Top crypto stories of week 40, 2025
Mon 29 September to Sun 5 October 2025
The 20 top stories on Kiwi News from Mon 29 September to Sun 5 October 2025, ranked by upvotes, comments and clicks, with 6 comments in total. Most-shared sources: farcaster.xyz, x.com, rekt.news.
Text under a title is an AI summary of the linked article.
- Introducing Kagi News (blog.kagi.com)
- @pcaversaccio: Ethereum's worst enemy is institutional adoption (farcaster.xyz)
- @enclavee3: TEEs broken with $50 hardware, E3s needed for encrypted execution (farcaster.xyz)
- Crypto Face/Off (wrongalot.substack.com)
- $39i, 2025.09.28.22.46.40.319 (objkt.com)
- Joe Lubin confirms SWIFT is using Linea to build its new payments system (cointelegraph.com)
- Kiwistand version 0.11.0 released (github.com)
- Starknet Is All In: BTCFi (research.auditless.com)
- Rip to sparks. (farcaster.xyz)
- Meet Phantom Cash. (phantom.com)
- @0xGrimjow: on bridging fees and value loss (x.com)
- Kiwi News Weekly Digest — Oct 03, 2025 (buttondown.com)
- @brave: Cardano now fully integrated into Brave browser with built-in wallet (xcancel.com)
- Rekt - Hypervault - Rugged (rekt.news)
- @protolambda: stepping away from OP Labs after building OP-Stack and Superchain (x.com)
- @notthreadguy: 54% capital gains tax in California is insane (x.com)
- @kenny: Farcaster user @davebachinsky breaks kickflip world record (farcaster.xyz)
- Privacy Cluster Leadership Announcement (blog.ethereum.org)
The Ethereum Foundation has announced a new leadership structure for its privacy work, with Igor Barinov joining as coordinator of Privacy @ EF and Andy Guzman taking over as coordinator of the PSE team from Sam Richards. Barinov, founder of Blockscout, Gnosis Chain, and zkBob, will guide strategy and alignment across privacy-focused efforts including PSE, while Guzman will lead applied cryptography, research, and development. The Privacy @ EF Cluster organizes PSE's work across research, product, engineering, and operations, and is built around three pillars: Private Reads, Private Writes, and Private Proving. The announcement notes that more than 700 projects are building in the onchain privacy space.
- Other Internet Book Launch: Berlin & Lisbon (otherinternet.substack.com)
- Rekt - SBI Crypto (rekt.news)