Top crypto stories of week 43, 2025
Mon 20 to Sun 26 October 2025
The 20 top stories on Kiwi News from Mon 20 to Sun 26 October 2025, ranked by upvotes, comments and clicks, with 32 comments in total. Most-shared sources: farcaster.xyz, x.com.
Text under a title is an AI summary of the linked article.
- DIDs are a Dead End (jthor.eth.link)
- One long memo (gist.github.com)
- Introducing ZERA: an UI to reclaim assets from Zora’s ETH mainnet contracts. (zera.uint.studio)
- a16z-Backed Startup Sells Thousands of ‘Synthetic Influencers’ to Manipulate (404media.co)
- @dwr: Farcaster rolls out new brand with Primary Studio refresh (farcaster.xyz)
- The Social (the-social.app)
- @vgr: Peter Drucker's 1950s parable about Ethereum block builders (farcaster.xyz)
- State of Crypto 2025: The year crypto went mainstream (a16zcrypto.com)
- @kazani.eth: X Chat claims full encryption but admits no MITM protection (farcaster.xyz)
- @kenny: Vitalik's Farcaster reply gets only 1 like, highlights discovery problem (farcaster.xyz)
- kiwistand@0.12.0 released: Any Ethereum address can now use Kiwi News (github.com)
- Major AWS outage takes down Fortnite, Alexa, Snapchat, and more (theverge.com)
A major AWS outage on Monday morning took down multiple online services for several hours, including Amazon, Alexa, Snapchat, Fortnite, ChatGPT, and Epic Games Store. AWS's dashboard first reported issues affecting the US-EAST-1 Region at 3:11AM ET, and Amazon attributed the outage to resolution issues in its domain name system (DNS). Amazon later said at 6:35AM ET that the underlying issue "has been fully mitigated," and provided a final update at 6:53PM ET stating that all AWS services returned to normal operations by 6:01PM ET.
- Dissecting Substack’s Inverted Revenue Curve (sceneswithsimon.com)
- @VarrockBank: Ethereum lead engineer paid $105k (x.com)
- Weaponized Design and the Digital Identity Event Horizon with Cade Diehm (theblockchainsocialist.com)
- @addicteddotfun: $3.5M revenue in 48h on Solana after 4 years on Ethereum/Base (x.com)
- Rekt - We Have a Centralization Issue (rekt.news)
- @brian_armstrong: Base is building private transactions with Iron Fish team (x.com)
- @stephancill: Privy and Farcaster can still collude to recover your wallet (farcaster.xyz)
- @sandeepnailwal: Questioning loyalty to Ethereum after years of being excluded (x.com)