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before we start, two quick announcements:
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Plus, thanks to Lens for supporting us by buying a Kiwi ad to promote their holiday hackathon.
And thanks to our authors and curators who shared this week's links:
pedrovilela.eth, timdaub.eth, mishaderidder.eth, isabel.eth, macbudkowski.eth, rvolz.eth, miragenesi.eth, cerv1.eth, mozrt.eth, freeatnet.eth, simplifiedprivacy.eth, sileo.eth, naomiii.eth, papulous.eth, pfedprog.eth, lens/armog
Discussions
EFF shares what you should know when joining Bluesky (5 comments)
rm says that BTC is a relic of the past (4 comments)
Miles Jennings says that decentralization is why we fight for crypto (4 comments)
News
ENS picks Linea for the L2 Rollout
Zora shares the community retrogrant
Lens raises $31M
r/ethfinance and r/ethereum merge again
Deutsche Bank is building an L2
German watchdog orders Worldcoin to delete data collected illegally
Complicated nature of the Polymarket Israel bet
Essays, Posts & Talks
Anurag Arjun is very concerned about people who are “concerned about Ethereum”
Mario Laul describes the cryptopreneur’s dilemma
Stani shares his take on the Polygon bridge funds investment proposal
Daniel Fernandes criticizes Ethereum's reliance on centralized platforms
Identified, extracted permaweb data from JPG's culture & curation experiment
Archetype shares 10 categories of Crypto x AI they're watching in 2025
Daksh Gupta explains how to make LLMs shut up
Explanation of the EU Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) regulation
Matti writes about memecoins and the war for mindshare
What is Decentralized science (DeSci)
Tor recaps 2024 and shares the plans for 2025
POAP team looks back on 2024
Gnosis recaps 2024
Dashboards & reports
Ethereum staking 2024 report
Gas limit signaling report
Chain abstraction 2024 report
Flipside report on crypto users in 2024
Withdrawal fees on crypto exchanges
Historical corporate profit margin
Products
Launched: Base Wrapped 2024
Launched: Fluidkey bank transfers
Launched: Warpcast Rewards
Launched: Surf app by Flipboard
Launched: Buy Component
Found: DeFi Simulator
Found: Tmr.news
Update: Privy server wallets
For devs
EIP 7639: Prune calldata
Consequences of EIP-7623 for dapp builders
Tidbits of post-quantum ETH
Explanation of Merkle trees
Base engineering shares their experiences from scaling Base with Reth
Art
NFT: Perspectives. Exploring pluralism through on-chain composition
Kenny Schachter on why the art world is broken, and how technology can fix it
The Art of DIY Education
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