Top crypto stories of week 47, 2025
Mon 17 to Sun 23 November 2025
The 20 top stories on Kiwi News from Mon 17 to Sun 23 November 2025, ranked by upvotes, comments and clicks, with 21 comments in total. Most-shared sources: x.com, paragraph.com, farcaster.xyz.
Text under a title is an AI summary of the linked article.
- Introducing Writer Coins (paragraph.com)
Paragraph is introducing writer coins, a way for readers to back a writer's work, signal that they were early supporters, and share in the writer's growth over time. Writers can launch a coin and send rewards of about 5% of the total supply to past supporters, including Paragraph and Mirror collectors, post coin buyers, current subscribers, and Farcaster and Base app followers. By default, coins are paired with Wrapped ETH, though writers can pair them with their Zora or Base app creator coin, which grows in lock-step with the writer coin. The company says it plans to add recurring purchases and reward mechanisms for actions such as shares and comments.
- Dappradar ils shutting down (x.com)
- Making Ethereum Feel Like One Chain Again | Ethereum Foundation Blog (blog.ethereum.org)
The Ethereum Foundation's Account Abstraction team proposes the Ethereum Interop Layer (EIL), which would make Ethereum's rollups feel like one chain by letting users sign once for a cross-chain transaction without adding new trust assumptions. The proposal builds on ERC-4337 account abstraction and the Trustless Manifesto, with users initiating and settling cross-L2 actions directly from their wallets rather than through relayers or solvers. Examples include a cross-chain USDC transfer from Arbitrum to Base, an NFT mint on Linea funded from Arbitrum and Scroll, and a swap on an Optimism DEX. The article states that the disclaimer applies: the post is a team proposal and may not reflect consensus views of the Foundation.
- fountain ➜ paragraph (hey.xyz)
- @rainbowdotme: Rainbow adds support for Gnosis Chain (xcancel.com)
- @shazow.eth: What's the hackernews of ethereum today for crypto tech? (farcaster.xyz)
- In It to Own It in the Age of Apps (gnosis.io)
Gnosis is launching a consumer finance app, the Gnosis App, which it says will be built on collective ownership rather than extractive ownership, with rewards for users as owners in the stack. Co-founder Friederike Ernst says the goal is effortless self-custody, rewards that introduce better money, and rails that stay credibly neutral at scale. The company lists exploratory rewards including up to 5% cashback on eligible card spending and zero FX fees on international card spends. The article also points to Gnosis Pay and Gnosis Chain as infrastructure for other builders, and says Gnosis Chain has had zero downtime in over 7 years.
- Strategy Could See $2.8B In Outflows If Indices Exclude MSTR (bitcoinmagazine.com)
JPMorgan warns that Strategy (MSTR) is at risk of exclusion from major equity indices as MSCI prepares to decide on January 15 whether companies with large digital-asset treasuries belong in its benchmarks. Analysts say the company's market cap is around $59 billion and nearly $9 billion is held in passive index-tracking vehicles, with outflows of $2.8 billion if MSCI removes Strategy and up to $8.8 billion if other index providers follow. The report says the stock has fallen over 60% since last November's high and that its mNAV premium has collapsed to just above 1.1.
- Should the GnosisDAO Terminate karpatkey Treasury Management Services? (snapshot.org)
- Kiwi News adds "Anon Mode" (paragraph.com)
Kiwi News has added an "Anon Mode" that disables most tracking and lets users submit, comment and upvote anonymously, as a response to X's new feature that shows the country a user joined from. X says the feature is meant to minimize nation-state psyops, while crypto privacy advocates have called it "geodoxxing." To enter Anon Mode, users open an incognito window and visit news.kiwistand.com?anon, or log in through the regular site and click Anon Mode. The mode creates a new Ethereum address per interaction, removes Posthog and Google Analytics tracking, and removes all third-party hosted preview images.
- Defining groupcore (ideaspace.ystrickler.com)
Groupcore is defined as the loose, rotating circles of collaboration and work that the internet makes possible, a mode of cooperation that preserves autonomy, distributes authorship, and generates outcomes no one could make alone. The article describes it as fractal, anti-fragile, and structured as a lattice rather than a skyscraper. It uses Metalabel as its example, a team of four that says it has run for four years, with its Metalabel marketplace having seen 30,000+ collectors, 1,000+ creators, and nearly $2 million in transactions over the past three years. The team says it manages its many projects through a heterarchy, limited decisions, and strong norms, and is building the Dark Forest OS software to offer the groupcore stack as one tool.
- AI Bubble Dashboard | Exponential View (boomorbubble.ai)
- “Two internets” theory in a HN comment (news.ycombinator.com)
- ZKPassport Is Not KYC: How Zero-Knowledge Verification Protects Your Privacy (x.com)
ZKPassport, a zero-knowledge identity verification tool, is not KYC, according to its developers, who say it lets users prove facts like "valid passport" or "over 18" without uploading documents or revealing their identity. The verification runs on the user's phone using a passport or ID card, and the app generates a proof that is not linked to the user's wallet. The article states that ZKPassport does not upload, store, or share passport data with Aztec or any third party, and that its code is open source so anyone can verify this. Aztec chose this approach for the $AZTEC token sale instead of the document-collection compliance processes used by platforms such as Legion, Echo/Sonar, Kaito, and Coinbase.
- @DegenerateNews: Extreme fear hits highest level in CMC crypto index history (x.com)
- What Is Post-AI Art? (artreview.com)
A five-artist discussion convened by ArtReview, including Avery Singer, Simon Denny, Holly Herndon, Mat Dryhurst and Jon Rafman, explores what art might look like after AI. Dryhurst argues that the important creative act is building the system or constraints that generate media, not any single output, and that this framing, which he calls "protocol art", offers a way to address how AI makes single pictures harder to value. Singer proposes a generative, self-expanding text and suggests the term "neural media" as an alternative to "post-AI." Rafman describes AI as a tool like Photoshop and criticizes restrictive licensing that would let only legacy media corporations participate, while Dryhurst says he finds the "ethical AI" framing often a grift. Denny notes that people react more viscerally to AI than to earlier tools, which he says suggests it is perceived as threatening.
- The CloudFlare outage was a good thing (farcaster.xyz)
Cloudflare's outage is argued to be a good thing because it exposes the fragility of an internet increasingly concentrated in a few providers. The article says a bad config file triggered a latent bug in one Cloudflare service, causing a cascading failure that left popular apps and web services inaccessible for several hours. It argues that the outage shows society assuming the net is always on, and that such warnings can force redundancy and resilience into systems. It draws a parallel to how COVID-19 pushed businesses to diversify supply chains, and concludes: "Embrace outages, and build redundancy."
- Meta's SAM 3D cannot even generate the Meta logo (bsky.app)
- EF Director Hsiao Wei Wang Outlines Ethereum’s Vision At Devconnect Argentina (etherworld.co)
Hsiao Wei Wang, Ethereum Foundation (EF) leader, argued at Devconnect Argentina that Ethereum's next decade should be guided by reliability, flexibility and stewardship, with the community building the network step by step like a ladder. Wang celebrated Ethereum's 10-year milestone and said every major upgrade has maintained full network liveness, a result of coordinated work by multiple independent client teams, researchers and contributors. She said stewardship means responsibility, not authority, and that the EF invests early in research, experimentation and client diversity. Wang also said decentralization cannot be assumed and requires continuous protection.
- Cardano Network Disrupted by 'Poisoned' Transaction Attack (decrypt.co)
Cardano's blockchain split into two ledgers on Friday after a malformed delegation transaction triggered a software validation flaw, according to Intersect, the network's governance organization. Nodes running newer software accepted the transaction while older nodes rejected it, so operators built blocks on different branches until patched software was deployed. Intersect said no user funds were lost and urged operators to upgrade. A user posting as Homer J. on X said they submitted the transaction while trying to reproduce it and apologized, while co-founder Charles Hoskinson called it a premeditated attack by a disgruntled stake pool operator. ADA's price fell more than 6% following the incident.
