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and here are the top links of the last week:

News

SEC Enforcement Director Steps Down
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DEGEN is going to get listed at Coinbase
submitted by macbudkowski.eth

Gnosis announces a new brand identity
submitted by timdaub.eth

Privy announces a new brand identity
submitted by naomiii.eth | 1 comment

Optimism looks for guest voters
submitted by macbudkowski.eth

Octant x Gitcoin QF Round Results
submitted by macbudkowski.eth | 1 comment

Facebook cannot use all the personal data obtained for purposes of targeted ads
submitted by mishaderidder.eth | 2 comments

Results of the "Pluralistic Future of L2s" writing contest
submitted by macbudkowski.eth

Essays & Talks

Polynya does an AMA
submitted by mishaderidder.eth

0xgoku writes about Memecoin super cycle
submitted by naomiii.eth | 4 comments

hellno shares a recap of 2024 Vitalik's posts
submitted by mishaderidder.eth | 1 comment

L2Beat shares their governance review
submitted by kaereste.eth

Qiao Liang explains why do crypto protocols need incentives?
submitted by qiaoliang.eth

Peteris Erins analyzes Solana staking protocol and looks for ideas for Ethereum
submitted by auditless.eth | 3 comments

dwr explains why they don't users request to join a channel
submitted by mishaderidder.eth | 2 comments

Pillarbear analyzes TON and argues that it's too big to ignore
submitted by timdaub.eth | 3 comments

Anna Pinol introduces the concept of a Software with a Soul
submitted by macbudkowski.eth | 1 comment

Mac Budkowski shares a review of "Vitalik: An Ethereum Story”
submitted by macbudkowski.eth | 2 comments

Carlos Beltran explains the next steps of expanding the Bonsai token network
submitted by mishaderidder.eth

OP team explains the Retro Funding 5 guest voter selection algorithm
submitted by lens/pfedprog | 1 comment

rm shares his thoughts on world-building
submitted by rvolz.eth

Lawrence shares a discourse of new-age crypto cults
submitted by macbudkowski.eth

Connor Keenan shares his memecoin take
submitted by gokhan.eth | 1 comment

Vannguyen explains the concept of "doing by not doing"
submitted by mishaderidder.eth | 1 comment

Fred Wilson explains loss ratios In early stage VC (2013)
submitted by timdaub.eth | 3 comments

Dashboards & Reports

Toni Wahrstätter reports on solo staking, local block building and blobs
submitted by macbudkowski.eth

Products

Review: Cerv1 shares his review of rotki
submitted by cerv1.eth | 2 comments

Launch: Paragraph Mini App on Farcaster
submitted by mishaderidder.eth | 5 comments

Found: WMP is exploring apps on the new Shape L2
submitted by rvolz.eth | 8 comments

Update: Launchcaster joins Orange DAO
submitted by macbudkowski.eth | 1 comment

Update: New version of Warpcast Channels
submitted by mishaderidder.eth | 4 comments

For devs

Tim Daub proposes a design to reduce the power of the pivotal voter
submitted by timdaub.eth

Everything Theory: A Protocol of Everything in Object Tokens
submitted by brice3.eth | 2 comments

Messari's zkSync comprehensive overview
submitted by pedrovilela.eth

Events

Pavel Paramonov shares a Devcon Bangkok Guide
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Luke Cassady-Dorion shares their Hitchhiker's Guide to Bangkok
submitted by timdaub.eth

Circles' 4th birthday party
submitted by dirtynode.eth

New to Web3? Start Here @ Devcon
submitted by ornellaweb3.eth | 1 comment

Art

Art: SHAPE // 0004 by SHL0MS
submitted by mishaderidder.eth | 1 comment

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