Top crypto stories of week 15, 2026
Mon 6 to Sun 12 April 2026
The 20 top stories on Kiwi News from Mon 6 to Sun 12 April 2026, ranked by upvotes, comments and clicks, with 21 comments in total. Most-shared sources: x.com, firefly.social.
Text under a title is an AI summary of the linked article.
- @TreeNewsFeed: Iran to charge tanker transit tolls in Bitcoin, says Hosseini (x.com)
- @orb: you can edit your posts now (orb.club)
Orb now lets users edit their posts, as @mishaderidder announced on 8 April 2026, ending the need to delete and repost. A later reply shared a quick guide for finding the feature, though the guide itself is not included. Commenters mostly welcomed the change, with one calling it a needed update. Another asked whether the feature is free, noting they pay a monthly subscription to X for the same ability.
- @LorenzoARK: Monthly developer count in crypto fell, AI makes it irrelevant (x.com)
Lorenzo argues that monthly developer count in crypto, a metric he says the industry has long relied on, is becoming irrelevant as AI makes code generation essentially free. He notes that the monthly developer count has just fallen to levels not seen since 2017. Historically, developer count and activity served as a rough proxy for human capital and mindshare in an L1 or L2 ecosystem because writing code was expensive. With AI, one developer can produce what previously took several, so a lower count may reflect fewer developers producing better products rather than a weaker ecosystem. He asks what Electric Capital and Avichal think of the view.
- gm, I‘m timdaub‘s alt
- Nokori (残り) by Andrew Mitchell (andrewmitchell-art.xyz)
Andrew Mitchell describes Nokori, a collection of 401 fully on-chain, EVM-generated artworks built with SVG, CSS and embedded vanilla JavaScript, all constructed purely through Solidity string concatenation with no third-party libraries or HTML canvas elements. Each piece pairs an SVG image with an HTML animation that appends textures to the SVG. Mitchell says the project's name means remnants and regret, and that after two years of building and scraping it back, the work is what remains. He writes that the pieces are meant to look worn down, as if time has left its marks on them, and that he wants the images, rather than his own narration, to tell the story.
- @NotSoEasyMoney: printed 5 billion of their own tokens then withdrew it as USDC (x.com)
- FBI extracted deleted Signal messages from iPhone notification storage (firefly.social)
- @zerion: Web app taken down as precaution, mobile apps and extension safe (firefly.social)
- @EFF: After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X (firefly.social)
- Safe OpenSig. See What You're Actually Signing. (candide.dev)
Safe OpenSig is a verification app for professional multisig signers that runs Safe transaction simulations locally and shows a mirror of the Ledger screen before signing. The article says it addresses two unverified trust points that it links to Bybit's February 2025 loss of $1.5 billion, where signers approved transactions whose Ledger screens displayed only a hash. Local simulation runs on the user's device and requires unanimous agreement from multiple independent nodes on the prestate. The app was developed with the World Foundation, works with Ledger Nano S, S+, and X, and is currently free, with a flat monthly subscription planned.
- Lunar Flyby (nasa.gov)
- @tenobrus: Anthropic has capacity to attack US, China with frontier AI models (x.com)
Tenobrus argues that Anthropic, and a small number of individuals there, currently have the capacity to directly attack and cause major damage to the US government, China, and other global superpowers. He says government agencies like the NSA have no internal models or defenses that outclass frontier models, and that such access to undisclosed zero-day vulnerabilities would give a large asymmetric advantage. He notes Anthropic did not exploit this, but publicly released information about these capabilities and worked to mitigate the flaws. He also predicts the US government will seize and nationalize labs within the next two years, and says OpenAI's internal models are unlikely to be far behind.
- Kiwi News Weekly Digest — Apr 11, 2026 (buttondown.com)
- @peerxyz: PeerAuth evolved from payment proofs to Peer Verify identity (firefly.social)
- A return on discovery (substrateservices.substack.com)
The article argues that the true value of spaceflight lies in what it returns to Earth, and that space pursuits should be judged by whether their benefits reach people broadly. It draws on Buckminster Fuller's 1969 definition of wealth as the capability to sustain healthy regeneration of the planet's population, and it describes the scientific case made by Carl Sagan's comparative planetology. It cites BioOrbit, whose orbital antibody crystals could enable at-home cancer treatment, and Orbital Paradigm's reusable reentry capsules as examples of return-focused work.
- Privacy Watch (privacy.watch)
privacy.watch lists Monero with 87.82% dominance of the privacy coin market, which totals 11.36 billion USD against a 2.29 trillion USD total crypto market cap, both as of October 12, 2026. Zcash follows with 10.69% dominance and a shielded market cap of 1.21 billion USD, while Zano, Pirate Chain and Litecoin each hold under 1%. The site says it selects coins by privacy technology, real data protection and an ecosystem with a market cap above 100 million USD, and states that growing regulation has increased demand for privacy by default.
- @worldlibertyfi: We have the contracts and evidence, see you in court Justin (x.com)
- Trump-Linked Crypto Tokens Face Renewed Scrutiny After Plummeting in Price (cointelegraph.com)
Crypto tokens and projects promoted by President Donald Trump have fallen to all-time lows or near record lows, drawing renewed scrutiny. The Official Trump token (TRUMP) hit an all-time low of about $2.73 in March 2026 and was trading at about $2.86, according to CoinGecko, and is down about 90% from its January 2025 high of over $73. The governance token of World Liberty Financial, a DeFi platform co-founded by Trump's sons, hit an all-time low of $0.07 on Saturday, nearly 75% below its September 2025 high of about $0.31. Senators Elizabeth Warren, Richard Blumenthal and Adam Schiff have asked Bill Zanker, who launched the Trump memecoin, for details on a planned April gala, according to Politico, which obtained the letter.
- China orders Apple to pull Dorsey's Bitchat, the app used during Iran protests (coindesk.com)
Apple removed Bitchat, a decentralized messaging app created by Block CEO Jack Dorsey, from its China App Store at the request of Beijing's internet regulator, Dorsey disclosed in an X post. The Cyberspace Administration of China said the app violated rules for online services with "public opinion or social mobilization capabilities," which require security assessments before launch. Bitchat works over Bluetooth and mesh networks without an internet connection, and it has been used during recent protests in Madagascar, Uganda, Nepal, Indonesia, and Iran. It remains available in other countries.
- The Last Quiet Thing (terrygodier.com)
The author argues that many everyday objects, from thermostats and cars to phones and apps, now demand ongoing maintenance, leaving people with unfinished obligations rather than finished possessions. The essay contrasts a $12 Casio watch, which it describes as finished and asking nothing of its owner, with a $400 Apple Watch that tracks steps, sleep and heart rhythms and "dies every night." It presents Apple's Screen Time, introduced in 2018, as framing excessive phone use as the user's fault, and it calls the resulting guilt manufactured by an industry and wellness culture that profit from that participation.