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Kiwi News Recap #80: 20/01/25 - 26/01/25

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before we start:

1) We launched Hyde Park-like daily discussion threads. So if you want to chat with our community, you're free to join us! You can find today's thread here.

2) Friendly reminder about our new writing contest, "Farcaster 2026". We organize it together with Purple, and it has a 2 ETH prize pool. You can read more here, and check the submissions in our app (just click on the Farcaster contest banner).

As always, thanks to our authors and curators who shared this week's top links:
auditless.eth, mishaderidder.eth, pedrovilela.eth, timdaub.eth, albi.eth, rvolz.eth, macbudkowski.eth, naomiii.eth, bumblefudge.eth, danielmcglynn.eth, ferran.eth, alec.eth

Discussions

ECB pitches digital euro as response to Trump's crypto push (10 comments)

Daily discussion thread: 22/01/25 (16 comments)

Daily discussion thread: 23/01/25 (13 comments)

Daily discussion thread: 24/01/25 (9 comments)

Daily discussion thread: 27/01/25 (6 comments)

News

Ross Ulbricht is free

District Court officially ordered to reverse sanctions against Tornado Cash

Co-founder of Ledger freed after kidnapping

David Sacks comments on Crypto Executive Order

Telegram goes exclusive with TON

70% of Nature poll respondents use BlueSky

Thorchain got halted

Ethereumorg team shares their plans to accelerate

Essays, Posts & Talks

Happy admits we got to the point where he doesn't know what's going to happen to crypto

Justin Drake describes Native rollups

Nakamotards share their Manifesto

Vitalik describes scaling Ethereum L1 and L2s in 2025 and beyond

Nixo explains how Ethereum core upgrades work

Archived emails of Satoshi Nakamoto to some Cypherpunks

Interview from 2023 with Aya Miyaguchi

Vitalik comments on risks of political coins

Wordgrammer explains how DeepSeek trained its model

Jason Cohen writes about the (un?)importance of design

Joanna Bryson comments on taxing the robots

Dashboards & reports

Dataset: Warpcast spam accounts

Dataset: All Devcon talks ranked by views

Etherscan filter: Large stablecoin transfers

Etherscan filter: USDC printing

Dashboards: Dotpics

Duna Bylaws

Products

Launch: ETHStrategy - fully onchain Microstrategy for Ethereum

Launch: Interested.fyi Salary Tool

Found: Wikenigma - an Encyclopedia of Unknowns

Found: SVRF

For devs

Summary of the Pectra hardfork

0-click deanonymization attack targeting Signal, Discord and others

EF's R&D teams

Art

The story behind Err Hold by Botto


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