Top crypto stories of week 33, 2024
Mon 12 to Sun 18 August 2024
The 20 top stories on Kiwi News from Mon 12 to Sun 18 August 2024, ranked by upvotes, comments and clicks, with 43 comments in total. Most-shared sources: x.com.
Text under a title is an AI summary of the linked article.
- This DAO is dark and can’t be seen onchain (x.com)
DarkFi announces what it calls the world's first fully anonymous on-chain DAO with token-weighted voting, in which the DAO, its treasury, members, proposals and votes cannot be seen on-chain. The post argues that DAOs should be anonymous so that groups can resist authoritarian regimes, citing secret police and the risk of arrest and torture. It also criticizes the tech industry's reliance on surveillance and advertising, quoting Martin Thomson of Mozilla, and says anonymous tooling for tasks and documents is the next step.
- What is the point of web3 again? (untitled.exchange)
- Scope — block explorer for builders (scope.sh)
- Silly little test (x.com)
- anytype — the everything app (anytype.io)
- Pump.fun founders DMed 3000+ ppl on Twitter (x.com)
- Polymarket investment memo (August 2020) (x.com)
- NFT Storage: Comparing IPFS, Filecoin, and Arweave (bankless.com)
- Fediverse vs. Farcaster discussion (warpcast.com)
- Wedge is the Founder's Edge (zeeprime.capital)
- Trump interview highlights (x.com)
- ServerFi: A New Symbiotic Relationship Between Games and Players (osf.io)
- Kiwi News Features Ideas (x.com)
- Coinbase Teases 'cbBTC': a Wrapped Bitcoin Alternative on Base (unchainedcrypto.com)
Coinbase has teased a new wrapped bitcoin token called cbBTC for its layer 2 network Base, which would compete with Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC). Base creator Jesse Pollak said on X, "we're going to build a massive bitcoin economy on base," which the article describes as all but confirming the plan. The article says cbBTC could offer lower fees to mint and redeem tokens and draw users who trust the Coinbase brand. The timing follows controversy over WBTC custodian BitGo's plans to move custody to Hong Kong and Singapore, which has prompted MakerDAO and Aave to discuss next steps.
- Net: a free decentralized onchain messaging protocol (github.com)
- The Big DAO Fail Expose (daoleadership.com)
- ZuGarden (zu.garden)
- The Unraveling of a Crypto Dream (nytimes.com)
- Phantom wallet is closed source (x.com)
- The Bullish Case for Ethereum (ignasdefi.com)