Top crypto stories of week 5, 2026
Mon 26 January to Sun 1 February 2026
The 20 top stories on Kiwi News from Mon 26 January to Sun 1 February 2026, ranked by upvotes, comments and clicks, with 25 comments in total. Most-shared sources: farcaster.xyz, x.com.
- Vitalik: An Ethereum Story on YouTube (youtube.com)
- vitalik.eth: How I would do creator coins (farcaster.xyz)
- AI Minimalism (research.auditless.com)
- @polynya: crypto repeats historical mistakes with DAOs, DeFi, and gambling (farcaster.xyz)
- Microsoft Gave FBI BitLocker Encryption Keys, Exposing Privacy Flaw (forbes.com)
- 18 things Farcaster got right. 7 that it didn't. (x.com)
- PSA: Don't keep crypto at home in the age of wrench attacks (x.com)
- Clan a peer-to-peer computer management framework built on Nixos (clan.lol)
- Iran’s internet blackout may become permanent, with access for elites only (restofworld.org)
- @Rodeo: we've made the decision to wind down Rodeo (x.com)
- vitalik.eth: I withdrew 16,384 ETH to fund open-source verifiable tech stack (farcaster.xyz)
- Tornado Cash-funded signer now secures $220M+ in TheDAO fund - the DAO is back? (x.com)
- Local-First Conf 2026 (localfirstconf.com)
- 2026 Iranian massacre (grokipedia.com)
- Cryptosaurus (farcaster.xyz)
- @WazzCrypto: Shitcoiners ruined Moltbook by abusing upvotes to promote tokens (x.com)
- @DavideCrapis: ERC-8004 Trustless Agents standard now live on Ethereum mainnet (xcancel.com)
- Introducing the RCM Protocol (xmaquina.io)
- @rainbow: $RNBW airdrop snapshot taken, distribution Feb 5th via mobile app (farcaster.xyz)
- DWeb Camp 2026 (dwebcamp.org)