Top crypto stories of week 49, 2025
Mon 1 to Sun 7 December 2025
The 20 top stories on Kiwi News from Mon 1 to Sun 7 December 2025, ranked by upvotes, comments and clicks, with 24 comments in total. Most-shared sources: x.com, farcaster.xyz, paragraph.com.
Text under a title is an AI summary of the linked article.
- OP Token Migration Guide: How to Migrate & Official Announcement (paragraph.com)
- Robot dogs wearing Musk, Zuckerberg faces steal Miami art show (newsbytesapp.com)
Beeple (Mike Winkelmann) is showing "Regular Animals" at Art Basel in Miami, a project of robotic dogs with hyperrealistic silicone faces of tech billionaires such as Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, along with famous artists. Winkelmann says the robots reinterpret the world through the lenses of the different characters, taking photos that become unique NFT prints in distinct visual styles. The robots also give away free NFT souvenirs, and the article reports that every animal was sold within the first hour of the fair. Reactions were mixed, with some onlookers calling the work "disgusting" or "disturbing" and others finding it brilliant.
- @jinglejamOP: Optimism over-hired without strategy, now refocusing on OP Stack (x.com)
Optimism's co-founder Jinglejam (@jinglejamOP) says the organization over-hired without a clear strategy, relied too heavily on tactics such as launching Base, Ink, Unichain, Worldchain and Soneium, and is now refocusing on the OP Stack. He says the organization has parted ways with many teammates, re-unified execution under a single entity, and rebuilt its engineering and enterprise sales teams. The stated goals are to build scalable financial infrastructure, bring enterprises and their assets onchain, and maximize the productivity of those assets. He argues the OP Stack will beat competitors such as Solana, Tempo, Arbitrum and Avalanche in enterprise deals.
- Mirror to Paragraph Migration (paragraph.com)
Paragraph provides a guide for moving subscribers and posts from another publishing platform, starting with exporting both from the old platform. Subscriber imports require a CSV with an email address column, can be up to 10 MB, and are run by asking an agent to import the file, with imported subscribers marked with the "Imported" source. Paragraph accepts WordPress XML, Substack ZIP, and Paragraph JSON or CSV exports for posts, previews the archive before importing, and skips posts already imported when an import is repeated. Only people who signed up to receive messages should be imported, since purchased or scraped lists hurt deliverability and are not allowed.
- Art Basel Miami's Zero10 and how Web3 celebrates the walls it meant to disrupt (xcancel.com)
- RainbowFDN to hold 20% of $RNBW (x.com)
- dwr Hall Of Fame (dwr-hof.pages.dev)
- I Wasted 8 Years of My Life in Crypto (x.com)
The author, who spent eight years working in crypto, argues that the industry built a casino rather than the new financial system it promised. He says the incentives around Layer 1 blockchains, spot and perp DEXs, prediction markets and meme coins reward speculation and zero-sum trading, and that the money raised for these projects was largely lost by retail and VC investors alike. He predicts the industry's mentality will erode social mobility for younger people, and he says he is leaving the space, admitting he made good money from it.
- FIP: Opportunity For Another Consensus · farcasterxyz protocol · Discussion #257 (github.com)
A hybrid model combining a protocol treasury with optional validator cost-cover fees is proposed as a robust, low-risk alternative. A fixed share of Pro subscriptions, 30% in the example, would fund a treasury distributed monthly to active validators according to the read/write traffic they serve and a cryptographic check that they store all data. Validators could also charge minimal micro-payment fees for complex or high-volume writes, mainly paid by commercial applications or bots, while regular users would pay nothing for normal actions. The proposal claims this would be sustainable, fair, and resistant to capture by a single entity.
- My Attempt at Breaking Uniswap's New Auction Protocol (research.auditless.com)
Uniswap has launched Continuous Clearing Auctions (CCA), and the author concludes that CCA does not entirely remove skill and technology from the auction process, though the right post-auction pool design could significantly mitigate sniping. The Whitepaper claims the mechanism could replace how IPO launches happen in the future, and the Aztec team is using it to launch the $AZTEC token. Under CCA, each block has a single clearing price, and each bid is spread across the auction's future blocks, which the author says makes late and early sniping impossible. The author notes remaining risks, including under-bidding, secondary markets, and pre-pool sniping after the auction converts into a Uniswap v4 pool.
- Kiwi News Weekly Digest — Dec 05, 2025 (buttondown.com)
- Fusaka Mainnet Upgrade Livestream | Dec 03, 2025 (youtube.com)
- Who would be interested in implementing CCA into Kiwi?
- @timdaub.eth: Farcaster needs a grassroots client fork to prove the protocol (farcaster.xyz)
Tim Daub argues that Farcaster needs a grassroots client fork to prove the protocol's value, and that the current revolt against the leading app's founder reflects class struggle more than a technical dispute. He says Farcaster's founders showed genuine altruism when they created the protocol, and that during the ZIRP era, people with modest wealth could have exited by building a new client. He adds that today's workers feel too demoralized to organize a fork, and that the team has contributed to this by suggesting that growing daily active users is extremely hard. He concludes that a grassroots leader could mobilize developers and users to build a client that draws disenfranchised users away from the main app.
- @coinbureau: Poland becomes the only EU country not to pass MiCA crypto bill (x.com)
- @dwr: State of Farcaster, December 2025 – pivoting to wallet-first growth (farcaster.xyz)
Dan Romero (@dwr) and Varun say Farcaster is pivoting to wallet-first growth after more than five years of work toward a decentralized social network with 1 billion daily users. They say the earlier social-first strategy, over 4.5 years, shipped a sufficiently decentralized protocol but found no sustainable growth mechanic and no product-market fit. The company launched a wallet in its app earlier this year, which the article says has scaled quickly and is the closest it has come to product-market fit in five years. The article argues that every wallet user is also on the protocol, and that it is easier to add a wallet to a social network than the reverse. It adds that the protocol is an open collection of casts, follows, reactions, identities, and wallets, with other clients such as Uno, Recaster, Cura, Base, Zapper, and Firefly taking different approaches.
- Ethereum's Latest Upgrade: Fusaka (youtu.be)
- @ethereum: Fusaka upgrade tomorrow unlocks 8x data throughput via PeerDAS (xcancel.com)
- @base: The Base-Solana bridge is now live (x.com)
- @kazani: crypto doesn't care about privacy because incentives reward visibility (farcaster.xyz)
Crypto builders say they value privacy but keep building on architectures that structurally cannot provide it, because incentives reward visibility, speculation and network effects instead. The article argues that public blockchains were designed for transparency, auditability and censorship resistance, so privacy was at most an afterthought masked by pseudonymity. It says public global state acts as a surveillance tool, and that optional privacy amounts to no privacy, since users, developers and platforms will not adopt it without being forced to. It concludes that real change requires major apps, exchanges and wallets to adopt privacy by default and for developers to see adoption metrics for privacy products.