Top crypto stories of week 22, 2025
Mon 26 May to Sun 1 June 2025
The 20 top stories on Kiwi News from Mon 26 May to Sun 1 June 2025, ranked by upvotes, comments and clicks, with 43 comments in total. Most-shared sources: farcaster.xyz, x.com.
Text under a title is an AI summary of the linked article.
- @timdaub: Kiwi News now supports direct Farcaster upvotes (farcaster.xyz)
- Still here (redphone.substack.com)
- @mani: 1/4 Farcaster Pro users have ≤ 10 followers, median Neynar score is 0.5 (farcaster.xyz)
- Why Distribution Comes First in 2025 (research.auditless.com)
Drawing on the article's argument, the author contends that founders should build distribution, not just product, because distribution is now more important and more defensible than product innovation. The article says customer acquisition costs keep rising, that Patrick Campbell sold ProfitWell to Paddle, and that a strong brand built on trust and consistent storytelling lasts longer than product advantages that AI-assisted engineering can erode. It also says VC firms have become media companies, offering distribution through podcasts, YouTube channels, communities and conferences, and it advises founders to build their own brand and expect to spend more time on distribution than they would have 5-10 years ago.
- Bad Art - Draw, Derive and Publish art on Lens (art.lens.box)
- Solana founder Raj doxxing is crazy (farcaster.xyz)
- Letter to Arc members 2025 (browsercompany.substack.com)
- Lyn Alden: Nothing stops this train (youtube.com)
- Antimemetics: Why Some Ideas Resist Spreading (darkforest.metalabel.com)
- Trump Media Announces $2.5B Deal to Create a Bitcoin Treasury (watcher.guru)
- The Dawn of Infinite Code (docs.google.com)
The author's central claim is that AI will drive the marginal cost of software toward zero, so that software as a distinct product container fades and only capability remains. The essay compares this to YouTube's 2005 launch, which showed content had become too cheap to meter, and says prompts now produce prototypes that once needed a team and a sprint. It argues that distribution will be handled by algorithms, as TikTok and Spotify already decide what people watch and hear, and that users will reward speed and convenience over transparency. It also predicts that competitive value will move toward compute, personal context and earned trust, with newspapers and CDs cited as earlier containers that gave way.
- vitalik.world (vitalik.world)
- @dwr.eth: Farcaster Pro sells out 10,000 units in under 6 hours (farcaster.xyz)
- @chaskin.eth explores the programmable creator economy (farcaster.xyz)
- @kimmonismus: soccer is out, robot mma is the future (x.com)
- @naruto11eth: Why Solana Conference impressed me more than Ethereum events (x.com)
- Circle Launches Initial Public Offering (businesswire.com)
- @0xdiid: Onchain art is boring, lazy, and reductive - here's the solution (xcancel.com)
- Circle files for IPO on NYSE, aims to go public (twitter.com)
- Safe wallet introduces signing UX v2 with improved transparency (x.com)