Top crypto stories of week 38, 2025
Mon 15 to Sun 21 September 2025
The 20 top stories on Kiwi News from Mon 15 to Sun 21 September 2025, ranked by upvotes, comments and clicks, with 12 comments in total. Most-shared sources: x.com, farcaster.xyz.
Text under a title is an AI summary of the linked article.
- A New Chapter for Mirror (dev.mirror.xyz)
- it is hard to care about digital privacy regulations because i assume i got none (open.substack.com)
- Solving AT Protocol's Centralized Identity (blog.boscolo.co)
The article proposes did:fid, a new DID method for AT Protocol based on Farcaster's identity system, as a third blessed DID method alongside did:plc and did:web. The author states that did:plc is controlled by Bluesky PBC and did:web depends on domains that require annual renewal and can be seized. Farcaster has over 1 million registered identities running on immutable smart contracts on Optimism, and each FID has custody, recovery and signer keys. The proof of concept is published on GitHub, and the author estimates about $1 to register a did:fid and less than $0.01 per update, but still needs a smart contract to store AT Protocol-specific data.
- Low-risk defi can be for Ethereum what search was for Google (vitalik.eth.limo)
Vitalik Buterin argues that low-risk defi, covering payments, savings, synthetic assets, fully collateralized lending and exchange between these assets, can do for Ethereum what search and ads did for Google by sustaining the ecosystem economically while staying aligned with its values. He contrasts this with Google's ad-driven incentives, which encourage collecting user data, and says Ethereum's decentralization makes such alignment more important. The post credits a shift in regulation and falling protocol risk for making defi more viable, and it cites Aave deposit rates for major stablecoins and Ethereum L1 defi losses as supporting data.
- AI Composability and the Terminal (research.auditless.com)
The author argues that command line interfaces are the second-best way to use AI, mainly because of composability. Coding has the strongest product-market fit of any LLM use case, and CLIs let tools like Claude Code run inside existing terminals and combine with other tools, scripts and agents. The article says Anthropic built Claude Code as a CLI so developers with different IDE preferences could all access the agent, and it lists workflows such as working over SSH, running parallel agents and using the CLI as a tool inside other agents. It notes that CLIs are not yet accessible to most non-developers, and that a better composable medium for AI has yet to emerge.
- Total epistemic divorce (x.com)
The article argues that the American left and right no longer share a common reality, with each side relying on its own trusted institutions to interpret major events such as the killing of Charlie Kirk. It cites a YouGov poll, reported as of Sunday the 14th, in which only 8 percent of Democrats thought the shooter, Tyler Robinson, was a fellow Democrat and 41 percent thought he was a Republican, while 40 percent of Republicans thought he was a Democrat and 13 percent thought he was a Republican. The article says Robinson was not registered to either party and that Utah's governor reported he had leftist sympathies. It blames fragmented social media, declining institutional trust, and AI tools that summarize prevailing narratives.
- @ethereum: Today marks 3 years since The Ethereum Merge (xcancel.com)
- Everything that's new in Kiwi News (paragraph.com)
Kiwi News shipped a series of updates over the summer, including a Farcaster mini app, personalized feeds, and iOS improvements. The Farcaster mini app works on both the newly launched Base App and Farcaster, and it now sends notifications for breaking news when the curators spot an important story. For logged-in users and those using Kiwi from a mini app, personalized feeds were added, and already clicked stories are greyed out to reduce clutter. The Hot feed also gained an option to show the newest stories first, and the iOS TestFlight app now supports sign-in with any WalletConnect wallet and a share dialog for submitting links.
- @feross: Major npm supply chain attack hit @ctrl/tinycolor and 40+ packages (x.com)
- Fed cuts by 25 bps (reuters.com)
- @gnosis-guild: hiring socials & growth lead and design lead for Zodiac (farcaster.xyz)
- Safe Haven by Kirill Semenovich (verse.works)
- 0xngmi on X: "The problem in RWA Metrics" (x.com)
DefiLlama says it has not listed Figure's RWA products because its due diligence found the claimed $12bn in on-chain RWAs hard to verify, not because of Figure's Twitter following as a rival claim suggested. The article, written by the DefiLlama side, says Figure had only about $5m in BTC and $4m in ETH deposited on its exchange, and its YLDS stablecoin had about $20m in supply. It also says DefiLlama disputes claims that it charges listing fees, stating it has never asked for or received payment for listings.
- The Biggest Coding Mistakes I Made Building Kiwi News (proofinprogress.com)
The author, who builds Kiwi News, a peer-to-peer Hacker News clone written in vanilla JavaScript, lists three regrets: building on Ethereum, choosing a templating and frontend stack, and building a website rather than an app. On Ethereum, the author says the project did not win over Ethereum maximalists as hoped, citing a shifting purity test, opposition to moving transaction volume off-chain, weak consumer-focused culture, and an L2 roadmap that is hard to criticize openly. The frontend mistake involves server-side rendering with developit/htm and React "islands," which produce boilerplate and cumbersome style maintenance. The author also says consumers view websites as less desirable than apps.
- @tbsocialist: Two pieces of content I've been thinking about after recent events (farcaster.xyz)
- Remilia Launching Milady Social Media Network to Serve '4chan Diaspora' (decrypt.co)
Remilia Corporation is launching RemiliaNET, an identity layer for its Milady community, as the first step toward RemiliaChat, a social media network it describes as a rival to X and aimed at fans of 4chan. RemiliaNET went live on Friday and lets users track Milady achievements and earn a "social credit score" that places them on a global leaderboard. Michael Dragovic, Remilia Corporation's Chief of Staff, told Decrypt that RemiliaChat has no confirmed release date and will include some content moderation.
- The State of Onchain Yield: From Stablecoins to DeFi and Beyond (galaxy.com)
Most stablecoins classified as non-yield-bearing pay holders nothing, and the reserve income they generate stays with issuers or protocols. USDT, FDUSD and USD1 pay no native interest, while USDC and PYUSD yield comes only from partnerships with Coinbase and PayPal/Venmo that cover a small slice of supply. Applying the average short-term Treasury yield to Tether's treasury holdings implies about $12.6 billion of interest income over three years. Decentralized designs such as USDe, DAI, USDS and USDf also pay 0% to plain holders, with yield available only by staking into separate savings modules like sDAI or sUSDe.
- @11AMdotclub: Jesse Pollak on balancing Coinbase equity with Base token plans (x.com)
Jesse Pollak says Coinbase has not yet worked out how to balance shareholder equity with a potential Base network token and does not have an answer on that question yet. He says the company will approach the issue rigorously, as it has with everything else it does. The article is a short excerpt, so it does not include details on specific mechanisms or timelines.
- Consensys CEO says MetaMask’s native cryptocurrency is on its way (theblock.co)
- "The pool on the Titanic is still full?" (x.com)