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Kiwi News

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kiwinews.xyz

Community-curated crypto media dapp & open source P2P protocol

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33 ballots

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.

Contribution links

    world

    4 minute pitch about what Kiwi News is and why we are building it

    world

    Kiwi News Main Site

    codeBracketSquare

    "Kiwi Pass" contract that determines who can upvote or submit new links

    codeBracketSquare

    Delegator2 contract to help delegating to an emphemeral frontend key for web2 UX

    github

    Kiwi News Protocol implementation

    world

    Docs how Kiwi News Protocol works under the hood (set reconciliation)

    world

    timdaub's talk on set reconciliation algorithm at Protocol Berg 2023 (audio=bad)

    github

    awesome-kiwinews ecosystem GitHub that lists all on-going projects

    github

    Delegator2 Key authority event log for Kiwi News Protocol

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.

Impact Metrics

  • # of upvotes stored on side p2p network
    4.7K
  • # of unique visitors
    5.3K
  • Nice Testimonials on Farcaster abt Kiwi
    12
  • # of monthly active curators
    80
  • # of NFT holders on Optimism
    230
  • Delegegations to improve web3 signing UX
    120
  • Monthly active readers (30-day active)
    1.2K
  • Independent project: Kiwi News frontend
    1
  • Independent project: Kiwi News Search
    1
  • Total revenue lags behind the rev goal
    14K
  • 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