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At Kiwi, we have been focused on building community-curated media. So far, we have 1,200+ monthly readers & 80+ monthly curators, and we plan to make it even easier to curate & meet people with shared interests.
So here’s what we did since the last update to make it happen:
Spotify playlists help us dive into a genre such as rock, pop, or hip hop. Our Kiwi lists are similar - they help you dive into specific subjects such as decentralization, crypto, art, etc.
Currently, we have 7 lists:
- The Nouniverse: curated by ccarella.eth
- Composable Culture: curated by frotograf.eh
- Proof of Art: curated by mishaderidder.eth
- Understanding Public Goods: curated by timdaub.eth
- Farcaster World: curated by macbudkowski.eth
- Dive into Protocols: curated by timdaub.eth
- Web3 Builders Podcasts: curated by macbudkowski.eth
If you have ideas for other lists, DM @macbudkowski or @timdaub on Telegram.
Kiwi community members get karma for each submission and upvote they receive. We used it to calculate their voting power on PropHouse so they could choose the most active community members. The voting has ended, and we paid out ETH to the winners.
It’s an upgrade since the last time we handpicked the grant recipients. Feel free to reach out to us if you'd like to contribute.
Some of you said you want our crypto links integrated with your daily habits, so our bots came to the digital spaces where you spend your time.
Bots' links:
Twitter bot - link
Farcaster bot - link
Upcoming: Lens & Telegram bots.
If you see someone curating good content, you can now read other stories they picked, see their bio, check their projects, and so on.
We do it by fetching ENS avatars & links, displaying karma, and mapping users' wallet address with their Farcaster accounts. You can also check all their submissions.
Just type in “news.kiwistand.com/ensname.eth”
There’s a new subpage that explains all the benefits of minting the KiwiPass & joining the Kiwi community.
You can check the KiwiPass page here - link.
The program is simple - if someone mints Kiwi via your referral, you’ll get 0.00222ETH thanks to ZORA protocol rewards.
You can learn more here - link.
We worked a lot on fine-tuning the algorithm so that the Main Feed displays the best links. One interesting mechanism is that when the feed is slow, links by people who historically got many upvotes per submission can more easily get into the Hot Feed.
If you click the staircase icon on the sidebar, you can learn about more advanced Kiwi features.
You can check this page here - link.
We created an iOS shortcut you can use to submit links to Kiwi easily.
Learn more about the shortcut here - link.
We fixed notifications so you can get this nice feeling when checking people who upvoted the stuff you found interesting.
You can download it by opening the website on your Android or iOS phone and clicking the “Install our app” button.
We fixed some protocol-level bugs and optimized the site. Plus, we introduced CloudFlare caching, so it should load faster.
Farcaster App Store - link
Optimism App Store - link
Coinbase App Store - link
The next meetup is in Istanbul at Devconnect. You can register here - link.
Tim presented Kiwi P2P tech at Protocol Berg, Mac spoke about onchain media at Dappcon’s Broadcast panel.
The next Tim's presentation is at ZuSocial at Devconnect. If you want to come, reach out to @timdaub on Telegram.
Mac asked Malte & Maria Paula from his previous project - Goerlinator - if he could distribute the remaining GoerliETH.
They agreed, so we distributed 10,000 GoerliETH all around the globe to teams from ETH Montreal, ETH Chicago, ETH Singapore, ETH Warsaw, ETH Accra, and ETH Safari.
Yash Bora wrote a longer piece about Kiwi. ThirdWeb included Kiwi in their post about Farcaster.
The Figma file is available here - link.
We added sections so it's easier to find things that you find interesting.
You can read the latest episode here - link.
This is something we did some time ago, but it's worth mentioning. We immortalized Kiwi meme by sharing the story at howtoeat.kiwi. We even got featured on Base Onchain Summer.
We got awarded the 3rd edition of the Purple Grants and the 1st edition of the Warpcast grants.
That's all for now. If you'd like to learn more about Kiwi or contribute (we are open source), visit our welcome page - link or DM @timdaub or @macbudkowski on Telegram.
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In the last few weeks we did a lot of cool things with @kiwi. From Lists, through Retro PGF funding, bots, better profiles, kiwipas page, referral program, better feed algo, easier onboarding and link sharing, more stable PWA & protocol + tons of other stuff. https://paragraph.xyz/@kiwi-updates/kiwi-update
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btw we changed the kiwipass price to 0.0069ETH to celebrate the bull run https://news.kiwistand.com/kiwipass