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before we start:

from today up until the 10th of February you can vote on the winners of the Farcaster 2026 writing contest. You can read all submissions by clicking the top bar here.

As always, thanks to our authors and curators who shared this week's top links & Farcaster 2026 contest submissions:

rvolz.eth, mishaderidder.eth, timdaub.eth, freeatnet.eth, macbudkowski.eth, ayomide.eth, dawufi.eth, albi.eth, , revmiller.eth, ferran.eth, tombeck.eth, jacquec.eth, shamanov.eth, auditless.eth, alec.eth, rileybeans.eth, zinkk.eth, jeeltcraft.eth, sgtslaughtermelon.eth, 0xbasil.eth, pi-chi.eth, simplifiedprivacy.eth, jakobih.eth, pfedprog.eth, kenanie.eth, ethireland.eth, jaack.eth, pedrovilela.eth, thoughtcrimeboss.eth, richardmba.eth, danielmcglynn.eth, 0xabundance.eth & bradq.eth

Discussions

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News

Alexey Pertsey leaves prison on supervised release

SEC starts a new crypto chapter

super is joining warpcast

Kraken to delist USDT and 4 other stablecoins in Europe

OP Dev Tooling retro funding round is open

EF launches Pectra Proactive Grant Round

Klarna to adopt crypto

Dappcon has announced its 2025 edition dates and tracks

Essays, Posts & Talks

Mac Budkowski writes about escaping the Memeplex

Austin Griffith asks why using Sepolia when you can deploy on L2s instead

Ferran describes the Minotaur paradox

Wyatt Benno says that if a 'ZK'-prover network asks for your data. don’t give it to them.

Michael Iwy shares the prediction markets reading list

Vitalik says he doesn't feel good at all hearing these things

Tim and Mac come to Vibe Check podcast

Michel Bauwens write about the AI and the Advent of the Age of the Brahmin Workers

Mac's talk at DEGENNIVERSARY

EIC04 Winter '25

Simplified Privacy explains why every web browser is flawed, even Tor

Samuel Hierholzer describes 3 tools for 2025

ZachXBT explains how Coinbase users lose $300M+ per year to scams

Peteris Erins says that Venice.ai just gave your AI Agent unlimited compute

Varun on a relationship between Farcaster and ENS

Wesley says that "Wallets don't need social features"

Cointelegraph explains how Ethereum L2s will be interoperable within months

RetroPGF Community shares their take on Impact Attestations

Dashboards & reports

Report: Protocol Guild 2024

Structured version of the MiCA Regulation

Products

Launch: ZKP2P V2

Launch: DarkFi App

Launch: Open source song by 3LAU

Launch: Multi-chain buy now, pay later

Launch: Walletbeat beta

Launch: Commit — onchain accountability protocol

Launch: Verifiable Agents on EigenLayer

Found: Zapier Ethereum transaction automations

For devs

Probability Density Function library In Solidity

New staking features in Pectra

Delayed execution and skipped transactions

Gigagas Rollups

PeerDAS from scratch

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