Kiwi News is run as a very strongly principled organization. We have no legal entity and we’ve never sold equity for venture capital. In blog posts and on social media, we have marketed the project as having to serve, first and foremost, our users (those who mint our NFT), and not venture capital investors, as this would make us serve them, not our users.

Kiwi News is run on the same algorithm as Farcaster. This means anyone can download our entire database and run a fork of the website. The entire code base of Kiwi News, EVERYTHING, is open source and licensed under AGPL or GPL.

We’ve continuously told our community that we want to bootstrap an independent social media, and, that we want a credible neutral result. Hence, if we were to pivot away from these principles it would be possible for the community to self organize and fork the project. This balance of power helps us to stay aligned and serve our community as a public good over chasing venture capital returns.

Our threshold (minimum amount of funds to complete the feature and deliver value) is $2,000.