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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- @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)
- Cardano founder calls the FBI on user who says his AI mistake caused chainsplit (xcancel.com)