Top crypto stories of week 21, 2026
Mon 18 to Sun 24 May 2026
The 20 top stories on Kiwi News from Mon 18 to Sun 24 May 2026, ranked by upvotes, comments and clicks, with 24 comments in total. Most-shared sources: x.com, firefly.social.
- @lukOlejnik: Telegram exposes auth_key_id over unencrypted TCP enabling tracking (firefly.social)
- @aboutcircles: Circles Garage hackathon for building on community money protocol (firefly.social)
- Keycard: Secure Crypto & Hardware Wallet (keycard.tech)
- Ethereum Foundation Sees 2 More High-Profile Departures (cointelegraph.com)
- @jchaskin22: You cannot understand cypherpunk in 2026 if your framework is macro (firefly.social)
- Cloudflare’s write up on Mythos (x.com)
- @Laguich_: Ethereum Foundation published kohaku-eth/railgun on npm (firefly.social)
- @vitalik.eth: EF will focus on CROPS, longevity over breadth, provable security (farcaster.xyz)
- A shallow dive into formal verification (vitalik.eth.limo)
- Agentic Capital Markets: How Autonomous Agents Will Be Funded (x.com)
- @dankrad: Ethereum needs a $1b+ org funded by staking revenue and accountable (x.com)
- Eric Schmidt booed on university stage for AI remarks (x.com)
- Congress hits Polymarket and Kalshi with a massive insider trading probe (coindesk.com)
- Why we’re at the beginning of the AI hardware boom (pocketcasts.com)
- @github: Employee device compromised via poisoned VS Code extension (x.com)
- VVV: Crypto AI's Most Underappreciated Revenue Story (x.com)
- Layerzero KelpDAO incident report (layerzero.network)
- Digital artists were right all along, says Trevor Paglen (artbasel.com)
- @halecar2: NFTs didn't escape gatekeeping, they just made the hierarchy faster (firefly.social)
- Bitcoin Faces Greater Quantum Computing Risk Than Ethereum, Citi Warns (decrypt.co)