# Top stories on Kiwi News, week 12 2025

Mon 17 to Sun 23 March 2025
Page: https://news.kiwistand.com/weekly/2025-W12

The 20 top stories on Kiwi News from Mon 17 to Sun 23 March 2025, ranked by upvotes, comments and clicks, with 56 comments in total. Most-shared sources: hackmd.io, warpcast.com.

Summaries are AI summaries of the linked article.

## 1. The Blockchain is not Permanent Free Storage - Rhea Myers      

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/The-Blockchain-is-not-Permanent-Free-Storage-Rhea-Myers?index=0x67dc31e33e94fdac2a7b3f8a7d1d8bd6f97be9881f823aaa30e6a312c277e6ae5ed6166b
- Source: https://rhea.art/2025/03/19/the-blockchain-is-not-permanent-free-storage
- Submitted by misha, 6 upvotes, 10 comments

Rhea Myers argues that the blockchain is not permanent free storage and should be used mainly as an anchor for data stored offchain. Myers notes that Satoshi Nakamoto's Bitcoin Whitepaper describes a timestamp server, and that spam transactions storing non-payment data were historically regarded as bloat that imposes costs on other users. Myers says that storage on a chain is only economically rational while the assets held on it are worth more than the cost of downloading the chain, and that low storage fees build up a debt someone must eventually pay. Myers recommends storing only identifiers, account references, and hashes onchain.

## 2. Daily discussion thread 2025-03-21

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Daily-discussion-thread-2025-03-21?index=0x67dd1c0f0a51d9a25672affee018d28eedf8d66a5931027bbfacd6a490d2009f6bd6da7d
- Source: https://hackmd.io/QaMCfYaBQqSnwIAOgCDXDA?date=2025-03-21
- Submitted by macbudkowski.eth, 7 upvotes, 9 comments

## 3. Daily discussion thread 2025-03-19

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Daily-discussion-thread-2025-03-19?index=0x67da81355f4a07c9d291ff6a6970e370d8fffc9e22d720bc3874d7c5157bdffc6c8a9a38
- Source: https://hackmd.io/QaMCfYaBQqSnwIAOgCDXDA?date=2025-03-19
- Submitted by macbudkowski.eth, 5 upvotes, 8 comments

## 4. Ethereum Must Choose: Asset or Platform, Says EY’s Paul Brody

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Ethereum-Must-Choose-Asset-or-Platform-Says-EYs-Paul-Brody?index=0x67dc911e073cbafc865a494874d063e98d241f3c934d0664c4de3c8ace3a1492201e446c
- Source: https://thedefiant.io/news/people/ethereum-must-choose-asset-or-platform-says-ey-s-paul-brody
- Submitted by misha, 6 upvotes, 3 comments

## 5.  Kiwi News on Giveth

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Kiwi-News-on-Giveth?index=0x67d9e54da5ff286649610d8d6d8fa13a5ccedec32b9e34d36007f8d86d085487f51f6f6a
- Source: https://giveth.io/project/kiwi-news
- Submitted by tim, 5 upvotes, 1 comment

## 6. The Daily Gwei: Retail market is saturated

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/The-Daily-Gwei-Retail-market-is-saturated?index=0x67d91830cb21e63a49c6059acce58b7ff2ad715740fb56b9e878bc79409ad6364f0a557a
- Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=1428s&v=W7RF4ux7XV0
- Submitted by rvolz.eth, 2 upvotes, 4 comments

## 7. Form S-1 Canary PENGU ETF

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Form-S-1-Canary-PENGU-ETF?index=0x67dc3581a18c42ecccf60b5e74e75b0633fb946d4eadb7bb7def35325f47a3b30fe5ada3
- Source: https://www.streetinsider.com/SEC+Filings/Form+S-1+Canary+PENGU+ETF/24527617.html
- Submitted by tim, 3 upvotes, 5 comments

## 8. Daily discussion thread 2025-03-20

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Daily-discussion-thread-2025-03-20?index=0x67dbd0c0ac404c83082f80d2df6c6bada7bebb2f18ac6c4645dfa36f14c6369f21d80836
- Source: https://hackmd.io/QaMCfYaBQqSnwIAOgCDXDA?date=2025-03-20
- Submitted by macbudkowski.eth, 4 upvotes, 2 comments

## 9. Daily discussion thread 2025-03-17

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Daily-discussion-thread-2025-03-17?index=0x67d7daebeac3ad457fc04f4e04052fe97c89ac6580b65bada8d8fee23381e369d67ac7d3
- Source: https://hackmd.io/QaMCfYaBQqSnwIAOgCDXDA?date=2025-03-17
- Submitted by macbudkowski.eth, 3 upvotes, 3 comments

## 10. Next Gen Tokens

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Next-Gen-Tokens?index=0x67d937b675e727aa3addf3d7411547fffd45ac4be2586fe1b0dfbcdca05342a828013355
- Source: https://tokenomicsexplained.com/next-gen-tokens
- Submitted by macbudkowski.eth, 3 upvotes, 0 comments

Essay argues that tokenization is the next stage of finance, following how ETFs reshaped the stock market, and that DeFi has already built many of the tools needed for it. The author states that ETFs grew from about 20% of NYSE total market cap in the early 1990s to a combined 40% for mutual funds and ETFs today, and that US market cap rose from 36.7% to 208% of GDP. Robinhood CEO Vladimir Tenev and BlackRock CEO Larry Fink are quoted supporting tokenization of assets, with Fink describing instant settlement and a single general ledger. The piece also covers yield-bearing index vaults, Index Coop's leveraged ratio tokens, and delta-neutral positions built with borrowing and funding-rate carry.

## 11. @vgr: rethinking "it's time to build" and the myth of builders

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/vgr-rethinking-its-time-to-build-and-the-myth-of-builders?index=0x67d7d95153f0dd5c3295ab0306bdd3adf385a0ecfdf5e0fc4c16c0a018d78ad81112da45
- Source: https://warpcast.com/vgr/0xd2f2f3a4
- Submitted by rvolz.eth, 2 upvotes, 3 comments

Venkatesh Rao (@vgr) argues that the idea behind Marc Andreessen's "it's time to build" essay (pmarca) is incoherent, because building cannot be cleanly separated from the destruction it involves. He says a society-wide call to build would at best raise the status of builders and at worst unleash destruction far larger than any building, with the building itself mostly naive "pure creation," such as doomed Xanadu-style projects. His alternative is to recognize that building is only one aptitude among many, and to treat the end of a finite game as a prompt to improvise a new one through play-testing rather than slogan-led missions.

## 12. ELI5: Ethereum Validator Exits

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/ELI5-Ethereum-Validator-Exits?index=0x67d8ad233eba051fc8eeb6abe4f0b9dc742a45c921e391b53cbea211894f72a6b34bdb3a
- Source: https://hackmd.io/@mikeneuder/eli5-ethereum-validator-exits
- Submitted by 0xEB40...2eE7, 3 upvotes, 1 comment

Mike Neuder and Mallesh Pai explain how Ethereum validator exits currently limit withdrawal rates and how the upcoming Pectra hardfork changes this, with the authors stating that the changes are very small. Under today's rules, a voluntary exit passes through a FIFO exit queue that allows 16 exits per epoch as of March 2025, followed by a 256-epoch (27-hour) withdrawability delay, then a validator sweep that processes 16 withdrawals per block and takes about 9.1 days per cycle. The article says the exit queue exists to preserve economic security, since a validator that could exit instantly could attempt a double spend. Under Pectra, the exit queue is limited to 256 ETH per epoch, equivalent to eight 32 ETH validators, and validators can opt out of the sweep by using a 0x02 withdrawal credential prefix to compound rewards.

## 13. Daily discussion thread 2025-03-18

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Daily-discussion-thread-2025-03-18?index=0x67d9294ffbb0a5900d9f2e3c45060383b692365a7395b3e42b413574b067fc36a0334c68
- Source: https://hackmd.io/QaMCfYaBQqSnwIAOgCDXDA?date=2025-03-18
- Submitted by macbudkowski.eth, 3 upvotes, 2 comments

## 14. Farcaster protocol user stats

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Farcaster-protocol-user-stats?index=0x67d94127b71bd994c558ddaecf10345264c75ca1f5c321cdeb2dae819e796ae1057d3e91
- Source: https://warpcast.com/dwr.eth/0x502caba4
- Submitted by macbudkowski.eth, 3 upvotes, 0 comments

## 15. A0T Token Clarification

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/A0T-Token-Clarification?index=0x67d91258f428d28f5fbe23f09345a6c5496752436b6ed9ca0064adec066006b835506673
- Source: https://youtu.be/5mfRpay7cW8?si=goJb-3clH-YzwRfY
- Submitted by rvolz.eth, 1 upvote, 3 comments

## 16. Why is this game the best personality and vibes eval for LLMs?

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Why-is-this-game-the-best-personality-and-vibes-eval-for-LLMs?index=0x67d82db96838f238ca7a35f49184a5d935330fe4abefa8730e4b27fe323c00e63f8eddba
- Source: https://banteg.xyz/posts/slay-the-princess
- Submitted by pedrovilela.eth, 3 upvotes, 0 comments

The author argues that Slay the Princess, a Ren'Py visual novel, is a strong personality and vibes evaluation for LLMs, and describes how they connected Claude to play it as a character named Clawed. The integration hooks the game's dialogue log and menu handler, sends the dialogue and choices to a server that queries the model, and has the model's choices voiced with Kokoro-82M. In a first run streamed on Twitch on March 14, 2025, Claude completed the full game, though it did not recognize how its own actions shaped the game world, and it repeatedly took the blade "to be prepared." Claude also consistently sided with the cosmic entity over the Narrator or the Princess.

## 17. Supporting Ether Guild

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Supporting-Ether-Guild?index=0x67d89d6a768c0ca7955840b89374a0c78a9245fcc5a406d423955406d1d4d342024b341d
- Source: https://paragraph.xyz/@etherguild/supporting-ether-guild
- Submitted by pedrovilela.eth, 3 upvotes, 0 comments

Ether Guild is a new non-profit that aims to fund initiatives supporting ETH, with ethismoney.xyz as its first initiative. The group says its mission is to educate people about ETH's value proposition and how it fits into the Ethereum economy. It has opened four donation tiers, with the top two tiers granting access to an additional Discord channel. Initial funds will retroactively cover legal and development expenses for the non-profit and ethismoney.xyz, and it is applying for 501(c)(3) status, which limits large anonymous donations.

## 18. devex does not matter. it is now ai-devex that matters.

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/devex-does-not-matter-it-is-now-ai-devex-that-matters?index=0x67d9bd4d664d3629dd6bb07f3568b59fc4ac414926b5f54768ffe5647f3171d1dc7cda72
- Source: https://x.com/skylar_eth/status/1902064253051568428
- Submitted by macbudkowski.eth, 3 upvotes, 0 comments

The post argues that developer experience now depends on how easily AI can understand documentation and produce working apps from it, which the author calls "ai-devex." The author suggests that every library, framework and tool add an llms.txt file addressing common mistakes AI models make. The suggested process is to attempt to build an app from the docs, note what the AI consistently gets wrong, and then fix the docs or add AI-specific context, such as a snippet developers can paste into Cursor at the start of each project. The post names Solidity, scaffold-eth, Hardhat, Vyper and Foundry as projects that should do this.

## 19. Deno Web3 tools

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Deno-Web3-tools?index=0x67dbd3fcd89f89b62ac59b160e875c70fae7251f2b3897338fe2e780f1cbc49149e6ecca
- Source: https://github.com/deno-web3
- Submitted by tim, 2 upvotes, 1 comment

This page is a collection of Deno modules for the web3 and blockchain ecosystem, presenting featured projects and repositories under the deno-web3 organization. The featured projects include solc, a Solidity compiler binding for Deno, sol_build, a Deno CLI and API for compiling Solidity smart contracts, and zrx, an unofficial 0x Protocol API client. Other listed items are slate, an unofficial Slate API client for the Filecoin-based storage system, and estuary, an unofficial API client for Estuary, a custom IPFS and Filecoin node. An idea listed for future work is eth_node, a local Ethereum blockchain for Deno.

## 20. How the Biggest Crypto Heist in History Went Down

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/How-the-Biggest-Crypto-Heist-in-History-Went-Down?index=0x67d7d7756ce32946deaac8303d2ee8bbc5a6823c0e7ac46d17d616d921668d1ae398b01e
- Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/technology/bybit-crypto-hack-north-korea.html
- Submitted by tim, 3 upvotes, 1 comment