Dear crypto writers,

Our last contest with Lens turned out great, and we come back with the second edition!

As last time, it will be organized by:
- Kiwi, an app curating top content about crypto tech, products & culture
- t2, an app for writers to find, build, and grow their community,
- Lens, a decentralized protocol for building social applications.

The writers will be able to win 1,200 in USDC prizes and receive distribution from the Kiwi, t2 & Lens communities.

To participate, writers just need to submit their posts to the t2 and Kiwi apps (more on this below)

How does it work

The contest starts on the 2nd of September and ends on the 20th of September.

The contest is called “Pluralistic Future of L2s” and is inspired by Vitalik’s essay: Layer 2s as cultural extensions of Ethereum.

Here’s how you can take part in it:

1) Write a post related to the main thoughts from Vitalik’s essay about L2s.

The prompts for the track are:

  • What most people should understand about L2s?
  • Are L2s a part of Ethereum?
  • What are the biggest differences between the existing L2 cultures?
  • What risks do you think that having a proliferation of L2s can bring?
  • What benefits could purpose-built L2s provide?
  • What fresh or even crazy ideas should L2s explore?
  • What governance experiments could L2s perform?
  • What apps should we see on different L2s?

And a special Vitalik's prompt:

  • What are specific things that L2s can do to make their relationship between each other and with L1 more collaborative, and maximize positive sum games?

You can choose one or more than one of these prompts to write your essay exploring this subject.

2) Add a line about your post taking part in the contest.

Link to this contest announcement with the words: “This post is taking part in the Lens x Kiwi Writing Contest” at the beginning of your post.

3) Share your post in the Kiwi t2 territory.

You just need to connect your wallet, and you are good to go.

You are free to repost your essay on platforms such as Paragraph, Mirror, Substack, X, Warpcast, Zora, private websites, and so on. We’d just ask you to add a line “as it originally appeared on t2 (link to the original post)”

4) Submit your t2 post to Kiwi.

To submit links to Kiwi, you need to get a Kiwipass first. If you have any questions, DM Mac on Telegram.

5) There will be four winners of the contest.

The prizes will be divided as follows:

1st Place: 600 USDC
2nd Place: 300 USDC
3rd Place: 180 USDC
4th Place: 120 USDC

6) The winner will be determined by the number of upvotes received on Kiwi.

To qualify for the contest, you must submit your post between the 2nd of September and the 17th of September 22nd of September, 23:59:59 Howland Island time, so you have as much time to write as possible.

After requests from our writers, we have extended the deadline to the 22nd of September.

7) On the 20th of September 26th of September, we calculate the final scores and reveal the winners in the next five days.

If you are one of the winners, you will just have to send us a receipt/invoice and the wallet address to which you want the USDC to be sent.

All writers are also welcome to share their posts on X and Lens. Our profiles will repost the best submissions.

If you want a retweet on X, you should tag @KiwiNewsHQ, @t2wrld, and @LensProtocol. If you want a repost on Lens, you should tag @kiwinews, @t2world, and @lens.

Summary

The future of Ethereum relies on L2s.

Although they’ve been around for some time, there are still many misconceptions and unexplored ideas around them. This is why we invite you to think through this subject so that we - as a community - get more clarity in that area.

We hope to get some fresh ideas and give writers access to some well-educated crypto audiences. We think it’s a good win-win opportunity for writers - even if they don’t win the money, they can win some attention and new subscribers.

If you have any questions, feel free to DM @macbudkowski on Telegram.

PS: We want the best posts to win. So, if we see any attempts to game the contest, e.g., by creating multiple accounts to upvote a particular post, we reserve the right to modify how we determine the winner.

PS2: While we love people to experiment with technology, we also love to value your own ideas. To this end, writers using AI for research are welcomed - however, you should be able to write a full text and not a prompt. Texts suspicious of being fully AI will be checked thoroughly - do not risk disqualification!

Using AI to translate essays into English (if English is not your native tongue) is accepted.