[{"name":"json","type":"string","signature":"string json","value":{"name":"json","type":"string","value":"{\"text\":\"Some updates from Kiwi from the last 1.5 months.\\n\\nWe said in our Octant application that we want to focus on three priorities:\\n1) onchain ads\\n2) driving growth\\n3) hardening the protocol\\n\\n\\nWe ofc didn't want to wait for the Octant grant to start working, so here are some updates on our progress:\\n\\n### 1) Onchain ads\\n\\n**a. onchain ad UI**\\n\\nWe built the first prototype of the [ad's UI](https://news.kiwistand.com/submit) *(you can see it by clicking \\\"Submit story as an ad\\\")*.\\n\\n**b. updated ad's contract**\\n\\nWe updated the [ad's contract](https://github.com/attestate/ad/commit/e9f699e6c03dd71363fe93c0bb89d2043f1d9390#diff-b335630551682c19a781afebcf4d07bf978fb1f8ac04c6bf87428ed5106870f5R30) based on our users' feedback.\\n\\n### 2) Driving growth\\n\\n**a. Writing contest**\\n\\nWe organized a month-long writing contest with Lens called \\\"Pluralistic Future of L2s\\\". \\n\\nThe contest got a [lot of attention](https://x.com/KiwiNewsHQ/status/1828834946204701180/photo/1), and we even got a [prompt from Vitalik](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1828843846496813109).\\n\\nWe received 28 submissions from a diverse group of authors, including the co-inventor of the ERC20 standard, co-founder of Celo, and Ethereum Foundation researcher. \\n\\nAnd the writers' work got a lot of eyeballs. We calculated with t2 that people spent over 20 hours reading the submissions, and some contest essays have been read by [Vitalik](https://twitter.com/VitalikButerin/status/1838809754002690403), [Stani Kulechov](https://x.com/StaniKulechov/status/1838886110509883876), and [Alex Glukhovsky](https://x.com/gluk64/status/1838930538993680610). \\n\\nThe contest was also successful from the growth POV - since the beginning it, we got [54 new paying users](https://optimistic.etherscan.io/token/0x66747bdc903d17c586fa09ee5d6b54cc85bbea45). \\n\\nIf you want to dig in, you can read some of my [favorite contest ideas here](https://x.com/MacBudkowski/status/1838607991995596839). We are also going to organize another writing contest with Nouns.\\n\\n**b. Improving the product**\\n\\nWe added images [to the feed](https://news.kiwistand.com/).\\n\\nFixed [notifications bugs](https://github.com/attestate/kiwistand/commit/ea45787e271514750fdb5abe5fa6972b1f155edd).\\n\\nAnd started showing the number of clicks for all links.\\n\\nWe also started prompting Base & Arbitrum users to bridge to OP to get a Kiwi Pass.\\n\\n**c. Promotion**\\n\\nWe integrated [Farcaster Frames](https://warpcast.com/casslineth/0x64904cd8).\\n\\nKiwi got featured [among Warpcast apps](https://warpcast.com/macbudkowski/0xadb4dbb4).\\n\\nWe also improved referrals so that when you invite a friend, they get a % off, and you get a bit of ETH.\\n\\nWe also got a [new version of the Kiwi Dune dashboard](https://dune.com/rvolz/kiwi-news), maintained by our contributor - rvolz.eth.\\n\\n### 3) Protocol hardening\\n\\nIn terms of protocol hardening, we were primarily focused on debugging the protocol code with rvolz.eth, who runs a node.\\n\\nThere were many commits related to that challenge, and some of them took a lot of investigation even though the commits [were short](https://github.com/attestate/kiwistand/commit/7b5eef297e5499c59a9b860502ee2e765809cfc4).\\n\\n***\\n\\n\\nAll in all, we had a very productive 1.5 months and did a lot to move forward.\",\"title\":\"Our updates until the October 3rd\",\"proofOfWork\":\"\",\"type\":\"grant-update\"}"}}]