# Best of bankless.com on Kiwi News Page: https://news.kiwistand.com/source/bankless.com 233 stories from bankless.com have been shared on Kiwi News since 28 July 2023, with 414 upvotes and 73 comments in total. The latest was shared on 25 March 2026. The 50 most upvoted are listed below. Summaries are AI summaries of the linked article. ## 1. Why This Cycle Is Cooked - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Why-This-Cycle-Is-Cooked?index=0x663957e09ad52363c6b1d27969e2b63a7b0c8017c6841bf850ad65ab9caac493f79ed9ef - Source: https://www.bankless.com/cycle-could-be-cooked - Shared 6 May 2024, 8 upvotes, 5 comments The author argues that the points-and-airdrop token distribution model has become unsustainable, and that its problems stem from an oversupply of VC capital, few new retail entrants, and what the text calls an overbearing SEC. Venture-backed startups can stay private longer, so by the time a token launches at $1-10 billion, much of the upside has already been taken by earlier investors, and the text cites Vance's estimate of $200-300 billion in sell pressure from VC unlocks in 2024 and 2025. Coinbase's Q2 report is cited as evidence that retail trading volumes remain well below their 2021 highs. The article also says LayerZero's self-report program for Sybil addresses, which offers 15% of intended allocation with a May 17 deadline, reflects a conflict between rewarding durable users and sybil farmers. ## 2. Farcaster: The Next Big AI Agents Hub? on Bankless - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Farcaster-The-Next-Big-AI-Agents-Hub-on-Bankless?index=0x6721643c15fe5a1bad65dcff525b959c7269160ce33da03aa947975a91b6c21127026c83 - Source: https://www.bankless.com/farcaster-ai-agents-hub - Shared 29 October 2024, 8 upvotes, 3 comments Aether, a new AI agent on Farcaster with crypto capabilities and an onchain treasury, is presented as a sign that Farcaster could become a hub for AI agent innovation. The article says Aether began tipping $HIGHER and receiving donations after getting an account on Supercast, and its NFTs on Zora have been collected over 466k times and minted 348k times in a collaboration with Zora founder Jacob. Its Base treasury is near $150,000, and it had issued 59 bounties worth over $1,600 on Bountycaster at the time of writing. ## 3. Ethereum Monetizes Open Source - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Ethereum-Monetizes-Open-Source?index=0x68ab03f1a80418e002a9126b82d43fca9f35e5461099fa2e30e2951455543d7af67bef55 - Source: https://www.bankless.com/read/ethereum-monetizes-open-source - Shared 24 August 2025, 7 upvotes, 3 comments The article argues that Ethereum's open source foundation makes it the strongest home for open source financial software, using a cycling analogy: the largest group, or peloton, wins because it coordinates effort and conserves energy, and there is no finish line. It says Ethereum's inclusive design, including its comprehensible specification, multiple clients written in different languages, and multiple L2 implementations, keeps more participants in the pack. It also describes ETH as the native asset that flows through, secures, and coordinates this ecosystem, serving as both fuel and collateral, and says its value comes from network effects rather than profit margins or revenue. ## 4. NFT Storage: Comparing IPFS, Filecoin, and Arweave - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/NFT-Storage-Comparing-IPFS-Filecoin-and-Arweave?index=0x66bef94061566bf206ec76b6b43f5ea23a3c6154734b6a099ac4ec5b10621775855dc42c - Source: https://www.bankless.com/nft-storage?ref=bankless.ghost.io - Shared 16 August 2024, 6 upvotes, 1 comment The article explains how IPFS, Filecoin, and Arweave differ as alternatives to fully onchain NFT storage, with each relying on different trust assumptions. IPFS is a peer-to-peer file system where data stays available only if nodes choose to pin it, often through services like ClubNFT or Pinata. Filecoin adds FIL-based incentives and storage deals that must be renewed over time, and the Museum of Crypto Art is cited as a user. Arweave offers a one-time upfront fee meant to fund permanent storage through an endowment, with projects such as Manifold and Irys building on it. ## 5. Degen Chain Stops Producing Blocks - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Degen-Chain-Stops-Producing-Blocks?index=0x664251c7e4ad2d9ac37828765e4432652f4462fd3b76287459a3959030e2f6731d865658 - Source: https://www.bankless.com/degen-chain-stops - Shared 13 May 2024, 6 upvotes, 1 comment Degen Chain, an L3 network on Base developed by Syndicate for the DEGEN memecoin, has stopped producing blocks for over 19 hours as of 4:15 p.m. ET the previous day. The chain stopped validating new transactions, which affects all of its services, including Relay Bridge, DegenSwap, Mint Club, and Frogswap. The Degen Chain team is working with Conduit, the rollup infrastructure provider, to restore functionality. DEGEN continues to trade on Base, though it was down about 8% over the prior 24 hours. ## 6. Cult NFTs are Winning - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Cult-NFTs-are-Winning?index=0x66e34906a1a4f35db4063249ae762852d04af127b7a027a33977740601d1ac91737fc3b0 - Source: https://www.bankless.com/cult-nfts-are-winning?ref=bankless.ghost.io - Shared 12 September 2024, 6 upvotes, 0 comments Community-driven "cult" NFT collections are outperforming corporate-style PFP projects, because decentralized holder participation fits crypto's principles better. Milady Maker, launched in August 2021 by Charlotte Fang and Remilia Collective, has a floor price of about 3.4 ETH against a 0.06 ETH mint price, despite controversy centered on Fang. Sproto Gremlins, launched last summer alongside the BITCOIN memecoin, are priced at 0.6 ETH, down from an all-time high of about 1.4 ETH, while Bored Ape Yacht Club and Azuki have seen significant price declines from their all-time highs. ## 7. Lens vs. Farcaster. Which decentralized social protocol has more to offer? - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Lens-vs-Farcaster-Which-decentralized-social-protocol-has-more-to-offer?index=0x65de9f6376c98b87598218ec6983022e42e398f56356523131390a6f0d75386b3d28f4b2 - Source: https://www.bankless.com/lens-versus-farcaster-social-network - Shared 28 February 2024, 6 upvotes, 0 comments Lens has opened permissionless signups, so anyone can create a profile without an invite, bringing it level with Farcaster, which rolled out permissionless access in October 2023. The article argues that Lens can catch up to Farcaster's traction, pointing to Lens's 125,000 profiles before going permissionless and to Farcaster's base of over 200,000 users, which grew after the launch of Farcaster Frames. It notes that Lens creating a profile costs a flat fee of 10 MATIC, roughly $10 at the time of writing, while Farcaster offers free signups via Warpcast for mobile users in supported countries and charges a $5 fee elsewhere. ## 8. My Favorite Tools for Crypto Writers - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/My-Favorite-Tools-for-Crypto-Writers?index=0x680807b3ba55bb50d5c010e25b1cfc286750ee7bf84b1df714358a6b4ea58ba386905f5a - Source: https://www.bankless.com/read/crypto-writer-tools - Shared 22 April 2025, 5 upvotes, 2 comments The author argues that crypto needs more writers and that the main barrier is psychological, with a range of decentralized tools available for publishing. The piece recommends Paragraph for longform posts, noting that Paragraph acquired Mirror last year, and Fountain for the Lens ecosystem. For short-form writing collectibles, it names Highlight, Rodeo and Zora, and for distribution it recommends Warpcast on Farcaster and Hey on Lens. Wait, I need to correct the wording to fit the rules: avoid "The author argues" framing. Crypto needs more writers, and the main obstacle is psychological, according to the piece, which points to a range of decentralized publishing tools. For longform posts it recommends Paragraph, which acquired Mirror last year, and Fountain for the Lens ecosystem. For short-form writing collectibles it names Highlight, Rodeo and Zora, while Warpcast on Farcaster and Hey on Lens are suggested for distribution. ## 9. Off the Grid FTW - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Off-the-Grid-FTW?index=0x670a31c0565d39667d3e2c8fc33ef055b7f7a82e0d297ead78411fea1e68e9924fc32af2 - Source: https://www.bankless.com/off-the-grid-ftw - Shared 12 October 2024, 5 upvotes, 1 comment Off the Grid, a new free-to-play "extraction" battle royale built on its own custom Avalanche network, is presented as a crypto game that mainstream players may enjoy. The article says the game partnered with streamers including Ninja and TimTheTatman this week and received rave reviews. It states the game is now the most popular free-to-play title on the Epic Games Store and at one point drew more stream views than Fortnite. The author attributes its appeal mainly to being fun, with blockchain elements abstracted away from players. ## 10. Argentina's crypto moment - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Argentinas-crypto-moment?index=0x66d0e3658cd48297a10cd8ab722c40ea406c7557b1c46f440b2feb28f7652edc52c147f0 - Source: https://www.bankless.com/crecimiento-aleph-argentinas-crypto-moment - Shared 29 August 2024, 5 upvotes, 1 comment Bankless writer reports from Aleph, a month-long crypto pop-up city in Buenos Aires, arguing that Argentina is the spearhead of crypto because millions of Argentines already use it for everyday needs such as escaping inflation and buying coffee. The article credits Protocol Labs with top-down support for Aleph and says its Aleph Hub co-working space hosted 67 crypto startups and 22 mentors. It also describes QuarkID, an identity app incubated by the City of Buenos Aires, and MORFI tokens, which Aleph citizens receive weekly and redeem at more than 50 local businesses. The author notes that President Javier Milei's government has taken pro-crypto steps but that long-term legal protections remain unresolved. ## 11. The $BONSAI Opp - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/The-dollarBONSAI-Opp?index=0x663bb79c7c8fa1f530edfa5137b68898e66d519abe3f678313cdd7e1657398bd07fb7066 - Source: https://www.bankless.com/the-bonsai-opp - Shared 8 May 2024, 5 upvotes, 1 comment ## 12. Understanding Wow: Zora's New Memecoin Platform - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Understanding-Wow-Zoras-New-Memecoin-Platform?index=0x672dc954e4d3d80ed529d15c36552835ef7cc1dc84c90978e737e66bfbb40e68661bfd37 - Source: https://www.bankless.com/zora-wow-memecoins - Shared 8 November 2024, 5 upvotes, 0 comments Wow is a new memecoin platform and protocol on Base from Zora, in which each token's supply is managed by a bonding curve and creators earn fees over time. The bonding curve mints tokens when users buy and burns them when users sell, and a token graduates to a Uniswap liquidity pool at an 800 million supply, or a $69,000 market cap. Every buy or sell incurs a 1% protocol fee, split 50% to the token creator, 20% to the protocol, and 15% each to platform and order referrers. Five early graduated tokens, including $DREAM and $WOW, had a combined market cap of just over $3 million at the time of writing. ## 13. Are Music NFTs Dead? - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Are-Music-NFTs-Dead?index=0x669a13b4efa32254f84a26c14deca217be0fe663bd42d687921e7979a9c4b313a44dab08 - Source: https://www.bankless.com/are-music-nfts-dead - Shared 19 July 2024, 5 upvotes, 0 comments Cooper Turley, creator of the onchain record label Coop Records, argued that the original paradigm of music NFTs had failed, though he framed this as an early vision failing rather than the format failing for good. He said collecting music should be free and accessible, like streaming on Spotify or YouTube, warned against roadmap-itis and expensive mints, and suggested open edition drops had replaced the old model. The article's author, who is a fan of Zora's free-mint model, says Zora's 0.000777 ETH fee lets artists earn more than they would from streaming. Coop Records has also paid collectors token rewards through the Boost platform, which has brought minting costs to about $1 per mint after more than $100,000 in rewards. ## 14. Exploring Apps on the New Shape L2 - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Exploring-Apps-on-the-New-Shape-L2?index=0x66fce672f4e95f9a1fe90d8287940cb340dd12b1eaf76f41412530613c844ca0171f2625 - Source: https://www.bankless.com/exploring-shape-l2-apps - Shared 2 October 2024, 4 upvotes, 8 comments Shape, an art-focused Ethereum Layer 2 built by the team behind the Deca NFT curation platform, has gone live with its first apps. The network is part of Optimism's Superchain and features a Gasback program where artists and apps can claim 80% of the sequencer fees generated by users of their smart contracts. Users can bridge ETH through Superbridge or Relay, with Relay offering faster withdrawals than the roughly 7-day native bridging system. The article also recommends minting a free Stack NFT, which costs less than a cent in gas, and lists apps such as Passport, Deca, Highlight and White Walls. ## 15. What's New with Lens? - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Whats-New-with-Lens?index=0x67c0225d39ac92486e99e60482f7ae9f6b45120ed9d627af9be0b5331ffa5faada9b7574 - Source: https://www.bankless.com/read/whats-new-lens - Shared 27 February 2025, 4 upvotes, 2 comments Lens is preparing to launch its V3 protocol on Lens Chain, a ZKsync-based Layer 2 network, with mainnet still pending. The article says Lens V3 restructures onchain social interactions into modular building blocks, and that in February 2025 Lens announced GHO, Aave's stablecoin, would serve as Lens Chain's native gas token. In February 2025, Lens migrated over 125GB of V2 data from Polygon to V3 contracts on the Lens Chain testnet, including 28 million follower connections and 16 million posts. ZIP-7, which would integrate Lens Chain into ZKsync's Elastic Network, has moved to an onchain vote, with the voting period ending March 10, 2025. ## 16. Unpacking Uniswap's Unichain - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Unpacking-Uniswaps-Unichain?index=0x67084dde25ee8180bce5eefd4cc1c3d8f37f648c727f677cc6e2a2f18e2609ea69c16459 - Source: https://www.bankless.com/unichain-uniswap - Shared 10 October 2024, 4 upvotes, 1 comment Uniswap has announced Unichain, an OP Stack rollup with a Uniswap deployment that it hopes will become crypto's main liquidity hub. The article says the network plans to use a trusted execution environment secured by UNI validators, cutting user transaction wait times fourfold from 1 second to 200-250 milliseconds and enabling the UNI fee switch through staking. The Unichain testnet launched first, with mainnet expected later in the year. The article also notes that about 80% of Uniswap's TVL remained in its Ethereum-based smart contracts at the time of analysis, so liquidity providers may not migrate automatically. ## 17. Building a Sustainable Metaverse: Lessons from the Virtual Land Collapse - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Building-a-Sustainable-Metaverse-Lessons-from-the-Virtual-Land-Collapse?index=0x66aca98ae1b184dcd6f328624f6ef32f880f05f62086d8a9f88fc6a79239d52c4e451d7d - Source: https://www.bankless.com/metaverse-lessons-virtual-land - Shared 2 August 2024, 4 upvotes, 1 comment Polygonal Mind, the team behind VIPE and CryptoAvatars, announced it is closing because of tough market conditions, a development the article calls sad but not surprising given how hard the metaverse sector has been hit since crypto's post-2021 bear market. The author argues that metaverse land projects fell because of a "land speculation death spiral," in which artificial scarcity invites speculators to hoard parcels. Decentraland parcels are reported down 97.5% from peak floor prices, The Sandbox's down 97.4%, and Yuga Labs' Otherdeeds down 97.2%. The author suggests a land tax, as EVE Online used after its first real estate bubble, with proceeds funding a "Citizen's Dividend" for active users. ## 18. Tool Tip: Minting NFTs on Manifold - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Tool-Tip-Minting-NFTs-on-Manifold?index=0x68f904c4b0b3a8fa55394d2123d27b7afd41fc92628d48f981303775cd91f26e0fdcf246 - Source: https://www.bankless.com/read/tool-tip-minting-nfts-on-manifold - Shared 22 October 2025, 4 upvotes, 0 comments Manifold is the best place to drop NFTs for creators who want flexibility, according to the article, while Rodeo suits casual sharing through its 24-hour open edition Base NFT mints. The author says Manifold's studio lets creators run many release formats side by side, including 1/1s, editions, burn-to-redeem drops, marketplace listings, and blind mints for items like trading cards. The article cites figures from Manifold's anniversary post: 25 thousand creators had deployed their own creator contract on Ethereum L1, and creators had earned $250 million in lifetime auction earnings. ## 19. EIP-7702: A Game Changer for Ethereum's Onchain Culture Scene - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/EIP-7702-A-Game-Changer-for-Ethereums-Onchain-Culture-Scene?index=0x681c8f18a106bea0cc8aafa2fc6bcaf671a4010e88635e182934438bb44a4806541f675c - Source: https://www.bankless.com/read/eip-7702-ethereum-onchain-culture - Shared 8 May 2025, 4 upvotes, 0 comments EIP-7702, an Ethereum proposal that lets any externally owned account temporarily act like a smart contract account, went live today with the Pectra upgrade, according to the article. It works by letting wallets delegate control to smart contract code through authorization data, so users can access features such as sponsored gas, custom gas tokens and session keys without migrating assets to a new account. The article names Privy, an embedded wallet provider used by apps including Blackbird, OpenSea and Zora, as offering day-one support, and it links a Dune dashboard that tracks EIP-7702 usage. ## 20. Lens’s Living Media: The Bonsai Smart Media Studio - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Lenss-Living-Media-The-Bonsai-Smart-Media-Studio?index=0x6803ac2f48e24256b1934ae97800ba5dd2c9cc21416402a188f5e507f3ee5ba4092ee46b - Source: https://www.bankless.com/read/bonsai-smart-media - Shared 19 April 2025, 4 upvotes, 0 comments Bonsai has launched a no-code creator studio on Lens that lets anyone publish AI-driven "Smart Media" posts that evolve, react, and earn onchain. Each post starts from a template that defines its memory, logic and behavior, and updates automatically based on new interactions. Templates include "Evolving Post" for choose-your-own-adventure stories, "Evolving Art" for images that change with replies, upvotes or token activity, and "Campfire" for collaborative spaces where people and AI agents reply together. Creators earn from $BONSAI collect fees and trading fees on tokens tied to posts, which start on a bonding curve and move to Uniswap after reaching a liquidity threshold. ## 21. What's the Deal with MegaETH? - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Whats-the-Deal-with-MegaETH?index=0x668641dbf57da7f7ba59484076525c11c4fd71d249f028a3bbfd5fe820e7054d671ea37f - Source: https://www.bankless.com/whats-the-deal-with-megaeth-2 - Shared 4 July 2024, 4 upvotes, 0 comments MegaETH, an upcoming L2 described as "real-time Ethereum," announced it received $20M in seed funding at a valuation above $100M, led by Dragonfly Capital. The article claims the chain targets sub-millisecond latency and over 100k transactions per second by using a single active sequencer that orders and executes transactions, with full nodes applying state differences and validating blocks through proofs from a prover. It also says MegaETH stores its full state in memory and uses a just-in-time compiler to boost computation-intensive applications by 100x. Co-founder Yilong Li is quoted in a July 3, 2024 post countering the view that the optimizations apply to L1, saying they depend on leveraging Ethereum and EigenDA for security and censorship resistance. ## 22. The Hallucinated Future of Onchain Social and Beyond - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/The-Hallucinated-Future-of-Onchain-Social-and-Beyond?index=0x69c3e2077ad92cccf432c5ad337807f513093ed3d46788171599f1ff18174b97e2fd6695 - Source: https://www.bankless.com/read/hallucinated-future-onchain-social - Shared 25 March 2026, 3 upvotes, 3 comments Hallucinated servers, a cryptographic approach where distributed users collectively simulate an app with no physical host or central operator, could complement onchain social apps and other CROPS-aligned projects. The idea, outlined by gubsheep of 0xPARC in Programmable Cryptography (Part 1), uses fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) and multiparty computation (MPC) so that each user holds private state plus an encrypted fragment of the app state. At Devcon SEA in 2024, gubsheep and collaborators demoed Frog Zone, a multiplayer game run entirely inside FHE, though 150 bytes of its game state required 9 machines at around $200 an hour and ran about 1 billion times slower than traditional computation. ## 23. Telegram Updates Policy So Users Can Report Private Chats - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Telegram-Updates-Policy-So-Users-Can-Report-Private-Chats?index=0x66dee7ca9bfcd29ab6dbd491cda04e2f68c61e9724b3e0fe1ff55b039b4a7e1666866b92 - Source: https://www.bankless.com/telegram-updates-policy-so-users-can-report-private-chats - Shared 9 September 2024, 3 upvotes, 2 comments Telegram is changing its moderation policy after CEO Pavel Durov was arrested in France for allegedly failing to combat criminal activity on the platform, including drug trafficking, fraud and child pornography distribution. The company now lets users flag illegal content in private chats and has removed the FAQ statement that all chats are private and unmonitored. Durov said French authorities had multiple ways to contact Telegram for assistance, that Telegram already removes millions of harmful posts daily, and that rapid growth has made policing the platform harder, though he promised to "significantly improve" moderation of illegal activity. ## 24. The Onchain Spectrum: NFT Storage on Ethereum, Bitcoin, and Solana - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/The-Onchain-Spectrum-NFT-Storage-on-Ethereum-Bitcoin-and-Solana?index=0x66bef5377b07bba1a324f0597a7b839afd5ac1b64a220a57f13619b3bd095e1e4e885c7d - Source: https://www.bankless.com/the-onchain-spectrum-nft?ref=bankless.ghost.io - Shared 16 August 2024, 3 upvotes, 2 comments This Bankless primer maps how NFT art and metadata are stored on Ethereum, Bitcoin, and Solana, and argues that storage choice should be judged case by case. It warns that IPFS-based NFTs can lose their art if used improperly, and cites nearly 30,000 NFTs from the shuttered KnownOrigins marketplace that rely on an outdated Infura link in their IPFS implementations. On Ethereum, the article describes offchain storage, onchain state, calldata and blobs, with blob storage available in full for 18 days before archiving begins. The subcategory names are the author's own. ## 25. Senate Votes to Repeal SEC Crypto Rule - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Senate-Votes-to-Repeal-SEC-Crypto-Rule?index=0x664658fb2e2925ed294ef6e8bea769b8e6742bba6ce1bffe896d179e9df5dc88393f09b7 - Source: https://www.bankless.com/senate-repeals-sec-rule - Shared 16 May 2024, 3 upvotes, 2 comments The U.S. Senate voted 60-38 to approve a resolution overturning the SEC's Staff Accounting Bulletin No. 121 (SAB 121), a policy requiring firms that custody crypto to record customer holdings on their balance sheets as liabilities. A dozen Democrats, including Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), joined Republicans in voting for the resolution, which the article describes as the first standalone crypto bill to pass both chambers of Congress. President Biden has said he would veto the resolution, arguing it could "constrain the SEC's ability to ensure appropriate guardrails and address future issues related to crypto-assets." ## 26. Ethereum’s Strategic Pivot: The Plan to Restore Dominance - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Ethereums-Strategic-Pivot-The-Plan-to-Restore-Dominance?index=0x6806220f06c45514d7fc3376fa5116de1625179d35d46710efa49e66a7f68eb41b012f09 - Source: https://www.bankless.com/podcast/ethereums-strategic-pivot-ansgar-dankrad-mike-ippolito - Shared 21 April 2025, 3 upvotes, 1 comment This podcast episode of Bankless features Ethereum Foundation researchers Dankrad Feist and Onsgard Dietrichson discussing how Ethereum should reorient its strategy. Dietrichson argues that the lack of growth in the Ethereum layer 1 is perhaps the majority of Ethereum's problems, and that the falling ETH price is a downstream consequence. Feist says the core issue is that Ethereum never took the downstream consequences of decentralization seriously, and that the Foundation saw its role as public goods funding rather than leadership. The hosts also note that activity on Ethereum is down and that other ecosystems are capturing marginal growth. ## 27. NFT Popularization Era - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/NFT-Popularization-Era?index=0x678bbab0e988778a491b412281d7f774f7d4c3a25bac70cc7f5ab3dfaba616467941d0f2 - Source: https://www.bankless.com/read/nft-popularization-era - Shared 18 January 2025, 3 upvotes, 1 comment The author of this Bankless culture roundup argues that NFT rarity will keep rising because minting has become abundant, with the earliest fully onchain NFTs likely to become esteemed collectibles. Citing a graphic by archivist.eth, the piece divides NFT history into four eras, from the Experimentation Era (2011-2014) to the current Popularization Era (2021-today), and says nearly 98% of all NFTs have been minted since 2021. It also cites Electric Capital's 2024 Developer Report for record NFT minting activity in 2024. The roundup then lists weekly news items across general news, cryptoart, gaming and other categories. ## 28. 8 Devcon Talks You Won't Want to Miss - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/8-Devcon-Talks-You-Wont-Want-to-Miss?index=0x67445276685113f1ad3a71d782bb45a7d9ca1010992a2b6e7b99aef0d3bdf39437274f84 - Source: https://www.bankless.com/8-devcon-talks-2024 - Shared 25 November 2024, 3 upvotes, 1 comment Devcon 7, held November 12-15, 2024, at the Queen Sirikit National Convention Center in Bangkok, featured talks that this roundup presents as among the best of the event. Vitalik Buterin's "Ethereum in 30 Minutes" highlighted the shift from basic infrastructure to applications, and he argued that Ethereum is primed for builders to create transformative apps. A panel moderated by Anthony Sassano concluded that blobs are a net positive for Ethereum, though they will require continuous development. Justin Drake introduced the "Beam Chain" proposal, which would replace the Beacon Chain with four-second slots and single-slot finality. ## 29. 5 Undervalued Ethereum NFTs - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/5-Undervalued-Ethereum-NFTs?index=0x667e59fbc704ee320ca6b6eed8e32df1d0663d7d3f6b29972adb5d41972f3d695b26023b - Source: https://www.bankless.com/5-undervalued-ethereum-nfts - Shared 28 June 2024, 3 upvotes, 1 comment The author argues that smaller Ethereum NFT projects are undervalued and could rebound as the market recovers from a bearish period. Highlighted picks include 0xmons, a 2020 pixel monster collection animated with GAN technology, and Avastars, which pioneered storing all traits fully onchain, currently at a 0.013 ETH floor. Also named are CrypToadz by Gremplin, Mutant Garden Seeder by Harm van den Dorpel, which the author says should trade around 4 ETH again, and Terraforms by Mathcastles, which the author considers undervalued above a 1 ETH floor. ## 30. NFTs as ETH Beta: The Collections Outpacing Ethereum’s Rally - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/NFTs-as-ETH-Beta-The-Collections-Outpacing-Ethereums-Rally?index=0x689e4a5519eb9c4bc763a2f95027151b034eb6ce23b37f5243f47703b85706d62e2c979a - Source: https://www.bankless.com/read/nfts-outpacing-eth - Shared 14 August 2025, 3 upvotes, 0 comments Ethereum NFT collections are showing ETH beta, rising faster than ETH itself during its recent rally, according to the article's author, who builds on a view attributed to Fiskantes that the best ETH beta candidate is ETH-denominated assets such as Ethereum OG NFTs. ETH rose 47% over the past 30 days, while Moonbirds gained 304% to a 2.95 ETH floor, Mooncats gained 180%, and V1 CryptoPunks gained 71% to a 3.95 ETH floor. The article argues this creates a reflexive loop in which ETH gains fuel NFT buying and rising floors add ETH-denominated wealth, though it also notes that ETH weakness could unwind gains faster. ## 31. How Ethereum Can Win - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/How-Ethereum-Can-Win?index=0x6803ab77e68117daaf98acd1ba5fa10acbadf921a472e2c87a74954d5b8a590ea5b8fc90 - Source: https://www.bankless.com/read/how-ethereum-can-win - Shared 19 April 2025, 3 upvotes, 0 comments The article argues that Ethereum is slowly turning itself around after a misalignment between long-term research ideals and short-term execution left it exposed to competition. It identifies problem areas including L1 underinvestment, a product mindset deficiency, a leadership vacuum, and an ivory tower culture. Responses it cites include a plan to increase gas limits 10x over two years, with a target of 100 million gas by the end of 2024 and 300 million under the Glamsterdam hard fork, plus co-executive directors Tomasz Stańczak and Hsiao-Wei Wang at the Ethereum Foundation. ## 32. Making Memecoins in Seconds with AI on Farcaster on Bankless - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Making-Memecoins-in-Seconds-with-AI-on-Farcaster-on-Bankless?index=0x673ddda315dd3e0bc9d08d4361f0045fa5cdf2886315a1080aac12c46da3055ef413976f - Source: https://www.bankless.com/making-farcaster-memecoins-clanker - Shared 20 November 2024, 3 upvotes, 0 comments Clanker is an AI-powered tokenbot on Farcaster that lets users launch tokens on Base by tagging the bot in a cast with a name, ticker and optional image. The article reports that Aether, an AI agent from the Higher community, used Clanker to create the Luminous ($LUM) token, which reached an $80 million market cap in one week. A Dune dashboard cited in the article shows 4 Clanker-launched tokens reaching over $1 million in market cap and more than a dozen reaching over $100,000, out of over 1,500 tokens created. Each token's liquidity pool is locked on Uniswap V3, and the creator earns 40% of pool fees in perpetuity, though launching grants no supply to the creator. ## 33. Crypto's AI Agent Trends - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Cryptos-AI-Agent-Trends?index=0x6718da12455b7428d5dadc3a654773576647b6ad6a6385cc13d655b58af72b6efdf4722f - Source: https://www.bankless.com/cryptos-ai-agent-trends - Shared 23 October 2024, 3 upvotes, 0 comments Crypto newsletter Bankless argues that AI-driven personalities, including AI agents that build followings like influencers, are shaping culture and markets and will remain a lasting feature of crypto. The piece says the implications extend beyond AI memecoins, as growing interest in Large Language Models (LLMs) suggests onchain AI experiments are poised to expand in many directions. It presents three trends to watch in onchain AI agents, though the excerpt provided does not spell them out. ## 34. Why I joined the Nouns - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Why-I-joined-the-Nouns?index=0x671683ccea701505f0e1a33209cfdc598c60a44271b263d74f719e643bb3d5878d1e2054 - Source: https://www.bankless.com/why-i-joined-nouns-dao - Shared 21 October 2024, 3 upvotes, 0 comments Brandon James Scott writes that he has joined the Nouns DAO by acquiring Noun #1074 for $10k, the culmination of a three-year journey covering the project since its 2021 launch. He cites the smart contracts, which he calls a technical work of Ethereum art that gave rise to the "Nounish DAO" primitive, the fully onchain art by crypto-native artists Gremplin and Timpers, and the collective's grassroots funding of art, charity, esports and public goods. He says the purchase is not about financial value and that he will not resell the Noun, and he urges readers to find a crypto project they love and dive in. ## 35. Why Nouns Esports Is a Game Changer - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Why-Nouns-Esports-Is-a-Game-Changer?index=0x670f86ee03006ff0ffa40634fd930404781cdeee27e9bcaeeefa4b807ce0b3f8ca842a37 - Source: https://www.bankless.com/nouns-esports-game-changer?ref=bankless.ghost.io - Shared 16 October 2024, 3 upvotes, 0 comments Nouns Esports, the competitive gaming arm of the Nouns DAO, shows that a community-run, DAO-backed esports organization can thrive, according to the author. The DAO approved its first professional Dota 2 roster in May 2022 and expanded Nouns Esports into a full-time operation in December 2023. The article says its Dota 2 and Counter-Strike teams are among the best in the North American region, and its Smash roster includes Aklo and Cody Schwab, and that gaming fans have responded positively to the DAO's support. ## 36. Getting Ready for NFTs on Unichain - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Getting-Ready-for-NFTs-on-Unichain?index=0x67084dde9ea220adc64cfce3454c8cf23d9aa7c1e25aba875199a668d32e327a07d742dc - Source: https://www.bankless.com/getting-ready-unichain-nfts - Shared 10 October 2024, 3 upvotes, 0 comments Uniswap has announced Unichain, a general-purpose Layer 2 built for DeFi that is open to other apps, and William M. Peaster of Bankless argues it could also develop an NFT scene. Because Unichain is EVM-equivalent, projects such as Zora's NFT minting protocol could be redeployed on it, and the first NFTs on the network will be Uniswap V3 LP position NFTs, which can already be used on the Unichain Sepolia testnet. Peaster predicts NFTs will settle at roughly 2-3% of gas fees, similar to DeFi-focused L2s like Arbitrum, Base and ZKsync, rather than the 40%-plus seen on Zora Network. The Unichain mainnet launch is scheduled for November 2024. ## 37. Congress Roasts SEC in Hearing Over 'Politicized' Regulation - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Congress-Roasts-SEC-in-Hearing-Over-Politicized-Regulation?index=0x66eb37f80cc750d1c196af9e863abd6ad36ec68531b7298487818806384ff328df577ad8 - Source: https://www.bankless.com/sec-crypto-congress-scrutiny - Shared 18 September 2024, 3 upvotes, 0 comments Lawmakers and crypto industry figures criticized the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission at a congressional hearing titled "Dazed and Confused: Breaking Down the SEC's Politicized Approach to Digital Assets." Former SEC Commissioner Dan Gallagher, now a top legal officer at Robinhood, said his company struggled to comply with SEC crypto rules and criticized the agency for stalling registration processes for crypto firms. Rep. French Hill (R-Ark.) accused the SEC of using "regulation by enforcement" to unfairly target crypto companies that were trying to comply. Rep. Stephen Lynch (D-Mass.) defended the SEC, stressing that crypto firms need to follow established rules. ## 38. Are L2s Ethereum? - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Are-L2s-Ethereum?index=0x66e1b33a668de36444fe2cb0f4e74f33ea7fc74752a2216827e1732ceb0ac77fd10e05a7 - Source: https://www.bankless.com/are-l2s-ethereum - Shared 11 September 2024, 3 upvotes, 0 comments Ethereum and its L2s are presented as a symbiotic whole rather than a zero-sum contest, and the article argues that L2s enhance the utility of Ethereum and ETH. L2s rely on ETH as currency, store data on Ethereum, and settle there, and the article says the proliferation of L2s is a success of the rollup-centric roadmap. It also warns of fragmentation from too many copycat L2s with little differentiation, and names Superchain, AggLayer, Elastic Chain and Orbit Chains as initiatives aimed at seamless connectivity. ## 39. Can Onchain Games Survive Bots? - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Can-Onchain-Games-Survive-Bots?index=0x66a095f4045f48f012c1aa458fa11b715b03e4e7ad04c2d952dd394f220b3f11888c4364 - Source: https://www.bankless.com/onchain-games-bots - Shared 24 July 2024, 3 upvotes, 0 comments Dan Elitzer of Nascent asked on Twitter whether unassisted humans can be competitive in fully onchain games, citing a thread by security researcher plotchy. plotchy reverse-engineered Kamigotchi, a new fully onchain RPG, built an indexer to parse its data, and wrote a bot that hunted other Kamis and quickly dominated the leaderboards. Kamigotchi creator lethe argued that onchain games must accept bots as part of the user base and that the challenge is balancing game design for them. The article also suggests anti-sybil measures and guild coordination, with Ben Giove, founder of the WASD guild, saying "The best defense against bots in onchain games is to join a guild." ## 40. Ethereum Foundation and Immunefi Launch 'Attackathon' - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Ethereum-Foundation-and-Immunefi-Launch-Attackathon?index=0x668cd5a2698fe7f80027cc26552b56c22d0d26ef15c29ed4f95ce3fa870efdf722da2cac - Source: https://www.bankless.com/ef-immunefi-attackathon - Shared 9 July 2024, 3 upvotes, 0 comments The Ethereum Foundation and Immunefi have launched the first Ethereum protocol Attackathon, a crowdsourced security audit competition hosted by Immunefi. The four-week event focuses on finding vulnerabilities in the Ethereum protocol, with participants receiving code education through live technical walkthroughs and Attackathon Academy content first. The Ethereum Foundation seeded the reward pool with $500,000 and aims to raise over $2 million by the end of the sponsorship program on August 1, 2024. Immunefi will compile the findings into an official report that highlights discovered vulnerabilities and recognizes top researchers. ## 41. ZK Trademark Controversy Unfolds - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/ZK-Trademark-Controversy-Unfolds?index=0x66590093e586e1dae783309cf05484a88834108bb874932519f041a3074d75118802475e - Source: https://www.bankless.com/zk-trademark-controversy-unfolds - Shared 30 May 2024, 3 upvotes, 0 comments Leading zero-knowledge crypto projects, including Polygon and StarkWare, have called on zkSync to withdraw its "ZK" trademark applications ahead of its planned token launch. zkSync, developed by Matter Labs, reportedly plans to use "ZK" as its ticker, which has created tension with Polyhedra Network, which previously used the $ZK ticker and has switched to "ZKJ" for its exchange listings. Polygon cofounder Sandeep Nailwal and StarkWare CEO Eli Ben-Sasson signed a joint statement arguing that "ZK" should remain a public good, while Matter Labs CEO Alex Gluchowski defended the filings as defensive measures against dishonest actors. ## 42. Bearish Unlock - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Bearish-Unlock?index=0x665101df9c370de361bf469ad9fb7d76c1a47978858a83e53afff222ceb32785a2d457ea - Source: https://www.bankless.com/bearish-unlock - Shared 24 May 2024, 3 upvotes, 0 comments Ethereum's spot ETFs took a step toward trading after listing exchanges received "delegated approval" for their 19b-4 applications, yet the ETH price has slid since, and the article argues that sell pressure from Grayscale Ethereum Trust (ETHE) redemptions is the likely cause. The article says ETH fell 8% when an expected 4 PM EST decision did not arrive, then rose nearly 4% after the approval announcement at 5:02 PM EST. It states that converting ETHE into a spot ETF would enable redemptions of over $10B in assets held at a discount for nearly three years. It also notes the ETH/BTC ratio spiked to 0.057 on approval before falling 3% on the day. ## 43. 8 Bitcoin L2s You Should Be Watching on Bankless - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/8-Bitcoin-L2s-You-Should-Be-Watching-on-Bankless?index=0x65e8054d08d1f30aa13c7ab9a8af1c42ad8118091e7d3689945e852e4181b4f20eb191ce - Source: https://www.bankless.com/8-bitcoin-l2s-you-should-watch - Shared 6 March 2024, 3 upvotes, 0 comments ## 44. Top 10 Rug Pulls | Bankless - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Top-10-Rug-Pulls-or-Bankless?index=0x65021b797c864c62ec9063a53e32519dbe86b2704bd28019d7b30a28532ea7c15daf97b3 - Source: https://www.bankless.com/top-10-rug-pulls - Shared 13 September 2023, 3 upvotes, 0 comments This Bankless article ranks the top 10 DeFi rug pulls of all time, using DefiLlama's list of onchain rug pulls to avoid judging intent, with AnubisDAO first at about $60M lost in October 2021. The article says insiders exploit user trust to steal assets, often through malicious code in smart contracts. It also argues that about 84% of the funds lost across the top 10 were lost in 2021, and that auditing firms and community members have grown more vigilant since then. ## 45. 5 New Hardware Wallets for the Holidays - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/5-New-Hardware-Wallets-for-the-Holidays?index=0x674a2a9b36a6b6aad6363bc120626e49444c2b0a66bfad76d3e45af4132f45fb0629f67d - Source: https://www.bankless.com/read/5-new-hardware-wallets - Shared 29 November 2024, 2 upvotes, 2 comments Bankless recommends five newer hardware wallets as holiday gifts, arguing that hardware wallets are a safer choice than hot wallets such as Phantom. The piece cites a recent Phantom update that accidentally reset some iOS users' wallets, causing permanent fund losses for people who had not saved their recovery phrases. The listed devices are the Burner at $19, the Trezor Safe 5 at $169, the Ledger Flex at $249, the Ledger Stax at $399, and the dGEN1 at about $460, with the dGEN1 available for pre-order via an NFT mint on Base. ## 46. 4 Tips for Trading Memecoins with GeckoTerminal - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/4-Tips-for-Trading-Memecoins-with-GeckoTerminal?index=0x671b7230c9f2aa574b34779801a6946566e7d64121887b7bc5d711596e340c253ac3b26d - Source: https://www.bankless.com/4-tips-trading-memecoins-geckoterminal - Shared 25 October 2024, 2 upvotes, 2 comments This Bankless tutorial offers four tips for using GeckoTerminal to trade memecoins, while warning that over 99% of new memecoin projects fail to survive. It says the Categories page lists trending groups such as Pump.fun and Animal tokens, and the homepage filters include a "Very Early Degens" preset for tokens younger than 48 hours with at least 30 transactions, $10,000 in liquidity, and an $80,000 fully diluted value. It describes the GT Score as an automated safety ranking where scores closer to 100 indicate more basic safety guarantees, and it cites the $NOTAI token, flagged by SolSniffer for the ability to freeze holders' assets, which later cratered after launch. The Swap button routes users to trading pairs on platforms such as Raydium and Aerodrome. ## 47. The ETHZilla Opportunity - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/The-ETHZilla-Opportunity?index=0x68b6ee32e176e2761ef855f6b3069c9d1ee1a219f44148af35d14022f5c65ff513b0c077 - Source: https://www.bankless.com/read/the-ethzilla-opportunity - Shared 2 September 2025, 2 upvotes, 1 comment ETHZilla, a newly rebranded former biotech company, is positioning itself as a DeFi-focused Ethereum treasury firm, with backing from Peter Thiel and Electric Capital. As of August 27, it held 102,237 ETH, bought at an average of $3,948.72 for roughly $403M. Co-hosts Mac Rudisill and Avichal Garg of Electric Capital argued on Bankless that a treasury model offers advantages over ETH ETFs, including full staking and additional on-chain yields. The company also reported $215M in cash equivalents and a $250M buyback program. ## 48. Rethinking NFT Marketplaces - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Rethinking-NFT-Marketplaces?index=0x686f743fe06b8d539d358fca8d320e12b72117216b73c245baf611224dad33367306449b - Source: https://www.bankless.com/read/rethinking-nft-marketplaces - Shared 10 July 2025, 2 upvotes, 1 comment The author argues that an NFT marketplace built in 2025 should lead with engaging activities and treat buying and selling as secondary, so it could appeal beyond crypto users and avoid competing directly with OpenSea and Magic Eden. The proposed thought experiment, called Tableau as a placeholder name, would combine a "Curations" product, similar to Pinterest boards with Figma-style editing and referral splits on NFT purchases, with a "Badges" feature for commemorating achievements and a "Profiles" section tying them together. The author says the idea is not revolutionary but states they would use it for notes, moodboards, and wishlists. ## 49. The Great Bitcoin NFT Debate - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/The-Great-Bitcoin-NFT-Debate?index=0x684151b7b62db22edd0ecb0d111b7718b55b64d60cd90bc8678432619ea432d167512942 - Source: https://www.bankless.com/read/the-great-bitc - Shared 5 June 2025, 2 upvotes, 1 comment The article argues that the dispute over Bitcoin NFTs (Ordinals and inscriptions) could be resolved by adding OP_CAT to Bitcoin, which would let NFTs move to Layer 2 networks like Starknet while remaining rooted in Bitcoin. It describes a bridging process in which an inscription-bearing sat is locked in an OP_CAT covenant, a STARK prover records the lock, and a Starknet contract mints an ERC-721 representing it. The author suggests this would move NFT activity off the Bitcoin L1, reducing congestion and state bloat, while L2s could pay miners to settle on Bitcoin. The article characterizes the remaining obstacle as political rather than technical. ## 50. To Coin or Not to Coin - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/To-Coin-or-Not-to-Coin?index=0x6809f84970cee2bc13aab0ef7c8cbbf04ee10edd2fc711d066006beacf54e212b16a85f1 - Source: https://www.bankless.com/read/zora-coin-or-not-to-coin - Shared 24 April 2025, 2 upvotes, 1 comment Zora's new content coins, tokens tied to individual pieces of media, are drawing both praise and skepticism, and the article's author says they sit somewhere in the middle. Supporters argue that content coins offer creators direct earnings from trading fees based on attention, with examples of $5 to $50 per post, and that they turn likes and shares into market signals. Critics counter that the coins feel commodifying, noisy and financialized, and that NFTs remain better for expressive, programmable media. The article notes Zora's coins system is barely two months old.