2 months of Kiwi in a nutshell

Some updates from the last two months of Kiwi. We said in our Octant application that we want to focus on three priorities: onchain ads driving growth hardening the protocol We ofc didn’t want to wait for the Octant grant to start working, so here are some updates on our progress…

Harden the protocol

Expected Outcome : This will make it easier to further decentralize our protocol and let our community run nodes. Deliverables : Fix bugs that currently make it hard for a newly joined node to sync the entire data set. We could also make the process of node running easier. Long-t…

Shipping numerous small product improvements

Expected Outcome: By increasing the number of users and our retention rate, we can serve our mission better and also generate more money via ads, and other opportunities. Deliverables: Implement a better design, improve the onboarding and pricing mechanism, signify more clearly h…

Market-test onchain ads

**Expected Outcome: ** Currently, we only make a few cents from the onchain advertisements. By setting up the user interface, we can generate real revenue from ads and become more financially sustainable. Deliverables: A user interface that lets publishers post ads on Kiwi. We wo…