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before we start:
1) Want to chat with our community? Check our today's discussion 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:
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Discussions
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News
DeepSeek database has been exposed
Jeromy Powell says that "Banks are perfectly able to serve crypto customers"
White House offers 2 million federal employees financial incentives to quit
New FDIC leadership isn't convinced Operation Chokepoint 2.0 exists
Spindl is joining Coinbase
Berlin Blockchain Week shared its 2025 calendar
Protocol Berg calls for participation
ai16z is rebranding as ElizaOS after request from a16z
Paradigm will be donating $1.25M to help fund Roman Storm’s legal defense
Essays, Posts & Talks
Punk 6529 shares his DeepSeek Thesis
How OnlyFans took over the world
Chris Carella talks about networks owned by their participants
Andre Cronje explains why did he quit in 2022
Vitalik shares his take on Beam Chain
Rahul writes about the fallacy of Vitamins vs. Painkillers in product
Peteris Erins explains why you suck at ChatGPT but agents don't
Yash Bora says that DeepSeek is not a geopolitical red flag but an open source green flag
Pichi describes the unwritten rule of Warpcast: Avoiding spam labels
Interview with a cybercrime detective about doxxing through VPNs
Venice shares their privacy architecture
Danica Swanson asks who’s solving the need to make a living?
Jevons paradox
Jaack shares where to Read-It Later?
Smart Bear describes the startup Drake Equation
Dashboards & reports
Dashboard: AAVE Liquidations
Dashboard: Ethproofs
Dashboard: RatioGang
Report: Ethereum Energy Consumption
Report: Warpcast Q4 2024 Grants
Products
Launch: Uniswap v4
Launch: ETHStrategy, fully onchain Microstrategy for Ethereum
Launch: DeepSeek R1 Overthinker
Launch: interested.fyi quests
Found: Corca, collaborative math editor
For devs
Wordgrammer explains how DeepSeek trained its model
kustrun describes blob aggregation
Octant explains how GLM-locking mechanism works
List of Uniswap V4 Hooks Projects
Starknet's Open Source Privacy Pools
Conor explains what's Quantum Computing
ETHGlobal runs an Agentic Ethereum hackathon
EF is looking for Staff Software Engineer
Art
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