to-revive-existing
- Submitted by misha, 4 upvotes, 4 comments

Metalabel reissued three of its past works as a New Media experiment, reframing older work with new context and forms instead of letting it stay on platforms it does not control. The three pieces are Introducing Metalabel, its first manifesto released with the unpublished essay that inspired it; After the Creator Economy, a sold-out zine co-published with co—matter and preserved as an editioned digital download; and The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet trilogy, which includes the private email sent to a small audience five years ago. The reissues are free to collect as handmade download packages with the original work and credits for early supporters, and collectors can optionally financially support the creators. The team used the Chrome extension GoFullPage to save webpages as images and PDFs, then uploaded them to Metalabel release pages with release notes.

## 11. You're not thinking enough about distribution

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Youre-not-thinking-enough-about-distribution?index=0x66ab321d7d7d191170d884b09f84d0034ad0a25578f2373baa8582cc3603a77901e755b2
- Source: https://www.figma.com/deck/txDCaIQ6SAqDgHfiaCmiNZ
- Submitted by macbudkowski.eth, 4 upvotes, 0 comments

## 12. Building a Sustainable Metaverse: Lessons from the Virtual Land Collapse

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Building-a-Sustainable-Metaverse-Lessons-from-the-Virtual-Land-Collapse?index=0x66aca98ae1b184dcd6f328624f6ef32f880f05f62086d8a9f88fc6a79239d52c4e451d7d
- Source: https://www.bankless.com/metaverse-lessons-virtual-land
- Submitted by misha, 4 upvotes, 1 comment

Polygonal Mind, the team behind VIPE and CryptoAvatars, announced it is closing because of tough market conditions, a development the article calls sad but not surprising given how hard the metaverse sector has been hit since crypto's post-2021 bear market. The author argues that metaverse land projects fell because of a "land speculation death spiral," in which artificial scarcity invites speculators to hoard parcels. Decentraland parcels are reported down 97.5% from peak floor prices, The Sandbox's down 97.4%, and Yuga Labs' Otherdeeds down 97.2%. The author suggests a land tax, as EVE Online used after its first real estate bubble, with proceeds funding a "Citizen's Dividend" for active users.

## 13. The on-chain demoscene is just getting started.

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/The-on-chain-demoscene-is-just-getting-started?index=0x66ab9a2c098eebef0b7f40469fb96a56576f9e490557485179e38d52aa68eb7cd21cbc87
- Source: https://medium.com/@tekkac/on-chain-abilities-own-your-nfts-0feee018ff71
- Submitted by tekkac.eth, 3 upvotes, 0 comments

The article argues that NFTs should store their metadata and assets fully on-chain, since off-chain servers can modify, shut down, or lose control of them. It says cost is not the main barrier, pointing instead to storage limits, VM compute limits, smart-contract expressivity, and a lack of tools and standards. It presents demoscene-style compression as a model for building on-chain art, and cites standards such as Metadata Updates, Dynamic Traits, and Redeemables, with OpenSea pushing Redeemables and Carbonable Labs working on a Starknet implementation.

## 14. Kiwi News referral program and submit to earn

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Kiwi-News-referral-program-and-submit-to-earn?index=0x66aa08bbdf5d364770c2e4ecb490a2027a51f0408797372310bb6b71284074fa3bf05156
- Source: https://news.kiwistand.com/referral
- Submitted by tim, 5 upvotes, 0 comments

## 15. The true Flippening – something different than expected

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/The-true-Flippening-something-different-than-expected?index=0x66acb98e270e16a9d57b9ffa844826af9bcfe0afde212228983144e43a1abdf8409fceb0
- Source: https://bitcoinblog.de/2024/08/01/the-real-flippening-something-different-than-expected
- Submitted by rvolz.eth, 5 upvotes, 0 comments

Monero (XMR) is argued to have overtaken Bitcoin in adoption on privacy-focused services, despite a market capitalization of just under three billion dollars and 29th place in cryptocurrency rankings. The article says Monero is likely already ahead of Bitcoin on the darknet, where some markets such as DrugHub and DarkMatter accept only Monero. On clearnet services, it cites Silent.Link, where Monero is used in half of all payments, OrangeFren, where it is the most requested coin at 31 percent versus 21 percent for Bitcoin, and ShopinBit, where customers use Monero in 75 percent of orders. The article suggests that exchange delistings may strengthen Monero's use as a payment method.

## 16. Startups and corporate culture

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Startups-and-corporate-culture?index=0x66a8e0955acf9a9da11237592cf13bf9ce44f83e198d7b530b049b6b8c82fc7780b5e77a
- Source: https://www.haardik.dev/writings/startups-and-corporate-culture
- Submitted by haardik.eth, 4 upvotes, 0 comments

## 17. Review: museums of the future, Dubai and Tokyo

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Review-museums-of-the-future-Dubai-and-Tokyo?index=0x66adb0b6c7020d8c64c2c67462d180748ae33b760a0e9ea3a3f8ef71995e5d6408f282d0
- Source: https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2024/08/03/museumfuture.html
- Submitted by macbudkowski.eth, 5 upvotes, 0 comments

The author compares two museums of the future: the Museum of the Future in Dubai, which imagines bold technological transformation such as a 2064 space elevator and genetic engineering that improves the biosphere, and the Miraikan in Tokyo, which emphasizes environmental crisis, public participation, and social technology like governance. The author concludes the two visions are complementary, and that the ideal museum would combine Dubai's boldness with the Miraikan's inviting spirit. The Dubai museum is described as consumerist and missing governance, while the Tokyo museum is described as inviting people to learn and take part in building the future.

## 18. Women earn about 15% more than men in crypto

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Women-earn-about-15percent-more-than-men-in-crypto?index=0x66a92bc65ff9b48a302bfdcd9177ddc035f9a8a11eb76c38dffb60b751a62f3100a63397
- Source: https://x.com/0xallyzach/status/1818316045016584699
- Submitted by tim, 3 upvotes, 0 comments

## 19. Why did he leave?

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Why-did-he-leave?index=0x66afb7ff1acda0872be2fa3d8297aca26b4032818cd45a26b24e150a6fc0ed159b040d86
- Source: https://artlu.xyz/why-did-he-leave-aug2024
- Submitted by macbudkowski.eth, 4 upvotes, 2 comments

## 20. [poll] What should the small denomination for ETH be?

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/poll-What-should-the-small-denomination-for-ETH-be?index=0x66a75db40f2b644175fb47edf0942fbcae020f51730c454c3f4f5e8a483c9d93e31166e0
- Source: https://x.com/moaicash/status/1817851040487608802
- Submitted by freeatnet.eth, 3 upvotes, 0 comments