# Top stories on Kiwi News, week 29 2025 Mon 14 to Sun 20 July 2025 Page: https://news.kiwistand.com/weekly/2025-W29 The 20 top stories on Kiwi News from Mon 14 to Sun 20 July 2025, ranked by upvotes, comments and clicks, with 12 comments in total. Most-shared sources: x.com, farcaster.xyz, paragraph.com. Summaries are AI summaries of the linked article. ## 1. @lookonchain: Bitcoin OG transfers 40,009 BTC ($4.68B) to Galaxy Digital - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/lookonchain-Bitcoin-OG-transfers-40009-BTC-dollar468B-to-Galaxy-Digital?index=0x68761cbeb35489d53b3563ed451a2111a15873a1d6e480bcd58664c2fab993e1ffb605b2 - Source: https://x.com/lookonchain/status/1945045973350187134 - Submitted by tim, 11 upvotes, 1 comment ## 2. Insensitive Ethereum - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Insensitive-Ethereum?index=0x6878aaf0ace5cc070c43ec1a93b0bb3c90634c251acff9637ddbeed836baa36a7ea7b626 - Source: https://espresso.jlabsdigital.com/insensitive-ethereum - Submitted by tim, 10 upvotes, 0 comments ## 3. @pichi: Farcaster's algorithm is artificially boosting small accounts - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/pichi-Farcasters-algorithm-is-artificially-boosting-small-accounts?index=0x6874a5b84cfabac5d2345879e16ad08e5bb746733a47a7bb24b7cc5df0f91e5759a628b6 - Source: https://farcaster.xyz/pichi/0x0e29fa37 - Submitted by @timdaub.eth, 10 upvotes, 3 comments Farcaster's feed algorithm is believed by the author, pichi, to be artificially boosting certain newer accounts, and the author calls for the practice to end. The author cites casts from accounts with about 1,000 followers that reached 10,000 to 18,000 views, while longtime casters with over 100,000 followers saw reach fall by as much as 67% in the last 30 days, per a Dune-based unique-account metric. The author says these patterns cannot be explained without boosting, though the piece also acknowledges that timing, interaction graphs and reposts by top casters can affect visibility. ## 4. Mini Apps: A UX Fight That Will Shape Ethereum's Future - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Mini-Apps-A-UX-Fight-That-Will-Shape-Ethereums-Future?index=0x6878286645d1076a5158be0e413b806de52873bb8da5fd934253f2df75978e1e6722c633 - Source: https://paragraph.com/@1a35e1/mini-apps-ethereum - Submitted by 1a35e1.eth, 8 upvotes, 1 comment The article argues that Ethereum's growing number of L2s, L3s and app-specific chains makes the user experience harder, and that crypto mini-apps tied to single platforms risk recreating walled gardens. It cites WeChat, Alipay and Baidu as examples of mini-app models and says Farcaster, Worldcoin and Coinbase Wallet each tie their apps to a home ecosystem: Optimism, World Chain and Base. The author states that mini-apps hide complexity but still serve the underlying platform, and calls for consumer apps that work horizontally across chains while preserving self-sovereign accounts. ## 5. The Impenetrable Male: Giga Chad as Digital Body Armor - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/The-Impenetrable-Male-Giga-Chad-as-Digital-Body-Armor?index=0x687a248617269a01367f6c3bc4d2ab1f3078b9d06be74a77962cf8baacb936cfcb68286b - Source: https://networkcultures.org/longform/2025/07/15/giga-chad - Submitted by misha, 9 upvotes, 0 comments The essay argues that the Giga Chad meme works as digital armor for men who feel threatened by feminism and social change, and that masculinity's structural demands make the crisis chronic rather than temporary. It describes Giga Chad as a digitally manipulated image built from photographs attributed to fitness model Ernest Khalimov, created by Russian artist Krista Sudmalis for her "Sleek'N'Tears" project, which first circulated on 4chan in 2017. Incels adopted the image as the ultimate "Chad," a rival that offers both distress and comfort, as John Mercer and Clarissa Smith put it. The text also cites Jacob Johansson's claim that Chad embodies a racialised fantasy of white masculinity. ## 6. [Black/White] Square - Kim Asendorf - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/BlackWhite-Square-Kim-Asendorf?index=0x687b5682fe21a2f9c2b265df6d0064d89e3bd9432ee806d3f3325bedf23e10f2a120c176 - Source: https://kimasendorf.com/square - Submitted by misha, 8 upvotes, 0 comments Kim Asendorf's "Black Square" and "White Square" are two generative on-chain works on Ethereum Mainnet in which opposing algorithms keep each square in constant tension between preservation and dissolution. Each piece is a 1/1 with a 1.0 ETH reserve price, and both are offered in auctions that run for 7 days and extend by 5 minutes when a bid lands in the final 5 minutes. Asendorf describes the pair as companion works, with the black square on white representing physical reality and its inverse representing the digital. The works are fully on-chain, with 11.5 KB of code and no external dependencies. ## 7. Focus, Shipping and the Long Game - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Focus-Shipping-and-the-Long-Game?index=0x6876292ba85ce25d4dae9a89f7243810a84f3742ffa3ed9c84e3562f58a75a03a8fdc743 - Source: https://natemodi.com/blog/focus - Submitted by tim, 9 upvotes, 0 comments ## 8. Designer Of The Week: Special - Münevver Aslan - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Designer-Of-The-Week-Special-Munevver-Aslan?index=0x687ab94bbf62420776916a8025237b066b24c07a821059dc636b920f3e7c0aacdbdd94fb - Source: https://paragraph.com/@designchannel/special-feature-munevver-aslan - Submitted by @disky.eth, 9 upvotes, 0 comments Münevver Aslan, a digital product and brand designer focused on UI/UX and design systems for Web3 platforms, describes her work in this Designer Of The Week interview. She explains that she designed the wordmark for the Argot Collective's Act project, a minimal sans-serif logo with a small square dot meant to represent verified truth and certainty, after the Octant bounty brief asked only for a simple word mark. She also cites her UI and design system work for Truth Post, a decentralized social platform, where she led user interviews with participants ranging from crypto natives to newcomers. The Act team said they liked the logo's minimal design and its connection to verified code. ## 9. A new day one: Base's next chapter - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/A-new-day-one-Bases-next-chapter?index=0x68781e29dd71aca79215dd7cdbc98d599769900f0497b90adc710444284bd610a9619922 - Source: https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1YqGoopMEjjGv - Submitted by pedrovilela.eth, 6 upvotes, 0 comments ## 10. Introducing Songcoins - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Introducing-Songcoins?index=0x68757aa20da3d46ad6d42f81abcecb7b989eb5951da9de56028d2c9f3f7e6e63ee4b772e - Source: https://paragraph.com/@coopahtroopa.eth/introducing-songcoins - Submitted by pedrovilela.eth, 7 upvotes, 2 comments Coop Records announces Songcoins, a shift to releasing songs as coins on Base, starting with new coins from San Holo and BLOND:ISH and a planned new release every Friday. Each song coin has a 1B supply, split 5% to artist(s), 5% to Coop Records and 90% to liquidity, and launches at a market cap of about $4000 and trades directly on Uniswap. Coins allocated to artists, Coop Records and the incentive pool vest over 90 days. Collectibles will continue alongside coins, and the company says it has paid artists over $1m from collectibles since 2023. ## 11. @cassie: Base's strategy mirrors AOL's failed internet land grab playbook - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/cassie-Bases-strategy-mirrors-AOLs-failed-internet-land-grab-playbook?index=0x6875fa4c314256ac57a19f760afc9959262c00275582ce65e5bad4da3b967d5686ff073d - Source: https://farcaster.xyz/cassie/0x45470e26 - Submitted by tim, 8 upvotes, 0 comments This discussion post argues that Base's strategy repeats the playbook AOL used in its failed internet land grab, which the author says ended with AOL losing everything. The author describes the early internet as a set of pocket communities, with companies like Microsoft (MSN) and AOL (Usenet) trying to extend control into adjacent territory and failing. By contrast, the author says Google and Amazon won by connecting people to the web rather than locking in their interactions. The author also says Base built on Ethereum, which scales poorly, by using a centralized sequencer, and condensed its strategy around turning everything into a token. ## 12. Rekt - ArcadiaFi - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Rekt-ArcadiaFi?index=0x687a234c6ad9f632705bfe3608df47e773888e15f97a0bf3f4a391fc9dad3c5f7326ea25 - Source: https://rekt.news/arcadiafi-rekt - Submitted by pedrovilela.eth, 8 upvotes, 0 comments ArcadiaFi, a DeFi lending protocol on Base, lost about $3.6 million on July 14-15 through a flaw in its rebalancer contract, according to the article's account. The article says the attacker used three Morpho flashloans worth about $1.5 billion and that the unchecked router.call(data) in SwapLogic._swapViaRouter() let them drain victim accounts after repaying their debt. It states that Pashov Auditing Group had flagged the missing input validation but closed the issue as unexploitable, and that Trust Security, Sherlock and Renascence Labs audits did not cover the Rebalancer. ## 13. @v: New video feeds with full screen viewing and algo for Farcaster - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/v-New-video-feeds-with-full-screen-viewing-and-algo-for-Farcaster?index=0x687bde6f9e6f40c64a106dc36c614374b1d90e24f45b053f38a61c1d8254786de4ac632a - Source: https://farcaster.xyz/v/0xe8ca6fe2 - Submitted by @timdaub.eth, 8 upvotes, 0 comments Farcaster has launched a video feed, a full screen viewer for watching videos from favorite creators. The feed supports gestures for fast navigation, including liking, speeding up and commenting on videos. A new video algorithm prioritizes videos from people users follow while also showing the best videos from across the network. Users can open the feed by tapping any video or the top-right video feed button. ## 14. this bitcoin thesis will retire your bloodline - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/this-bitcoin-thesis-will-retire-your-bloodline?index=0x687652dea35a0494b31a070dde0239bc1a432a97c3329a97a1b016af7516bfaa7981d841 - Source: https://x.com/udiWertheimer/status/1944754496543863262 - Submitted by pedrovilela.eth, 8 upvotes, 0 comments The post argues that bitcoin is in the final stage of a generational rotation, with old large holders having sold around $100k to newer buyers, and that a rally comparable to Dogecoin's 2020-2021 run is about to begin. It draws the parallel to Dogecoin: a 50% rally after Elon Musk's April 2, 2019 tweet, then a roughly 10x move in two weeks in January 2021 once sellers ran out of tokens, and a further 10x to about $0.70. The author predicts bitcoin reaching $400k by the end of this year, says altcoins will likely underperform, and expects MSTR's market cap to flip Ethereum's. ## 15. @Etherealize_io: GENIUS Act passes Congress for stablecoins and Ethereum - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Etherealizeio-GENIUS-Act-passes-Congress-for-stablecoins-and-Ethereum?index=0x6879606f088c448e7a2d40dda7281b24460c35b94e81ae9970c6b6a99d3ece19eee9f3f5 - Source: https://x.com/Etherealize_io/status/1945946679603286482 - Submitted by pedrovilela.eth, 7 upvotes, 0 comments ## 16. @polynya: Why most legacy L1 haven't migrated to L2 despite technical advantages - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/polynya-Why-most-legacy-L1-havent-migrated-to-L2-despite-technical-advantages?index=0x6875f3544360b63d0c6c21ba69ca11c66b19896d3963faf76b9744ad5816a2676159511b - Source: https://farcaster.xyz/polynya/0x35bd762b - Submitted by misha, 7 upvotes, 1 comment Polynya argues that most legacy L1 blockchains have not migrated to L2 despite the technical advantages, and offers several possible reasons. Since 2021, nearly all major new chains have launched as L2s, including Unichain, Coinbase, Kraken and Robinhood's chain, with Hyperliquid as the exception. The proposed reasons include application demand growing far below expectations, leaving most L1s with little activity and no need for L2 performance or interoperability, and L2 and blob development slowing since 2022. Polynya also suggests that much of some L1s' token value depends on opposition to Ethereum, and that the industry's shift toward speculation has reduced the weight given to decentralization and security. ## 17. @colin: Paragraph launches Coins for backing writers and sharing upside - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/colin-Paragraph-launches-Coins-for-backing-writers-and-sharing-upside?index=0x6876ba04bc57846fedd0fc93f5b2310afdc7643ef67af24447f053a7a7a191344ab58286 - Source: https://farcaster.xyz/colin/0x1149382f - Submitted by @timdaub.eth, 7 upvotes, 3 comments ## 18. @pumpdotfun: $PUMP tokens go live at 17:00 UTC after ICO distribution - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/pumpdotfun-dollarPUMP-tokens-go-live-at-1700-UTC-after-ICO-distribution?index=0x68752ce15311c2f50876ed9d1a64361f8bfe2e495ef291fd00e37471a9e85074d1b6c126 - Source: https://x.com/pumpdotfun/status/1944789096079007946 - Submitted by tim, 5 upvotes, 0 comments ## 19. Temporal realness is the hottest commodity - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Temporal-realness-is-the-hottest-commodity?index=0x6876b178b655dce02bbabffe909fa8ec158e275bde6f9028e47cdf8a9bc699c9bf23ca57 - Source: https://onethingnewsletter.substack.com/p/temporal-realness-is-the-hottest?action=share&isFreemail=true&post_id=168415146&publication_id=1860865&r=6d366&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxMDY4ODMzNCwicG9zdF9pZCI6MTY4NDE1MTQ2LCJpYXQiOjE3NTI2MDg3NDYsImV4cCI6MTc1NTIwMDc0NiwiaXNzIjoicHViLTE4NjA4NjUiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.tdQOTrCuElmrPBGqNjp2kvtDuw76Z-w1Kf5HYi4QRdw&triedRedirect=true&triggerShare=true - Submitted by naomiii.eth, 5 upvotes, 0 comments Kyle Chayka argues that the media industry's shift toward audio, video, livestreams and live conferences reflects a broader cultural demand for real-time, human-driven experiences that feel authentic. He links this to an anxious response to AI-generated content and the decline of search and the wider internet, since people trust content most when they see it coming from a human body. He cites Ben Smith's description of Semafor's conference business as "live journalism" and Brian Morrissey's observation that brands are returning to IRL experiences. Chayka also draws on Anna Kornbluh's 2024 book "Immediacy" to frame live culture as finite and hard to replicate. ## 20. @WatcherGuru: US House passes 'Genius Act' crypto stablecoin bill - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/WatcherGuru-US-House-passes-Genius-Act-crypto-stablecoin-bill?index=0x68796344bc45df34f0ee917dffa742293a758a5769051924a8cb4ce05c88478701a5082d - Source: https://x.com/WatcherGuru/status/1945931155129139491 - Submitted by tim, 7 upvotes, 1 comment