# Top stories on Kiwi News, week 20 2025

Mon 12 to Sun 18 May 2025
Page: https://news.kiwistand.com/weekly/2025-W20

The 20 top stories on Kiwi News from Mon 12 to Sun 18 May 2025, ranked by upvotes, comments and clicks, with 18 comments in total. Most-shared sources: x.com, xcancel.com, vxtwitter.com.

Summaries are AI summaries of the linked article.

## 1. Just fucking use HTML

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Just-fucking-use-HTML?index=0x6826d4887d0fba1565bfe2e03e9c02251ee478c58137fc84f5828f2de9466ebb39f8c8bf
- Source: https://justfuckingusehtml.com
- Submitted by misha, 8 upvotes, 2 comments

The article argues that plain HTML is a better choice than JavaScript frameworks for most web work, because it loads faster, needs no build or deployment process, and keeps working without maintenance. It supports this with examples: a native button, bold, underline, and heading elements, expandable sections, popovers and dialogs that need no framework, and the claim that an element's id creates a JavaScript variable automatically. The text also says AI tools can generate HTML, and it dismisses frameworks as overengineered. Its tone is profane and insulting toward developers who use frameworks.

## 2. Announcing the Trillion Dollar Security Initiative | Ethereum Foundation Blog

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Announcing-the-Trillion-Dollar-Security-Initiative-or-Ethereum-Foundation-Blog?index=0x682492841930482e9a43b580d882c4aae91b06b10a276b169010628a18f02818d59cead0
- Source: https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/05/14/trillion-dollar-security
- Submitted by tim, 5 upvotes, 1 comment

The Ethereum Foundation has announced the Trillion Dollar Security initiative, an ecosystem-wide effort to upgrade Ethereum's security so that billions of individuals and institutions can store large amounts of value onchain. The initiative has three components: mapping security strengths and attack vectors across Ethereum's stack, executing improvements in the focus areas identified, and communicating more clearly about Ethereum's security. Fredrik Svantes (Protocol Security Lead) and Josh Stark (EF management team) are the initial co-chairs, and the foundation is collecting input from users and security firms through a form and at trilliondollarsecurity@ethereum.org.

## 3. Bitwise Is Hiring Engineers

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Bitwise-Is-Hiring-Engineers?index=0x68223c337caaab91bd896a707020cc2d16d9b707331047ed7625462596a4623c96c4f33c
- Source: https://jobs.lever.co/bitwiseinvestments/f1e125b7-b26f-4ca4-a702-0c88a6e09e69
- Submitted by alec.eth, 5 upvotes, 0 comments

## 4. Multiverse Finance

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Multiverse-Finance?index=0x682247236704f7e324fc51e503c8e49330a57b10347276461e2982a3c2230c9b43eb26f1
- Source: https://www.paradigm.xyz/2025/05/multiverse-finance
- Submitted by tim, 4 upvotes, 0 comments

Multiverse Finance is a proposed design that splits the financial system into parallel universes, or "verses," each defined by an event such as whether Jerome Powell is fired. Tokens tied to one verse, such as notFiredUSD, can be used as collateral to borrow other assets in the same verse, because all tokens in a verse disappear together when its outcome resolves. The paper describes a simple version that could be built on mainnet by letting conditional tokens for the same outcome be borrowed and lent against each other on an Aave-like protocol.

## 5. Pectra Pages

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Pectra-Pages?index=0x6825f9d1866c8fc728bc074df9a1021aafcaf0796352cb65db2f275038e6d5fb1b10e241
- Source: https://stateful.mirror.xyz/XY5jpORV36JXS-qhSzIgGj_S8b5Yoh2rJKmhAvMJOTc
- Submitted by pedrovilela.eth, 4 upvotes, 0 comments

## 6. WalletConnect Bets Big on AI

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/WalletConnect-Bets-Big-on-AI?index=0x6824c63d3c225c4f81917eb3b6731a2f0ab7592254897314f648cac83edf9780331d9425
- Source: https://walletconnect.network/blog/walletconnect-bets-big-on-ai-and-mobile-adoption
- Submitted by misha, 4 upvotes, 1 comment

WalletConnect argues that its Smart Sessions standard will replace the constant wallet approval popups of crypto with delegated permissions, letting users connect once, set rules, and let apps or AI agents transact within predefined guardrails. The article says Smart Sessions could support automated trading strategies, autonomous onchain games, and subscription payments. It also describes a planned model in which transaction fees would be paid in WalletConnect's native token, $WCT, which the article presents as a new source of demand for the token. The article ties the approach to institutions using WalletConnect-powered custodial wallets and to Apple's recent App Store policy changes, which it says give mobile apps more freedom to guide users toward external wallets.

## 7. @jaivinwylde: how we spent $1m on travel with VC funding

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/jaivinwylde-how-we-spent-dollar1m-on-travel-with-VC-funding?index=0x6826e6bbe8c9de4cd9197fa4f054afeb5926fa8f3392bd9bf4886adcf2bedf550a1590ed
- Source: https://x.com/jaivinwylde/status/1922893404142190637
- Submitted by tim, 2 upvotes, 3 comments

## 8. em dash conspiracy

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/em-dash-conspiracy?index=0x682204ef19c29c0373f99784e6cb75676269d13a0f0a3e3a93c4d12a737d81ef6b300aa0
- Source: https://github.com/v4nn4/em-dash-conspiracy/tree/main
- Submitted by macbudkowski.eth, 5 upvotes, 1 comment

This GitHub repository tracks em dash (—) usage across tech and startup subreddits over the past year, a stylistic marker often associated with AI-generated writing. The data was generated on May 4, 2025, using Reddit's API to fetch the top 1,000 posts from the past year in each subreddit. The README warns that this introduces time bias, since recent posts are underrepresented unless they quickly gained high scores, and says the chart should be treated as a signal rather than proof.

## 9. @S4mmyEth: Retail interest rising with misspelled Ethereum searches

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/S4mmyEth-Retail-interest-rising-with-misspelled-Ethereum-searches?index=0x6821ee324dd6f1824340f79d4043408b34c58110b481d537ca41208c9c28a1fe3d00b698
- Source: https://xcancel.com/s4mmyeth/status/1921876784506634732
- Submitted by misha, 4 upvotes, 1 comment

## 10. CRYPTOPUNKS JOIN THE NODE FOUNDATION

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/CRYPTOPUNKS-JOIN-THE-NODE-FOUNDATION?index=0x68235405b23e4abab22020989e606df05c9190dfbbaec139d50cf319259241fbbf8a0720
- Source: https://nodefoundation.com/blog/punks-join-node
- Submitted by tim, 4 upvotes, 1 comment

## 11. EIP-7702 Authorizations

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/EIP-7702-Authorizations?index=0x6821a263c915514b5244741fe1cd20f669100e25ae533041857f8ea6a64dd2a4b385889e
- Source: https://etherscan.io/txnauthlist
- Submitted by misha, 4 upvotes, 1 comment

## 12. The Returns to Entrepreneurship by Naval Ravikant

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/The-Returns-to-Entrepreneurship-by-Naval-Ravikant?index=0x6821e6fe3321b4c74a05b714db247b6e9bf676fa4889f146b7b68b4a361815eda596704a
- Source: https://www.founderstribune.org/p/the-returns-to-entrepreneurship-by-naval-ravikant
- Submitted by tim, 3 upvotes, 0 comments

Naval Ravikant argues that modern Internet startups yield bigger and faster returns not because entrepreneurs are smarter or work harder, but because leverage has grown enormously. He contrasts today's costs with earlier ones: setting up a company that once cost $1M to $2M now costs $10K, building a product that cost $5M now costs $250K, and going to market that cost $20M now costs $1M. He points to cheap tools such as Amazon hosting, PayPal payments, and open source code, and to network effects in a market of about three billion people coming online. He concludes that the returns to being smart, young, and skilled have risen sharply, and that the smart are getting richer.

## 13. HQ.xyz is now officially part of the Gnosis ecosystem

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/HQxyz-is-now-officially-part-of-the-Gnosis-ecosystem?index=0x68247bb7ae312143c1e9c94cfa2b4fb3267886815c15647bc0f2eabb5d920155217e9d57
- Source: https://www.hq.xyz/blog-post/headquarters-joins-gnosis
- Submitted by misha, 4 upvotes, 0 comments

## 14. Stables: stables for your everyday payments

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Stables-stables-for-your-everyday-payments?index=0x682317df7da421a26855065be9fbeb2d425466676c3d7fce8f7c0c1ab810ff1d4e4b5392
- Source: https://stables.money
- Submitted by macbudkowski.eth, 3 upvotes, 1 comment

Stables is a developer-facing API for collecting, converting and moving USDt (Tether's USD stablecoin) in Asia and MENA, marketed as compliant and integrable within an afternoon. The site lists SOC 2 certification, 99.99% uptime and 160+ markets, and says settlement to 150+ countries takes seconds instead of days. Its FAQ describes fiat payouts to 100+ countries via local rails, KYC/KYB and transaction monitoring under one API, and says pricing combines a one-time integration fee, a monthly API minimum and usage-based fees.

## 15. @0xQuit: how leaving my day job for web3 changed everything

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/0xQuit-how-leaving-my-day-job-for-web3-changed-everything?index=0x68259e7fa6bee54ae589807a9dbbb43b4afb85310758810a34d886903546410e57d67fef
- Source: https://vxtwitter.com/0xQuit/status/1922819472680943693
- Submitted by tim, 2 upvotes, 1 comment

## 16. "To be a great BD in crypto all you need to know is this"

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/To-be-a-great-BD-in-crypto-all-you-need-to-know-is-this?index=0x6821b42605abb9d69283eeb1cc7584adee9424fdb060c0ae71b7b9df9dc44a305c3103d4
- Source: https://x.com/tech_mingler/status/1920905174068986071?s=46
- Submitted by macbudkowski.eth, 3 upvotes, 0 comments

## 17. @ki_young_ju: Dark stablecoins could emerge as censorship-resistant alternative

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/kiyoungju-Dark-stablecoins-could-emerge-as-censorship-resistant-alternative?index=0x6821b52990d8d30c8fe3910f6828b61616c40df626d70e867d017ae90a686aca2e680b22
- Source: https://xcancel.com/ki_young_ju/status/1921521574450213293
- Submitted by misha, 2 upvotes, 2 comments

Ki Young Ju argues that dark stablecoins, meaning censorship-resistant alternatives, are likely to emerge as governments move to regulate stablecoins similar to traditional banks. He says stablecoins issued by Tether and Circle have so far been managed by holding cash reserves in banks, and that governments have largely left them alone except to combat money laundering. He suggests regulation could bring automatic tax collection through smart contracts and wallet freezes, pushing users making large international transfers toward alternatives. Two possible routes are named: algorithmic stablecoins not controlled by governments, or stablecoins issued by countries that do not censor transactions. He also suggests USDT could become a dark stablecoin if Tether does not comply with future U.S. government regulations under a Trump administration.

## 18. @tiagosada: World's Orb Mini brings anonymous proof of human to scale

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/tiagosada-Worlds-Orb-Mini-brings-anonymous-proof-of-human-to-scale?index=0x682151b9ee0c2efbc2e795862d08010e019814f63ba5db649a78b98f8ec812b9a7966443
- Source: https://x.com/tiagosada/status/1921718952331559417
- Submitted by tim, 2 upvotes, 3 comments

World's Orb Mini is a planned pocket-sized version of the Orb device that World says will bring anonymous proof of human to a much wider audience. The article says the Orb verifies that a user is a real and unique human by scanning their face with sensors and running AI models on an NVIDIA Jetson, a process it says takes about 30 seconds and needs repeating only every few years. It reports 26 million people have joined the network and 12.5 million have verified at an Orb, and that Orb Mini is expected next year at 10x lower cost, built as an open source module that other companies can integrate.

## 19. British Museum Puts Sculptures of Dürer's 'Rhinoceros' on Bitcoin Blockchain

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/British-Museum-Puts-Sculptures-of-Durers-Rhinoceros-on-Bitcoin-Blockchain?index=0x6825b05e17994deb37f9224b3a19fbb3ae650f384a2a97a6f995c7b326fb81d1b16f86f4
- Source: https://decrypt.co/319750/british-museum-durers-rhinoceros-bitcoin-blockchain
- Submitted by rvolz.eth, 4 upvotes, 0 comments

Asprey Studio, in partnership with the British Museum, is creating 11 sterling silver sculptures based on Albrecht Dürer's 1515 "The Rhinoceros," each sold with a digital inscription on the Bitcoin blockchain. According to a press release shared with Decrypt, the inscription is a "parent/child" record with Asprey Studio and the British Museum as parents and the sculpture as the child, which prevents further additions and serves as a family tree of provenance. Each 40cm solid silver sculpture is produced to order over several months, and buyers receive the digital inscription first. Asprey Studio Chief Creative Officer Ali Walker said the sculptures are a new interpretation and do not turn Dürer's drawing into an NFT, since the original is owned by the museum.

## 20. @Uniswap: global tour to connect with DeFi builders across eight countries

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Uniswap-global-tour-to-connect-with-DeFi-builders-across-eight-countries?index=0x6824af7f446877acec916c1947f703d8772ac00e3adf8812a2c21217d8f395c6691a2ffa
- Source: https://vxtwitter.com/Uniswap/status/1922659370032132235
- Submitted by tim, 3 upvotes, 0 comments