Top crypto stories of week 27, 2025
Mon 30 June to Sun 6 July 2025
The 20 top stories on Kiwi News from Mon 30 June to Sun 6 July 2025, ranked by upvotes, comments and clicks, with 26 comments in total. Most-shared sources: farcaster.xyz, x.com.
Text under a title is an AI summary of the linked article.
- @pichi: The unwritten rules of Farcaster - you've got to contribute (farcaster.xyz)
Writer pichi argues that success on Farcaster depends on contributing, and that the Leaderboard measures the wrong things and should not define a user's worth. Pichi says content will be most noticeable this summer, with an upcoming push for video that may make Farcaster look more like traditional social media with a Web3 backbone. The article also suggests contributing by collecting and curating others' work, building mini apps, building community, or being an enthusiastic participant who gives feedback and joins conversations.
- Content Independence Day: no AI crawl without compensation! (blog.cloudflare.com)
Cloudflare, with a majority of the world's leading publishers and AI companies, is changing its default so that AI crawlers are blocked unless they pay creators for their content, a change the article says takes effect July 1, which it calls Content Independence Day. The article argues that the traditional search-driven deal, in which Google copied content in exchange for traffic, has broken down as AI answers replace clicks. It states that content creators now face 750 times more difficulty getting traffic from OpenAI and 30,000 times more difficulty from Anthropic than from the older Google, compared with the roughly tenfold drop attributed to Google's own changes. Cloudflare says it will next build a marketplace and score content by how much it fills gaps in AI engines' knowledge rather than by traffic.
- @lookonchain: Bitcoin OG with 80,009 BTC wakes up after 14 years, moves $4.35B (x.com)
A Bitcoin holder controlling at least 80,009 BTC, described as a Bitcoin OG, moved 40,000 BTC (about $4.35B) today after more than 14 years of dormancy, according to the Lookonchain post. The holder controls about eight wallets, two of which received 20,000 BTC on April 2, 2011, when the price was 0.78, and six of which received 60,009 BTC on May 4, 2011, when the price was $3.37. Four of the wallets transferred out 40,000 BTC today, while four remain dormant.
- Unlock 10-Year UAE Golden Visa with TON (ton.org)
TON presents itself as a fast, low-cost blockchain with direct reach into Telegram's user base. It claims about 0.4-second block times and 0.6 seconds to finality, with Gram transfers costing about 0.00039 Gram and USDt transfers about 0.001 Gram, and fees that are fixed regardless of network load. It says Telegram integration gives access to over 1B active users, that a public test verified 100K+ TPS, and that the mainnet handled 700K+ new wallets per day during peak loads.
- The Algorithmic Culture Collapse (open.substack.com)
- OpenAI: "OpenAI tokens" are not OpenAI equity, we did not partner with Robinhood (x.com)
- @nabeelqu: 12 reflections on antimemes, supermemes, and idea transmission (x.com)
Nabeel Qu's reflections on a book about antimemes and supermemes argue that original and important ideas start as antimemes: they are high-impact but hard to transmit, so they spread first through small, dedicated groups. The book describes supermemes, such as climate change, AI risk, and nationalism, as high-impact and highly transmissible, and it is suspicious of them because they absorb attention with little constructive action. It also notes that important ideas often have a identifiable "patient zero" and persistent champions, and that the Hayekian case for capitalism is an antimeme while communism is a supermeme.
- State of Activity on Unichain (x.com)
- Why I deleted my second brain (youtu.be)
- @tier10k: Rex-Osprey Solana ETF with staking set to begin trading Wednesday (x.com)
- Designer Of The Week - FLOOD (paragraph.com)
Flood, CEO of Operating System ($OPSYS), a design and development firm focused on Base, Farcaster and Clanker projects, profiles his work and process in this designer interview. He says he began his crypto journey with a $20 ETH purchase in 2014 and now juggles about ten client projects, naming Clanker, Native, To Be Determined and The Network Company as his top partnerships. He argues that brands should keep evolving rather than being treated as finished, and he encourages designers on Farcaster to post work-in-progress screenshots more often.
- @argotorg.eth: Argot secures foundational funding from Ethereum Foundation (farcaster.xyz)
- Introducing Ethereum Community Foundation (ethdaily.io)
Blockchain protocol engineer Zak Cole introduced the Ethereum Community Foundation (ECF), a new organization that funds Ethereum projects aimed at increasing the price and utility of ETH. The ECF focuses on immutable, credibly neutral, token-free projects that contribute to burning ETH, and Cole criticized the absence of a burn mechanism in EIP-4844. As its first initiative, the ECF is launching the Ethereum Validator Association (EVA), which will let validators express preferences using their staked ETH.
- @vrypan.eth: Farcaster node setup with 4TB storage (1TB sufficient for 350GB db) (farcaster.xyz)
- @chicbangs.eth: Farcaster becoming recycling bin for X links and TikToks (farcaster.xyz)
- @tokenfox.eth: nobody cares if art displays correctly beyond Opensea (farcaster.xyz)
- Bitcoin Treasury Companies Are Bubbles (bitcoinmagazine.com)
Strategy's bitcoin yield, the increase in bitcoin per share, is said to come from new shareholders rather than from business operations, so the company's model amounts to a Ponzi scheme, though bitcoin itself is not one. Shares are sold through large at-the-market offerings and through hedge funds' borrowed shares, and the premium of common shares over net assets, near double at the time of writing, sets the size of that yield. Bitcoin holdings rose from about 446,000 at the end of 2024 to above 550,000 by May 2025, funded partly by the Strike, Strife and Stride perpetual preferred stocks.
- relay bridge exchange (relay.link)
- ENS v2 Design Doc (drive.google.com)
- Fix AI’s data theft problem with onchain attribution (cointelegraph.com)
Ram Kumar, core contributor at OpenLedger, argues that people whose online posts, blogs and forum replies trained AI models should be paid through onchain attribution systems, a model he calls Payable AI. He proposes tagging each training item with a digital receipt and sending a small payment to the original creator each time the model is used, similar to music royalties and credited open-source code. He warns that without such tracking, AI could become a black market of stolen insights, and that intelligence could end up controlled by a few companies such as OpenAI, Meta and Google.
