# Best of read.cryptodatabytes.com on Kiwi News

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12 stories from read.cryptodatabytes.com have been shared on Kiwi News since 13 December 2023, with 34 upvotes and 2 comments in total. The latest was shared on 28 October 2025. They are listed below, most upvoted first.

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## 1. A Social and Financial Study of Memecoins

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/A-Social-and-Financial-Study-of-Memecoins?index=0x662a806dba2ff74575d28ab792e0d74abc83b980ca203da6801774618dfe0133dbf2f1fa
- Source: https://read.cryptodatabytes.com/p/a-social-and-financial-study-of-memecoins
- Shared 25 April 2024, 7 upvotes, 1 comment

The author proposes a dashboard that scores Farcaster memecoins on social and financial health, placing tokens into five categories from "Extreme Risk" to "Well Established," and finds that the results roughly match expectations, with DEGEN far ahead of the rest. The social score uses the activity level of ticker mentions, adjusted by week-over-week growth in unique casters and recipient casters, while the financial score uses non-token liquidity and DEX volume, adjusted by week-over-week liquidity growth. The analysis does not yet filter out sybil accounts and bots, so social scores for some tokens may be skewed. The article also lists open research questions about bot scoring, growth correlations and meme lifecycles.

## 2. How to Find and Analyze Trends on Farcaster

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/How-to-Find-and-Analyze-Trends-on-Farcaster?index=0x6651b2a2426d340463acb8a98dceaabec873a037563b67d7db6a22d5cd68710a9895b638
- Source: https://read.cryptodatabytes.com/p/how-to-find-and-analyze-trends-on
- Shared 25 May 2024, 7 upvotes, 0 comments

The author presents a Farcaster Trends Explorer dashboard that combines Farcaster social graph data, onchain transaction data, and verified wallet-to-user links, built on Neynar and Dune and open for anyone to use. The dashboard runs a word TF-IDF query over casts from the last 14 days, filtered to "active badge" users, and ranks users and channels into tiers based on followers, casts, and engagement score. The author reports that about 3k of 83k users who sent a cast in the last 14 days qualify as higher quality users, and that the dashboard can surface trending channels such as "superbowl", "donothing", and "consumercrypto" that are popular with influencers.

## 3. OpenRank: Powering Apps with Contextual and Personalized Graph Feeds

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/OpenRank-Powering-Apps-with-Contextual-and-Personalized-Graph-Feeds?index=0x66738e2291ed46abd86ebdea41964fef681f00eecf3689f536311744e0fac424c307e51a
- Source: https://read.cryptodatabytes.com/p/openrank-powering-apps-with-contextual
- Shared 20 June 2024, 4 upvotes, 0 comments

The article is a tutorial by an investor and advisor to the OpenRank team that presents OpenRank's eigentrust algorithm as a way to build personalized feeds for crypto apps. It says the algorithm ranks nodes in a graph by distributing trust, using a pretrust seed set, a localtrust graph of interactions, and a weighting constant c. In the worked example, the author builds a feed of recommended contracts from the wallets of Farcaster casters in the /base channel, using the top 100 casters by engagement as pretrust nodes. The graph covered 65,755 users, and the pretrust nodes reached 19% of it. The author also announces a Bytexplorers research mission in July to build graph datasets for feeds.

## 4. How to Read Block Explorers and Understand Transactions, Traces, and Logs on EVM

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/How-to-Read-Block-Explorers-and-Understand-Transactions-Traces-and-Logs-on-EVM?index=0x667017a251a0ec8e21da9a025618a45d3dd3abb82478437f1bab14831659c795f8db9465
- Source: https://read.cryptodatabytes.com/p/how-to-understand-transactions-traces
- Shared 17 June 2024, 4 upvotes, 0 comments

This guide explains how to read block explorer pages for EVM transactions, traces and logs, and how to map them to tables on Dune. It says the transaction page's key field to identify is whether the "to" address is a contract, and that the first concept to learn is the difference between an EOA and a contract address. It also explains that the first 4 bytes of input data form the function signature, that Dune decodes contract calls and events into tables such as uniswap_v3_ethereum.Pair_evt_Swap, and that the trace_address array shows call depth and order. The author recommends Phalcon for viewing traces, since Etherscan is harder to read for that purpose.

## 5. The ByteLight Token: Spotlight Any Crypto Data Question

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/The-ByteLight-Token-Spotlight-Any-Crypto-Data-Question?index=0x65ba1879c431ce470fd74788571b197f8ff3d8d46c09f9ad14a51669030166002691cd77
- Source: https://read.cryptodatabytes.com/p/the-bytelight-token-spotlight-any
- Shared 31 January 2024, 3 upvotes, 1 comment

The ByteLight token is an ERC1155 token that lets any holder post a crypto data question in the Farcaster /data channel, where it is spotlighted to the Bytexplorer community of 100+ data analysts, engineers and scientists. Questions stay open for 14 days, and answers are validated by a "@bytecast answered" reply from the question author or a like from a trailblazer-tier member or higher. The top three answers after 14 days are rewarded based on likes from the community. The article states that 75% of revenue from ByteLight mint sales and trading fees is planned to be split among the community based on explorer tokens earned, with 25% kept by the creator for now. The article also notes the quest is currently paused, and that the distribution method is not finalized.

## 6. Crypto Data Engineering Guide 2025

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Crypto-Data-Engineering-Guide-2025?index=0x677c27f16a836835a6ac531ec5270f2e0a522faf6f42e0e22c394ca05cce5752e62834a3
- Source: https://read.cryptodatabytes.com/p/2025-annual-guide-crypto-data-engineering
- Shared 6 January 2025, 2 upvotes, 0 comments

The guide, now in its fourth annual edition, focuses on Ethereum (EVM) data engineering for building continuous ETL pipelines that acquire onchain datasets for apps. It argues that backfilling raw chain data is growing expensive as chains scale: a Base backfill of blocks and receipts on Quicknode RPC costs almost $10k, and most platforms quote around $4k for a Base backfill of traces and logs plus about $2k per month for frontfill. Solana and Base data are cited at roughly 500TB and 50TB, respectively. The guide presents "post-execution transforms" as an alternative to backfill-then-transform, and surveys tools such as Ponder, Quicknode Functions, Cryo and Dune for that approach.

## 7. Crypto Data Bytes

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Crypto-Data-Bytes?index=0x657a25728cc52e9de2001dfb21609922805faef1907286ce3eec1ff97db29f8ffbb0949d
- Source: https://read.cryptodatabytes.com
- Shared 13 December 2023, 2 upvotes, 0 comments

## 8. Unwrapping DeFi: The Evolution of Tokens, Pools, and Vaults

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Unwrapping-DeFi-The-Evolution-of-Tokens-Pools-and-Vaults?index=0x6900b4a9bf00eb9c386aad05a677e12ee4e52364ba40e4c6c13d1ab5d66a2bf2672d276f
- Source: https://read.cryptodatabytes.com/p/unwrapping-defi-the-evolution-of?isFreemail=true&post_id=177260978&publication_id=1205290&r=3rq3o&triedRedirect=true
- Shared 28 October 2025, 1 upvote, 0 comments

DeFi has evolved across crypto cycles by condensing traditional finance into onchain protocols built from tokens, pools, and vaults, and understanding any token means tracing the wrappers built on top of it. Ethena's USDe, with a $12bn market cap as of 2025/10/22, serves as an example, since staking it, splitting it on Pendle, and depositing into Morpho markets and vaults create extended wrappers. The article says delta-neutral strategies like Ethena operate at about 101% collateralization, versus about 270% for Dai. Aave and Compound launched pooled money markets in 2019, and trading pools earn fees of 0.05% to 1% of volume.

## 9. Vibe Coding a Batch Swap App using 0x, Dune, and EIP5792/7702

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Vibe-Coding-a-Batch-Swap-App-using-0x-Dune-and-EIP57927702?index=0x68b1ba4270c7fb37eb014bc9d273fcbcd8ea310243cc8618f01311be59acf570c87479fd
- Source: https://read.cryptodatabytes.com/p/vibe-coding-a-batch-swap-app-using?isFreemail=true&post_id=172123670&publication_id=1205290&r=3rq3o&triedRedirect=true
- Shared 29 August 2025, 1 upvote, 0 comments

The article describes how the author built a batch token swap app using a Herd "trail" that combines Dune's SIM balances API with 0x swap contracts, with the app vibe coded in v0 and Cursor. The trail uses the 0x aggregator for swaps, with USDC hardcoded as the buy token and users choosing the sell token and amount, and Dune's balances API supplies the wallet's tokens, balances and USD values. For batching, the app calls the trail once per selected token and sends the swaps together through viem's sendCalls and waitForCallsStatus, using EIP-7702 by default with an EIP-5792 fallback for wallets that lack it. The author says the app took less than half an hour to build.

## 10. A Guide to Solana for Ethereum Analysts

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/A-Guide-to-Solana-for-Ethereum-Analysts?index=0x683ad36a12cd2cc0e2f75f625fd64527626c63a63f1bc91ea5adc7326300418d829bb635
- Source: https://read.cryptodatabytes.com/p/a-guide-to-solana-for-ethereum-analysts
- Shared 31 May 2025, 1 upvote, 0 comments

This guide maps Ethereum (EVM) concepts to their Solana counterparts for analysts, covering transactions, contract patterns and protocol equivalents. It explains that Solana blocks are confirmed every 400ms in "slots," that a lamport is the smallest SOL unit with 9 decimals, and that the flat fee is 5000 lamports per signature. Smart contracts are called "programs," transaction data is organized as nested "instructions," and gas is replaced by "compute units." The guide also lists protocol counterparts, such as Uniswap corresponding to Orca Whirlpools, Lido to stake pools like Marinade Finance and Jito Sol, and Etherscan to Solscan and Solana.fm.

## 11. How to Understand and Query Farcaster Data (Casts, Users, Channels, and Frames)

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/How-to-Understand-and-Query-Farcaster-Data-Casts-Users-Channels-and-Frames?index=0x65bdfe17ba800e4623fc110519fe4678c67d339d7be75668b9f3dd6611a31ebc9af892e2
- Source: https://read.cryptodatabytes.com/p/how-to-understand-and-query-farcaster
- Shared 3 February 2024, 1 upvote, 0 comments

This guide explains Farcaster's data structures and how to query them through Dune and Neynar, and it says Dune is the right choice for joining onchain activity to Farcaster tables while Neynar suits building apps or bots. Dune gets its Farcaster tables from Neynar every 12 hours, and Neynar runs its own hub. The guide says Farcaster has three onchain contracts on Optimism acting as registries for ids, storage and keys, and that the bulk of actual Farcaster data (profiles, casts, channels, reactions, links and verifications) is stored on hubs. Clients such as Warpcast store custom data like private messages, frame actions and warps that are not published to hubs.

## 12. Basic wizard guide to Dune SQL and Ethereum data analytics

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Basic-wizard-guide-to-Dune-SQL-and-Ethereum-data-analytics?index=0x657c1586c8b081f9ba6bd854f6cf7345dde6434e43e1716913df194c1f5d3b13dc77fe9c
- Source: https://read.cryptodatabytes.com/p/a-basic-wizard-guide-to-dune-sql
- Shared 15 December 2023, 1 upvote, 0 comments

This guide introduces the basic concepts needed for analysis in Dune SQL on Ethereum and other EVM chains, presenting it as a first step for beginners. It explains how raw transactions, traces and logs relate to one another, how decoded tables are built from contract ABIs, and how spellbook and community datasets are structured. It also covers core SQL clauses and types, and advises filtering on time and joining on unique hash or ID columns as the main optimization tip.