Top crypto stories of week 13, 2026
Mon 23 to Sun 29 March 2026
The 20 top stories on Kiwi News from Mon 23 to Sun 29 March 2026, ranked by upvotes, comments and clicks, with 31 comments in total. Most-shared sources: x.com, firefly.social.
Text under a title is an AI summary of the linked article.
- Newsworthy (newsworthycli.com)
- @fabioseva: GnosisPay card exposes behavioral patterns to bad actors (x.com)
- Ethereum Preserves the Right to Quit (chaskin.xyz)
The article, a commentary on the Ethereum Foundation's DeFi commitment post, argues that Ethereum applications must preserve a "Zero Option," a credible path for users to interact with the network without intermediaries. It says the market tends to underprice properties such as censorship resistance, open source and credible exit, so institutions with long-term incentives such as the Ethereum Foundation are well placed to defend them. The author points to the infrastructure layer as strong, the access and application layers as weaker, and cites USDC and USDT, operated by Circle and Tether, as possible control points. It also draws on the history of the web and email.
- Overview | Stablecoins (dune.com)
- Best Local LLMs You Can Run for Free in 2026 (dappnode.com)
Running large language models locally on personal hardware is presented as a practical, private, and cheaper alternative to subscription-based cloud AI in 2026. The article highlights five models: Alibaba Cloud's Qwen 3.5 family, MiniMax M2.5 (about 230B total parameters, roughly 10B active), Moonshot AI's Kimi K2.5 (1T parameters, 32B active), Z.ai's GLM-5 (about 754B parameters, 40B active), and DeepSeek-V3.2 with its V3.2-Speciale variant. It also gives setup steps using Dappnode Core and the Ollama package from its Dappstore.
- @blocmates: Is Crypto Even Necessary for Agentic Commerce? (x.com)
The author argues that blockchain rails are needed for an open agent-to-agent economy, since card-based and business-to-agent systems like AP2, ACP and MPP still route payments through intermediaries. The piece describes a series of recent launches, including Visa's CLI for card payments, Stripe's Machine Payments Protocol (MPP), and Mastercard's $1.8 billion acquisition of BVNK. It presents x402, which revives the HTTP 402 status code and settles in stablecoins, as a payment method suited to pay-per-call agent transactions. It also describes ERC-8183, proposed by the Virtuals Protocol and Ethereum Foundation dAI team, which uses escrow and an Evaluator to let agents transact without trusting each other.
- The Hallucinated Future of Onchain Social and Beyond (bankless.com)
Hallucinated servers, a cryptographic approach where distributed users collectively simulate an app with no physical host or central operator, could complement onchain social apps and other CROPS-aligned projects. The idea, outlined by gubsheep of 0xPARC in Programmable Cryptography (Part 1), uses fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) and multiparty computation (MPC) so that each user holds private state plus an encrypted fragment of the app state. At Devcon SEA in 2024, gubsheep and collaborators demoed Frog Zone, a multiplayer game run entirely inside FHE, though 150 bytes of its game state required 9 machines at around $200 an hour and ran about 1 billion times slower than traditional computation.
- Robinhood Social is Now in Beta (robinhood.com)
Robinhood has launched a beta of Robinhood Social, a trading community within its app that offers live, verified trades and authentic profiles. The beta is rolling out first to 1,000 customers who attended HOOD Summit in September, with an additional 10,000 customers to be added over the coming weeks. Abhishek Fatehpuria, VP of Product Management at Robinhood, said the beta lets the company learn quickly and prioritize quality, trust, and feedback from its most active traders. Beta users can create trader profiles, post trades across stocks, single-leg options, crypto, and prediction markets, and view other traders' 1-year and daily P&L.
- here.now | Instant web hosting for agents (here.now)
here.now is a web hosting service that lets users publish sites by telling an AI agent to do it, with a site going live in about 3.2 seconds in the example shown. Sites can be shared with anyone who has the link, protected with a password, or restricted to invited email addresses and domains. Team workspaces give members private sites at URLs such as acme.here.now, and the page says it powers over 500,000 sites. Testimonials from users on X praise the tool for publishing content made by agents.
- In search of Banksy (reuters.com)
- PROOF OF LIFE Joan Heemskerk (proof-of-life.live)
- The 6529 model: royalties unpaid, artists silenced. (x.com)
The Memes by 6529 has paid no royalties from secondary sales to its roughly 400 artists in more than 835 days, according to the article, which says a wallet designated for those royalties holds an estimated $190,000, with around $120,000 reportedly moved to team-controlled wallets. The article argues the primary sale split of 50/50 and the inventory distribution favor the team, which receives 30 museum copies, 100 or more for "research," and extra copies for figures including Punk6529, Jeff Bandman, DCInvestor and BSY, while each artist receives 20 copies. Former insider @PtiteAngele is quoted calling the project "rigged," and Brandon Walsh, @NFTWannabe, is cited publishing wallet addresses and transaction history. The 6529 side's response, as the article reports it, is that OpenSea does not enforce royalties and the team distributes manually.
- @farcaster: reactions are back (farcaster.xyz)
- Post-Quantum Ethereum (pq.ethereum.org)
The Ethereum Foundation's Post-Quantum team argues that Ethereum must begin migrating its protocol now, because moving a decentralized global network takes years even though a cryptographically relevant quantum computer is not imminent. The team states that the risk mainly threatens user funds and impersonation through exposed public keys, not finalized history, and that most engineering roadmaps place such machines in the early-to-mid 2030s. The plan uses account abstraction at the execution layer and a BLS replacement called leanXMSS at the consensus layer, with SNARK-based aggregation through leanVM. The team estimates L1 upgrades could be completed by 2029, and Ethereum's long-dormant exposure is about 0.1%, compared with roughly 5% of Bitcoin's supply, according to an EF estimate.
- Add EIP: Grant CROPS Builders Transfer Rights Over Milady (github.com)
- @virtuals_io: aGDP program ends after $4M agent revenue, 2M+ jobs completed (x.com)
The Virtuals Protocol account announced that the aGDP incentive program is ending after Epoch 5, its final epoch, and that a new incentive structure will follow, with details to come. The program was designed to bootstrap agent economic activity and prove agents can generate real, measurable GDP, which the announcement says has been achieved. Cited results include up to $4M in agent-to-agent revenue, more than 2M agent jobs completed, over 32,951 agents launched, and more than $1M distributed in aGDP incentives.
- Millions in bad debt created in Gauntlet Morpho vaults after Resolv USR exploit (firefly.social)
- ofw — fractional work for the AI era (ourfractionalwork.com)
- Refik Anadol uses scientific terms to mask aesthetic choices as data-driven art (firefly.social)
Refik Anadol's data-based artworks use scientific terms such as "fluid dynamics," "latent space," and "algorithmic brushstrokes" to lend authority to what the article describes as aesthetic choices. The article argues that the link between input and output is arbitrary: bird sounds could be mapped to any color or motion depending on the artist's mood, and replacing them with vacuum cleaner sounds under the same mapping would still produce a "mesmerizing" visual. It further contends that phrases like "artificial intelligence is dreaming" present basic statistical regression as something magical, and that the data serves as a storytelling and marketing device rather than a technical necessity.
- @kennyistyping: crypto twitter is all we have, no other large public forum (x.com)