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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
and if you'd like to learn more about Kiwi, you can dig in here.