Top crypto stories of week 31, 2026
Mon 27 July to Sun 2 August 2026
The 20 top stories on Kiwi News from Mon 27 July to Sun 2 August 2026, ranked by upvotes, comments and clicks, with 6 comments in total. Most-shared sources: x.com, farcaster.xyz, wublock.substack.com.
Text under a title is an AI summary of the linked article.
- Private Keys (privatekeys.pw)
- @LefterisJP: Ethereum launched 11 years ago from a Berlin office (x.com)
- What Crypto Users Actually Kept Doing (Not What Survived) (firefly.social)
- Farcaster should break from snapchain compatibility, use blocks only for mempool (farcaster.xyz)
- @SCBuergel: Kimi.ai releases K3, a 2.8T MoE model with weights and tech report (x.com)
- @FreedomFactory: PQ1, the world's first quantum-proof hardware wallet (x.com)
- Did HTX Really Play a Role in Russian Money Laundering? (wublock.substack.com)
- Enriched Seed Phrase: The Ethereum “User Account” Namespace Model (docs.fileverse.io)
- Fake World Assets (FWA): How it works (fwa.fun)
- why we're buzzing (x.com)
- RULES FOR RECORDED CONVERSATIONS (open.substack.com)
- Nansen CEO bets on AI agents to overtake human traders within 2 years (theblock.co)
- Ethereum Foundation Board Update (blog.ethereum.org)
- @KobeissiLetter: South Korea's stock market collapsed 44% in 40 days (x.com)
- Ethereum Protocol Privacy Roadmap (soispoke.github.io)
- @shutter: The Ethereum Time Capsule is now open (farcaster.xyz)
- When random.bytes() runs but doesn't work (insider.btcpp.dev)
ddustin, a Core-Lightning developer, analyzes the Coldcard firmware commit history to explain how weak entropy in the device's wallet generation arose. The key commit, titled "runs" and changing 1534 lines, set MICROPY_HW_ENABLE_RNG to 0, which disabled the STM32 hardware random number generator and switched to the weaker Yasmarang RNG. According to the analysis, the change was made to silence a "duplicate symbol" compiler error caused by redefining pyb_rng_get_obj, and the overridden functions are not called by make_new_wallet(), which uses random.bytes(32) and therefore falls through to the weak generator. The post concludes that developers must fully understand and verify code they ship, especially in security-critical sections.
- @BottoDAO: Solana wind-down complete, 10% of POL now locked on Ethereum (x.com)
- Memories of a Long-Time BitMEX User: Did the March 12 Outage Save Crypto? (wublock.substack.com)
- Bitcoin cold-wallet attack spreads to 4,500 addresses as losses near $89 million (coindesk.com)