# Top stories on Kiwi News, week 42 2024

Mon 14 to Sun 20 October 2024
Page: https://news.kiwistand.com/weekly/2024-W42

The 20 top stories on Kiwi News from Mon 14 to Sun 20 October 2024, ranked by upvotes, comments and clicks, with 48 comments in total. Most-shared sources: x.com.

Summaries are AI summaries of the linked article.

## 1. EQL is being designed to replace SQL for Ethereum - better, faster, stronger 

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/EQL-is-being-designed-to-replace-SQL-for-Ethereum-better-faster-stronger?index=0x670ee47bab16dab0c436686913ceeeb3f4476bcbafd61ab1bc4bd0c11ab53cda29aa2951
- Source: https://www.eql.sh
- Submitted by 0x25AE...42a6, 10 upvotes, 9 comments

## 2. What happened to our decentralized private new internet?

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/What-happened-to-our-decentralized-private-new-internet?index=0x670fafa69ab85c8e42cca558085554c9f754cecbb507fa1a1aa05bc2cb8b8ba8bd6081a7
- Source: https://ethresear.ch/t/what-happened-to-our-decentralized-private-new-internet/20657
- Submitted by pedrovilela.eth, 8 upvotes, 1 comment

The article, co-authored by Peyman Momeni (Fairblock), Amit Chaudhary (Labyrinth) and Muhammad Yusuf (Delphi Digital), argues that Web3 has so far failed to deliver practical private applications, and that balancing onchain confidentiality with compliance requires decentralized selective disclosure. It says blockchain utility after 16 years is mostly limited to meme coins and infrastructure projects, and that businesses cannot yet share payroll or confidential data onchain. It proposes threshold-network designs in which Revokers flag transactions and Guardians vote on de-anonymization requests, with each request publicly verifiable. The authors say existing approaches such as sanction lists, KYC and Chainalysis-style tools are each incomplete on their own.

## 3. Possible futures of the Ethereum protocol, part 1: The Merge

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Possible-futures-of-the-Ethereum-protocol-part-1-The-Merge?index=0x670cbe1933a4c5f35f3bdaa243d928d3c8017eff7d558681281f9921aa5fab7fff67b6da
- Source: https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2024/10/14/futures1.html
- Submitted by misha, 9 upvotes, 3 comments

Ethereum's proof of stake has run stably for almost two years, but its technical design still has areas to improve, chiefly single-slot finality and a lower staking minimum. Finalizing a block currently takes 2-3 epochs (about 15 minutes), and staking requires 32 ETH, while the stated goals are one-slot finality and a 1 ETH minimum without losing economic finality. The leading options are brute-force signature aggregation handling over 1 million signatures in 5-10 seconds, Orbit committees, and two-tiered staking, with Orbit accepting a cost of attack of about $2.5 billion instead of $25 billion.

## 4. Wayback Machine running strong

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Wayback-Machine-running-strong?index=0x671007712c9a4e2a84d3bb6ee13ff4c66f62fb5ed7f12785dff61bec5aad76934f4b4ab2
- Source: https://mastodon.archive.org/@internetarchive/113313610849456678
- Submitted by misha, 6 upvotes, 7 comments

## 5. A chat with Domer, the #1 trader on Polymarket

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/A-chat-with-Domer-the-1-trader-on-Polymarket?index=0x6710cf6a41218e6c28dcb257829cc1afe34acfd1411215bf442c66b75f482e7dbca7b7cb
- Source: https://www.onchaintimes.com/a-chat-with-domer-the-1-trader-on-polymarket
- Submitted by macbudkowski.eth, 8 upvotes, 0 comments

Domer, also known as JustKen on the Polymarket leaderboard, is the platform's top all-time trader by volume and profit, with more than 5,000 markets traded and nearly $300m in total volume. He says he moved from online poker and stock trading into prediction markets because they offer the best way he has found to bet on an edge. He describes most of his trades as manual, warns that high liquidity can lead traders to overreach, and expects the US presidential election to be by far Polymarket's largest market.

## 6. Stripe in talks to acquire Bridge for $1 billion

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Stripe-in-talks-to-acquire-Bridge-for-dollar1-billion?index=0x67154bf5edb93612087f3e88c31185c5722d3e98acee4095d8f9b9b53474e919c4a0bfdf
- Source: https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/17/stripe-in-talks-to-acquire-bridge-for-1-billion
- Submitted by ayomide.eth, 7 upvotes, 1 comment

Stripe is reportedly in advanced talks to acquire stablecoin platform Bridge for $1 billion, according to Forbes, though nothing has been finalized. Bridge, co-founded by Coinbase alumni Zach Abrams and Sean Yu, offers an API that helps companies accept stablecoins and raised $58 million from investors including Index Ventures and Sequoia Capital, according to PitchBook. The article says the deal would be a large jump from Bridge's $200 million valuation and would be Stripe's largest acquisition to date. It also notes that Stripe has prioritized crypto, enabling crypto purchases in the EU in July and announcing a Pay with Crypto feature earlier this month that lets merchants accept stablecoins.

## 7. Mac Budkowski on GM Farcaster

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Mac-Budkowski-on-GM-Farcaster?index=0x67103635d95c37865e55a411ccdf776de47c53c05ef68d0839fd01db39113b25ccf36060
- Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=pzbQBV4BPkw
- Submitted by tim, 7 upvotes, 7 comments

## 8. Support Kiwi in the Octant allocation round

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Support-Kiwi-in-the-Octant-allocation-round?index=0x67111f8cd69f352e190dd2c069427dced8507d45933d0dec7952e70d323f53d7f2f27441
- Source: https://x.com/KiwiNewsHQ/status/1846921380811403561
- Submitted by macbudkowski.eth, 10 upvotes, 0 comments

## 9. Builder Energy Dashboard

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Builder-Energy-Dashboard?index=0x67102a4bab14e5284e4bc0a95381b96ce94a5291e7b4bd2143b5cd746ba368208505f413
- Source: https://builderenergy.a16zcrypto.com
- Submitted by tim, 6 upvotes, 2 comments

## 10. The Stanford Blockchain Reading List

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/The-Stanford-Blockchain-Reading-List?index=0x670df3c3efb8c67719f60ede25d132cffae67b18b80609a0cbc48e0c299119d8e110f582
- Source: https://blockchain.stanford.edu/crypto101
- Submitted by zinkk.eth, 6 upvotes, 0 comments

A reading list for students new to blockchain, built mainly from easy-to-read posts published by Stanford Blockchain on the Stanford Blockchain Review and organized into modules with guiding questions about what the space is building. Module 1 covers why crypto and Web3 exist, using readings such as "The Ideology of Web3" by Jay Yu and an interview with Chris Dixon on Read Write Own. Module 4 covers blockchain infrastructure through projects including Arbitrum Stylus, Caldera, EigenLayer and zero-knowledge proofs, and Module 5 looks at the industry's state in September 2024, including Electric Capital's 2024 crypto insights.

## 11. Pluralistic: You should be using an RSS reader

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Pluralistic-You-should-be-using-an-RSS-reader?index=0x6714ed65b4b5f017b965be840e007144a8df313d4ed1127c8535f5fa2a12d2d8ef93b45d
- Source: https://pluralistic.net/2024/10/16/keep-it-really-simple-stupid
- Submitted by tim, 5 upvotes, 5 comments

Cory Doctorow argues that the most effective individual step against enshittification is switching to an RSS reader, since it bypasses algorithms, ads and tracking while letting readers follow nearly any website, newsletter or social account. He says RSS feeds exist for news sites like Wired, Substacks, Mastodon, Bluesky and Hacker News, and that a reader can export feeds as an OPML file and move them to another app in one click. He adds that widespread RSS use would reduce publishers' dependence on platforms, though he also says a movement is still needed to solve the broader problems.

## 12. Russian Farcaster: How Bastyon Works (as Russia bans Discord)

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Russian-Farcaster-How-Bastyon-Works-as-Russia-bans-Discord?index=0x67114a68c1410d74ccf81cdc2ae24def5f67b40249ba7fd8c11ac61e9c05ad5d9b39b661
- Source: https://simplifiedprivacy.com/bastyon-works/how.html
- Submitted by simplifiedprivacy.eth, 6 upvotes, 0 comments

Bastyon is a decentralized social media protocol in which posts are blockchain transactions while text, images and video are stored off-chain, according to an interview with lead developer Daniel Satchkov conducted by Simplified Privacy. Every node stores all post data, so any node a user connects to is interchangeable, which the article says is critical for reaching the network across a firewall. Bastyon has no official foundation or development funds, and Satchkov said "everyone chips in." The article also reports a total Pkoin supply of 24 million 375 thousand and a market cap of over 8 million USD at the time of writing.

## 13. World Chain is now open to every human

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/World-Chain-is-now-open-to-every-human?index=0x671182aa7061b9aa03452d6aa9248af85357558478ce04dcb9e148a0b5f561065d5e7c3d
- Source: https://world.org/blog/announcements/world-chain-now-open-every-human
- Submitted by ayomide.eth, 5 upvotes, 0 comments

World Chain, a blockchain designed to benefit verified humans first, went live on October 17, with all 15 million World ID holders and World App users migrating or in the process of migrating to it. Optimism, Alchemy, Uniswap, Safe, Dune and Etherscan are named as launch partners, and World ID holders receive free transactions via World App on Day 1. The World Foundation also says World Chain will start by prioritizing anonymous human verification and financial access, with on and offramps in over 150 countries. The article notes it is over 12 months old and may be outdated.

## 14. Uniswap v4 and Onchain Investment Banking

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Uniswap-v4-and-Onchain-Investment-Banking?index=0x670e9a58a51dcb94e01bf8d18c8f690791944daae97586bf952541158f95468b77923b55
- Source: https://research.auditless.com/p/al-80-uniswap-v4-and-onchain-investment
- Submitted by auditless.eth, 5 upvotes, 0 comments

Uniswap v4 hooks could let launchpads and token issuers build onchain issuance and liquidity mechanisms similar to investment bank services, according to the article. It says launchpads are software abstractions of investment bank issuance services, providing token contracts, liquidity mechanics such as bonding curves, and discoverability. It cites Doppler, a dutch-auction liquidity bootstrapping hook built by Whetstone Research, and says a v4 KYC hook could restrict swapping of RWAs like BUIDL and USDY to whitelisted individuals. It also gives Pump.fun's graduation model, under which tokens move to Raydium at a $69,000 market cap, and notes that only 1.4% of tokens on pump.fun graduate.

## 15. ‼️ @eigenlayer X account has been compromised

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/eigenlayer-X-account-has-been-compromised?index=0x67123bb52655b6262c56fcba0fd1e6523f30977dbfa4d642f107121f1d1bda94e6aed531
- Source: https://x.com/harpieio/status/1847223011205873819?s=46
- Submitted by misha, 6 upvotes, 1 comment

## 16. How to (and why) advertise on Kiwi

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/How-to-and-why-advertise-on-Kiwi?index=0x670d0c4dac5fd37a03101a13bfd3bdd78fe3c1f911d254f5e45b8d55a8b510af78c65a28
- Source: https://kiwistand.github.io/kiwi-docs/docs/community/ad
- Submitted by macbudkowski.eth, 6 upvotes, 0 comments

## 17. 𝗔𝗡𝗖𝗜𝗘𝗡𝗧 𝟮𝟬𝟬𝟵 𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗟𝗘 𝗡𝗢𝗪 𝗦𝗢𝗟𝗗 $𝟱.𝟰𝟳𝗠 𝗕𝗧𝗖

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/dollar?index=0x670ed946ae1c9657a24ddd897bb1c2cbf4178c12ba9ebf6d90a384f3da505149b682d407
- Source: https://x.com/ArkhamIntel/status/1845872033391169923
- Submitted by misha, 4 upvotes, 4 comments

## 18. Announcing: Gitcoin Grants 22

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Announcing-Gitcoin-Grants-22?index=0x6710e77b95556add322ec2cfaf2eaa068a899aab6a9e853e66b3ad8a1df34c5ebd30deec
- Source: https://www.gitcoin.co/blog/announcing-gitcoin-grants-22
- Submitted by tim, 6 upvotes, 0 comments

## 19. dGEN1 - A physical device (and airdrop magnet) for Ethereum

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/dGEN1-A-physical-device-and-airdrop-magnet-for-Ethereum?index=0x671214fa6cbfd1442e68b5be72fce6c16701a60545714bb81e286ca44f993edf8468edfc
- Source: https://paragraph.xyz/@tpan/338-dgen1-a-physical-device-and-airdrop-magnet-for-ethereum-1
- Submitted by macbudkowski.eth, 6 upvotes, 7 comments

The ethOS team introduced the dGEN1, a physical Ethereum-focused device built by Freedom Factory, priced at 0.2 ETH (about $520) with payment also accepted in $DEGEN and by credit card. The article says the device includes a system-level wallet and that buyers can use a referral code for a 5% discount, while referrers earn 5%. Several memecoin communities joined the referral program with custom codes. The author links this to airdrop incentives seen with the Solana Saga, Solana Seeker, and other onchain devices, noting that preorder rewards are promoted explicitly and that the referral window runs until December 31st.

## 20. Are we finally ready for a gas limit increase?

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Are-we-finally-ready-for-a-gas-limit-increase?index=0x670ccc50142793c251a3c1666d4607096c5dff0c4f8024071268c44a5d0e90783d4ed2f8
- Source: https://erigon.tech/are-we-finally-ready-for-a-gas-limit-increase
- Submitted by 0x4DD0...85D9, 4 upvotes, 1 comment