The crypto space needs reform direly. For decades now, Hacker News has acted as a sort of regulatory organ for the elite decision makers in Silicon Valley. Tech culture is down stream of Hacker News, and so this means culture is defined there and flows into the main stream. Hacker News is tremendously important as collaborative and coordinative technology in the web2 space. Ask any web2 dev what’s going on today and they’ll highly likely quote a headline they read on HN today.

The reason Hacker News has persisted as this institution is because it isn’t subjected to the same growing pains as Reddit, Facebook, or Twitter. They haven’t had to optimize growth for the marginal user, they were able to *just* serve nerds!

Kiwi News wants to be like Hacker News, but for the developers, decision-makers and investors in the Ethereum space. We want to move away from atomizing the individual with personalized feeds. We want to create a shared perception and experience of what crypto is throughout the news cycle.

Kiwi News is the anti-thesis of Twiter, Reddit and Facebook: On Kiwi everyone reads the feed and everyone has to decide whether a link is worth someone else’s time (a user can decide to upvote a link). This moves getting attention from a game of identity and nepotism to a game of merit. You have a good link? You’ll likely get upvotes!

We are in the middle of growing our platform, it is still small, but our hope is that eventually we can influence Ethereum culture for the better, by not making them chase the next casino memecoin, but by thinking critically about how crypto can bring about a meaningful impact to society.