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Kiwi News

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Community-curated crypto media dapp & open source P2P protocol

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Contribution

Kiwi helps crypto builders find the best content without social media noise. Our community consumes hundreds of sources a month to handpick and upvote top content for crypto founders & developers. From tweets, through essays, up to Dune dashboards and GitHub repos. We a use P2P architecture - similar to Farcaster - so that most heavy data is stored offchain and only the most important elements, such as delegations & NFTs are stored onchain. The architecture promotes credible neutrality as it lets users run p2p nodes or clients with their own UI & moderation rules, such as kiwinews.lol run by our contributor, freeatnet or Kiwi News Search by matallo. We are 100% Open Source. Our R&D on scaling ETH via the P2P protocol and OP key delegation can be reused by others.

Impact

UX: We separate signals from noise. We are a trusted news source for builders, hence, we‘re strengthening the ecosystem. We had 5300+ unique visitors. We have around 80 monthly curators and 1,200 monthly readers. OP Stack: Our p2p protocol helps scale ETH. We use NFTs to authorize who can upvote/submit. We implement identity, i.e., FC and ENS. We store 4700 EIP-712 upvotes on our “side p2p network," to minimize onchain storage. We’ve delegated 123 keys to improve UX. We help to scale OP. DX: 4 people (including us) have been shipping on Kiwi since April: Kiwi Search, kiwinews.lol and us. Delegator2 is a web3 UX breakthrough. We’ve co-organized DeSo meetups in Denver, Paris & Berlin. We gave talks at Protocol Berg, and Broadcast Summit. We’re growing DeSo on OP.

Funding sources

Revenue
NFT sales
5,119.85 USD
Other
PurpleDAO Retro Active Public Goods funding (2x winner)
3,000.00 USD
Other
Impact Gift from Ethereum Foundation employee
2,000.00 USD
Other
Gitcoin Grants Round 18
1,197.30 USD
Other
Warpcast Ecosystem Grant
1,500.00 USD
Other
VC funding: NONE! We are 100% bootstrapped and wanna stay that way
0.00 USD