Top crypto stories of week 7, 2025
Mon 10 to Sun 16 February 2025
The 20 top stories on Kiwi News from Mon 10 to Sun 16 February 2025, ranked by upvotes, comments and clicks, with 70 comments in total. Most-shared sources: paragraph.xyz, hackmd.io, warpcast.com.
Text under a title is an AI summary of the linked article.
- Why Farcaster needs Extended Reactions (paragraph.xyz)
Extended Reactions (ERs) are proposed as a way to add stronger value signals to Farcaster, promoting high-quality content over engagement farming. The author describes ERs as interface elements, similar to Cast Actions, that users can install, act on, and use to display data in casts, with actions that can depend on conditions. Examples include a DAO channel where up/down votes are weighted by DAO tokens held, a channel where only Hypersub holders can give 5-star reviews, and a spam-likelihood percentage based on user flags. The piece argues that, unlike the simple like and recast buttons of legacy social media, such reactions would let communities and developers build new primitives for growth.
- Farcaster 2026: A Planetary Onchain Economy (paragraph.xyz)
This essay argues that Farcaster can grow without losing its decentralised character by becoming the basis of a "planetary onchain economy," an onchain-native society that is permissionless and atomised. The author, who calls the Farcaster ecosystem a trend toward an emerging re-globalised society, points to Farcaster's builder and creator communities and to the planned integration of Farcaster mini-apps into Coinbase Wallet, announced in February 2025 by Jesse Pollak, John Granata and Dan Romero. The author compares this with WeChat Pay, Alipay's mini-programs and Line's super app, and argues that privacy concerns should not stop wallets from adding social features.
- The Time to Build a Better Social Network for Ethereum Is Now (paragraph.xyz)
The author argues that Ethereum needs a social platform built on consensus rather than outrage, and proposes an Ethereum-focused Farcaster client that uses Polis to surface agreement. The post points to Polis, an open-source tool Taiwan has used for public deliberation, which has no reply button and lets people vote agree, disagree, or pass on statements. It cites a poll in which 60% of Farcaster respondents said the Ethereum community is divided, and it proposes pulling in discussions from Ethereum Magicians and ETH Research as voteable statements.
- The Chaotic Moral Compass Accelerates (rileybeans.mirror.xyz)
- Protocol Reader (summerofprotocols.com)
In fall 2022, after the change of ownership at Twitter, a significant minority of users, perhaps several million, looked for an alternative technology paradigm rather than another product or platform. The article says they found a class of Twitter alternatives that describe themselves as protocols. Most other departing users, it says, moved to products such as Meta's Threads, Substack or LinkedIn, or retreated to private online spaces.
- @polynya: crypto's descent into greed and nihilism (warpcast.com)
- Post to Earn: The New Farcaster Meta of 2026 (paragraph.xyz)
Chasing Blossoms argues that Farcaster's crypto "legos" now let everyday posters get paid for content, something web2 social networks generally don't offer. Warpcast is expanding a rewards program to ensure 1,000 people a week get paid in USDC, and several channels pay casters too. Cura, from the team behind OpenRank, lets channel hosts automatically reward what their community likes, while Rounds.xyz lets hosts set contests with their own rewards, cadence, and judges. The /anime-manga channel uses subscription revenue to reward casters who get engagement each week, and Moxie rewards likes, recasts, and comments with Creator Coins.
- A Libertarian Island Dream in Honduras Is Now an $11 Billion Nightmare (archive.is)
- Polymarket illegal in Poland (igamingpolska.pl)
- Jesse Pollak on "Base selling ETH" controversies (x.com)
Jesse Pollak argues that purity tests such as whether Base holds all the ETH it earns are a distraction that hurts Ethereum, and that the priority should be building products people love and sustainable economies. He says Base's goal is to bring the world onchain, funded by a sustainable economic engine that generates revenue and reinvests it in salaries, grants, acquisitions, infrastructure, and about 15% of revenue to public goods funding via Optimism. Base also holds over 100K ETH, which he describes as a privilege earned through delivering value. He acknowledges its reporting is not as transparent as it could be, since quarterly reporting follows the structure of a public US company, and says Base is working to move more operations onchain.
- Daily discussion thread 2025-02-11 (hackmd.io)
- 2025 Ethereum Events (docs.google.com)
A 2025 calendar of Ethereum events, credited to @nethan_eth and last updated May 2, runs from Zugrama India in January to DevConnect in Buenos Aires, November 17 to 22. Entries include ETHDenver in Denver, February 23 to March 2, and EthCC in Cannes, June 30 to July 3. Events that are not Ethereum-specific, such as TOKEN2049 Dubai and NFT NYC, are marked with an asterisk.
- Introducing AX: Why Agent Experience Matters (biilmann.blog)
Netlify argues that software companies should deliberately design an "agent experience" (AX) for AI agents, which it describes as the holistic experience agents have as users of a product or platform. The article says computers are becoming agents that perceive their environment and act autonomously, and that tools hard for LLMs and agents to use will lose power. It cites Netlify's ChatGPT GPT integration, which lets ChatGPT's models deploy projects to Netlify, with more than 1,000 sites created from ChatGPT every day. It also contrasts closed approaches, such as Google Workspace's Gemini buttons and Microsoft's Copilot agents, with an open agent ecosystem that the article advocates.
- Who is Dan Romero? (Farcaster Essay) (docs.google.com)
- Ethereum Dashboards (ethereumdashboards.com)
This page is a directory of 169 dashboards for the Ethereum ecosystem, grouped under tags such as Network Health, Staking, Defi, MEV, and Blobs. Entries highlighted include Ethereum Uptime, which states Ethereum has had 100% uptime since July 30, 2015, and Forkcast, which tracks network upgrades. Other listed tools cover staking validator costs, MEV-Boost relays and builders, L2 fees, and stablecoin yields.
- What's wrong with the crypto podcasting space? (xcancel.com)
- How to start a scam meme coin (and what to avoid) (warpcast.com)
- Daily discussion thread 2025-02-13 (hackmd.io)
- Built on Ethereum Badge (ethbadge.xyz)
- Daily discussion thread 2025-02-10 (hackmd.io)