Top crypto stories of week 9, 2025
Mon 24 February to Sun 2 March 2025
The 20 top stories on Kiwi News from Mon 24 February to Sun 2 March 2025, ranked by upvotes, comments and clicks, with 46 comments in total. Most-shared sources: x.com, hackmd.io, blog.ethereum.org.
Text under a title is an AI summary of the linked article.
- @redphonecrypto: 10 key insights from ETHDenver on crypto, AI, and future (x.com)
Redphonecrypto lists ten takeaways from ETHDenver, centering on a view that crypto, AI, and traditional finance are converging and accelerating. The post argues that AI lets individuals build their own businesses instead of working decades in corporate jobs, and that blockchains could become "keepers of truth" as AI makes fakes easy to produce. It also says Bitcoin came up more than expected, that projects holding treasuries kept for SEC battles can now spend on building because of the changing regulatory situation, and that AI should integrate more directly into the crypto tech stack.
- A new chapter in the infinite garden (blog.ethereum.org)
Aya Miyaguchi announces she will step down as Executive Director of the Ethereum Foundation (EF) and become its President, a role that lets her continue supporting EF's institutional relationships and expand its vision and culture. She writes that the decision was made a year ago and frames EF's role as upholding Ethereum's values rather than controlling every domain, which she calls "subtraction" and "stewardship, not control." The post cites examples such as stewarding All Core Dev calls, promoting client diversity, supporting R&D interop retreats, and running Devcon, which she describes as a network of independent yet interconnected communities.
- Crypto Design Club (cryptodesign.club)
- Welcoming a new EF leadership structure (blog.ethereum.org)
The Ethereum Foundation has announced a new leadership structure with Hsiao-Wei Wang and Tomasz Stańczak as co-Executive Directors, effective March 17th. Wang previously served as a core researcher at the Foundation for seven years and was a key contributor to the Ethereum beacon chain. Stańczak led the team building the execution client Nethermind, which the announcement says has grown into one of the largest in the Ethereum ecosystem, and he is in the process of transitioning out of his CEO position there. The Foundation says the pair will ensure Ethereum's growth advances core values such as open source, permissionless global collaboration, privacy and security.
- Safe{Wallet} statement on targeted attack on Bybit (x.com)
- @MetaMask: Announcing major wallet UI/UX overhaul and industry innovations (xcancel.com)
- Bybit, Gnosis, and Cold Storage (xcancel.com)
- Daily discussion thread 2025-02-26 (hackmd.io)
- OGimage.gallery (ogimage.gallery)
OGimage.gallery is a curated collection of Open Graph images, which are the preview graphics shared when web pages are linked. The site organizes its entries into categories such as Animated, App, Creative, Finance, Food, Health, Portfolios, Resources, SaaS, and Stores, and it can also be browsed by site. The listing shows many named examples, including entries from Apple, OpenAI, Vercel, Stripe, Shopify, and Cash App, along with links to an extension, resources, and a submission page.
- What's New with Lens? (bankless.com)
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.
- grow the pie: applications dashboard (growthepie.xyz)
- Daily discussion thread 2025-02-24 (hackmd.io)
- Results of the “Farcaster 2026” writing contest (paragraph.xyz)
Kiwi Updates announced the results of its "Farcaster 2026" writing contest, which received over 40 submissions across a Popular Vote track and a Jury Vote track. Popular Vote winners were determined by upvotes on Kiwi, with top prizes of 0.3 ETH going to bradq.eth's "Growth Is About People, Story, & Onboarding" and pierrepauze.eth's "Why Farcaster should learn from Voldemort." In the Jury Vote track, judged by Mac, Chris, Jihad and Six, tombeck.eth's "Farcaster is a car" took first place and 0.5 ETH. Over 30 other essays were not featured in the recap, and a full list is linked.
- Opening a new chapter (github.com)
The author announces they are joining Etherealize as a cofounder, an organization whose mission is to help onboard the world to Ethereum, working alongside Vivek Raman. The post argues that the regulatory obstacle has been lifted and that Ethereum is the only environment promising open global access, efficiency, interoperability, and composability in finance, identity, and other areas of digital life in a neutral, decentralized way. The author says they intend to build a new Ethereum institution guided by "Real World Ethereum," spanning real adoption, regulation, ecosystem development, and R&D across L1, L2, and the application layer. The author will serve as a bridge from Ethereum back into the real world, while Raman bridges the real world into Ethereum.
- Could IPFS have prevented the Bybit hack? (blog.ipfs.tech)
Interplanetary Shipyard argues that IPFS, through local verification of frontend code, could have served as a preventive defense against the Bybit hack, which caused a loss of $1.4 billion. The article says hackers gained access to the AWS S3 bucket hosting the Safe frontend and uploaded a malicious version days before the hack, targeting the Bybit cold wallet, though it is unclear how access was gained. The post notes that the Safe frontend was unverified, that multisig owners signed a malicious transaction, and that the Safe smart contract lacked additional approval layers, and it says IPFS mainly addresses the first point. The article also recommends tools such as ipfs-deploy-action and publishing release CIDs, and states that IPFS is not a silver bullet.
- @koeppelmann: three key improvements for Safe after Bybit hack (x.com)
Koeppelmann outlines three consequences for Safe from the Bybit hack: ending blind signing on hardware wallets, creating an institutional offering, and building Safenet faster. He says hardware wallet support for Safe is currently poor, apart from a few notable exceptions, and that recommended hardware providers that display the "safeTx" being signed should be a top priority. He argues that users holding hundreds of millions or billions should not use the same default setup as everyone else, which would require an institutional offering. Safenet would keep Safes in full self-custody while by default requiring an external processor to confirm transactions, so a malicious transaction signed by the owners could still be rejected.
- @Alchemy clarifies platform scope at Ethereum Denver (ad) (x.com)
- Daily discussion thread 2025-02-25 (hackmd.io)
- On the origin of "make something wonderful" (stevejobsarchive.com)
Steve Jobs believed that making something with great care expresses respect and admiration for humanity, and that idea anchored his approach to business throughout his life, according to the Steve Jobs Archive. A clip from an internal Apple employee meeting on October 23, 2007, shows Jobs marveling that people wanted $24 billion worth of products the staff had thought up and made. The Archive uses the idea as the title of its first book and as inspiration for its Fellowship program.
- Daily discussion thread 2025-02-28 (hackmd.io)