Top crypto stories of week 48, 2025
Mon 24 to Sun 30 November 2025
The 20 top stories on Kiwi News from Mon 24 to Sun 30 November 2025, ranked by upvotes, comments and clicks, with 32 comments in total. Most-shared sources: x.com, xcancel.com, farcaster.xyz.
Text under a title is an AI summary of the linked article.
- Nobody Understands $JESSE (research.auditless.com)
Creator Coins are a clever revenue solution for Base but a flawed model for creators, and the complaints about the $JESSE launch on timing, extraction and sniping are unconvincing. Base earns most of its sequencer fees from trading, and Creator Coins generate token issuance and speculative volume that other creator monetization methods do not. The model is described as combining patronage and curation to get the worst of both worlds, since patrons face volatility and slippage while curators have no guaranteed rewards. Craig Mod's lean membership setup is presented as a contrast, with nobody losing money supporting him.
- JPM’s coordinated attack on BTC DATs may have caused Oct 10 selloffs (cryptonews.com)
- ETHval | Intrinsic Value Dashboard (ethval.com)
ETHval is a dashboard that estimates Ethereum's intrinsic value using 12 valuation models grouped into four categories: Traditional Finance, On-chain Asset Value, Network Effects, and Supply Scarcity. Its composite fair value is a simple average of the 12 active models, and any model can be toggled off to exclude it. The dashboard says it is free, and logging in with X and rating two models unlocks 3-year historical data and a What-If Simulator. Its Staking DCF uses a 9% discount rate and 3% perpetual growth rate, while the TVL Multiple model uses a 7x multiple. A disclaimer notes that the models are for reference only.
- @VitalikButerin: revealing country without opt-out is wrong, privacy rugpull (xcancel.com)
Vitalik Buterin says that revealing a user's country without consent and without any opt-out, not even an option to stop using the account, is wrong. He says that while revealing country leaves a very large anonymity set in most cases, some people for whom a few bits of leakage are risky should not have their privacy retroactively removed with no recourse.
- @OctantApp: Epoch 10 features 25 top projects before v2 transition (xcancel.com)
Octant has announced Epoch 10, "Best of the Best," which features 25 top-ranked projects from earlier epochs and is the second-last epoch before the transition to v2. The projects were chosen from each epoch's top three, with repeats replaced by the next highest-ranked project, and some were removed for ineligibility or because they had shut down. Selected projects include Aestus Relay, DAppNode, Protocol Guild, Rotki, and Tor Project. Octant users' allocation window runs from 6 January to 26 January 2026. Selected projects should check their email for participation details.
- Why Capital is leaving Bitcoin (x.com)
The author argues that Bitcoin was a regulatory battering ram that has largely finished its job, and that capital is now leaving it as tokenized claims on real assets become legal and widely available. The piece says tokenized US stocks are already being issued, tokenized gold is legal and growing, and tokenized USD has a market cap of several hundred billion dollars. It also cites Tether's ability to freeze stolen balances and reissue mistaken transfers as an example of why people value error correction over pure decentralization.
- @DanielVavra: EU passes Chat Control, parliament calls for under-16 ban (x.com)
- @ameensol: what is the endgame for crypto as a movement? (xcancel.com)
- @ensdomains: Sha1-Hulud supply-chain attack compromised 400+ npm libraries (farcaster.xyz)
The @ensdomains team reported that certain npm packages under the @ensdomains scope, published around 5:49am UTC on November 24, 2025, may be affected by a Sha1-Hulud supply-chain attack that has compromised over 400 npm libraries. The team has updated all latest tags, is rotating keys, and is attempting to unpublish all impacted versions. ENS Labs-operated websites, including app.ens.domains, have shown no signs of impact, and there is no evidence that names have been affected. Developers who installed ENS packages in the past 11 hours are advised to check a linked list of affected packages and install the latest version.
- Part 1: My Life Is a Lie (yesigiveafig.com)
The author argues that the official U.S. poverty line of $31,200 for a family of four measures only extreme deprivation, not adequacy. Mollie Orshansky's 1963 formula set the line at three times the minimum food budget, on the premise that food was about one-third of household spending, but food is now 5 to 7 percent of spending for most families, which would raise the multiplier to sixteen. Using that updated method, the article puts the threshold at about $140,000 for a family of four, and it builds a Basic Needs budget with childcare as the largest line item at $32,773.
- OpenAI Confirms Data Breach—Here's Who Is Impacted (decrypt.co)
A breach at analytics provider Mixpanel exposed account names, email addresses, and browser locations for some users of OpenAI's API, OpenAI confirmed Wednesday. Mixpanel said an unknown attacker accessed part of its systems on November 8 and exported a dataset of customer-identifiable metadata. OpenAI said prompts, API keys, payment information, and authentication tokens were not involved, and that only users accessing its technology through external apps powered by GPT were affected. OpenAI has terminated its use of Mixpanel.
- Self Checkout (receipts.vv.xyz)
Receipts is a pay-what-you-want artwork by Visualize Value, created at Art Basel Miami Beach 2025 through a live self checkout experience. Contributors signed their receipts to co-create the physical sculpture, and each owns digital space on the project website in proportion to the amount they spent. Receipt owners can update their exhibited signature indefinitely, and the site lets viewers sort receipts by order, tip amount, dollar spend, hearts, or recent updates.
- Mastering Ethereum (masteringethereum.xyz)
The second edition of the book *Mastering Ethereum* can be read online or bought on Amazon. The listed authors are Andreas M. Antonopoulos, Gavin Wood, Carlo Parisi, Alessandro Mazza and Niccolò Pozzolini. The work is licensed under Creative Commons: for the first 12 months after publication it carries the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license, after which it becomes available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- @monad: Monad Mainnet is live at app.monad.xyz (farcaster.xyz)
- @MartinSonneborn: EU chat control for 450M citizens on Wednesday agenda (x.com)
- vitalik.eth: donated 128 ETH each to Session and Simplex for metadata privacy (farcaster.xyz)
Vitalik Buterin says he donated 128 ETH each to Session and Simplex, two messaging apps he describes as pushing permissionless account creation and metadata privacy forward. He urges readers to download and use both apps, while noting that neither is yet optimal in user experience or security. The post says strong metadata privacy requires decentralization, which is hard, and that multi-device support and Sybil or DoS resistance add further difficulty.
- @ameensol: Railgun can't distinguish Vitalik's deposits from hacker funds (x.com)
- Monad Day 1 DeFi Guide (x.com)
Monad's DeFi ecosystem on day 1 of public mainnet spans lending, yield products and liquid staking, with app.monad.xyz listing the full landscape. Monad is presented as capable of 10,000 transactions per second, with 400ms block times and deterministic finality. Lending protocols Curvance and TownSquare let users borrow against liquid staking tokens or build leveraged MON exposure, while the MON Vault (built by Mellow, curated by Steakhouse) and the earnAUSD vault (built by Agora and Upshift) offer managed yield. Users can also stake MON directly or use liquid staking protocols Fastlane, Kintsu and Magma.
- Plinko PIR tutorial (vitalik.eth.limo)
Plinko is a private information retrieval protocol that lets a client read from a large database without the server learning which entry it wants, and it reduces communication and server compute from O(N) to O(√N) where N is the number of cells. The protocol is built on classic two-server PIR, whose weaknesses are the need to trust one of two servers, high communication overhead, and server work proportional to half the data per query. Plinko removes the trust assumption by using preprocessing: the client downloads the whole dataset once and keeps roughly 128·√N hints. For a workload of 10 billion 32-byte values, the article estimates the client would store about 390 MB of hints for a 100000×100000 grid, before backup hints and Merkle branches are added.
- Cardano founder calls the FBI on user who says his AI mistake caused chainsplit (xcancel.com)
