Top crypto stories of week 30, 2025
Mon 21 to Sun 27 July 2025
The 20 top stories on Kiwi News from Mon 21 to Sun 27 July 2025, ranked by upvotes, comments and clicks, with 8 comments in total. Most-shared sources: x.com, farcaster.xyz.
Text under a title is an AI summary of the linked article.
- compression culture is making you stupid and uninteresting (maalvika.substack.com)
- @ted: leaving Farcaster team, grateful for decentralized social mission work (farcaster.xyz)
- Introducing ECP: A new social content primitive on Ethereum (ecp-eth.github.io)
- @lookonchain: 3,962 BTC whale wallet wakes up after 14.5 years dormancy (x.com)
- The last meta (x.com)
- @vxunderground: Tea App compromised, stored photos and IDs in public Firebase (x.com)
- Tea - Dating Safety for Women (app) (teaforwomen.com)
- Péter Szilágyi - Decentralization: origins vs. reality (youtu.be)
Péter Szilágyi's talk traces how the meaning of decentralization has shifted over the past decade or more, from its origins through successive reinterpretations and misinterpretations in blockchain development. He notes that although decentralization is treated as a cornerstone of all blockchains, each generation of developers has redefined what it "actually means." The talk poses the question of whether constantly revising the definition leads to better or worse outcomes, and asks whether all evidence can be treated equally when trillions of dollars are at stake.
- It's rude to show AI output to people (distantprovince.by)
The author argues that sharing unedited AI output with other people is rude, because it passes machine text off as human thought and wastes the recipient's time. Drawing on Peter Watts's novel Blindsight, which describes alien scramblers treating human chatter as a viral attack, the piece says that AI text has lost the "proof-of-thought" that writing once carried, since AI now makes text, code and media very cheap. The proposed etiquette is that AI output should be relayed only if the sender has adopted it as their own or the recipient has explicitly consented, and that using AI yourself is fine.
- Persuasion Markets: A Manifesto (davidphelps.substack.com)
Persuasion markets, where people earn rewards for registering subjective opinions, are presented as a way for crypto to move beyond speculation and social hype toward conviction. Unlike prediction markets, they resolve onchain without oracles and can self-fund from participants' votes. JokeRace's Conviction Markets sell votes at a price that rises exponentially every minute, pool the funds for voters who backed the winner after a 10% platform fee, and let contest creators seed the pool.
- OLMo 2 32B: First fully open model to outperform GPT 3.5 and GPT 4o mini (allenai.org)
Ai2 released OLMo 2 32B, the largest model in its OLMo 2 family, which it describes as the first fully open model to outperform GPT-3.5-Turbo and GPT-4o mini on a suite of popular multi-skill academic benchmarks. The model was trained on up to 6T tokens and post-trained with Tülu 3.1, and Ai2 says it takes one third of the training cost of Qwen 2.5 32B while reaching similar performance. All data, code, weights and details are freely available. OLMo 2 32B was trained on Augusta, a 160-node cluster provided by Google Cloud, at over 1800 tokens per second per GPU (about 38% MFU).
- @binji_x: Ethereum has been online ten years straight with zero downtime (x.com)
Ethereum has run for ten years with no pauses or maintenance windows, and the post credits its uptime to its community rather than to any company or central operator. The post contrasts this with Facebook, which went down for 14 hours, AWS Kinesis, which froze for 17 hours, and Cloudflare, which dropped 19 datacenters. It says Ethereum has kept running through forks, crashes, bubbles, lawsuits, hacks and wars, because developers, stakers, researchers and users, described as millions of people worldwide, keep choosing to participate.
- @jc4p: App got coined without consent 38 minutes after launch (farcaster.xyz)
- The Hater's Guide To The AI Bubble (wheresyoured.at)
The entire AI trade is a deeply unstable bubble built on vibes and blind faith, and the writer argues that generative AI is not making money for anyone except NVIDIA. Yahoo Finance's Laura Bratton reported that Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, Alphabet and Tesla account for 42.4% of NVIDIA's revenue, while the Magnificent 7 make up about 35% of the US stock market. The writer estimates that Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, Google and Tesla will spend over $560 billion on AI capital expenditures across 2024 and 2025 to earn around $35 billion.
- @FUCORY: Arbitrum and OP should merge, only egos prevent rollup consolidation (x.com)
- Your body can be fingerprinted and tracked using Wi-Fi signals (pcworld.com)
Researchers at La Sapienza University of Rome developed WhoFi, a system that identifies and tracks specific people based on how their bodies alter Wi-Fi signals, reaching up to 95.5 percent accuracy with its neural network according to the research paper. The article states that earlier attempts in 2020 reached only 75 percent accuracy. The tests used signals from two TP-Link N750 routers and 14 people wearing different combinations of clothing and backpacks. The system is still a proof of concept that requires advanced software.
- @pichi: Curating "Farcaster Union" feed to decode network changes (farcaster.xyz)
- The Ether Machine (ethermachine.com)
- @hildobby: they're trading pfps again (x.com)
- Agents are clicking the „I‘m not a robot“ buttons (x.com)