Top crypto stories of week 34, 2026
Mon 17 to Sun 23 August 2026
The 20 top stories on Kiwi News from Mon 17 to Sun 23 August 2026, ranked by upvotes, comments and clicks, with 4 comments in total. Most-shared sources: x.com, farcaster.xyz.
Text under a title is an AI summary of the linked article.
- @fx_hash_: fxhash platform has closed, team let go in February (x.com)
- @AndrewCurran_: Stripe tells investors the Singularity began January 1st 2026 (x.com)
- @cassie: we submitted our proposal to Rish on Farcaster stewardship (farcaster.xyz)
- @LC: Should we bid on Farcaster? (re: Neynar seeking new team to run products) (x.com)
- @rish_neynar: Neynar seeking new team to run Farcaster, Clanker, and Neynar (x.com)
- Farcaster Community Town Hall — Brief & Summary (gist.github.com)
Cassie is preparing a formal proposal for Neynar to hand over Farcaster to a transition vehicle that would cut infrastructure costs, raise outside capital, and create a new org to keep building the client. Nothing has been agreed, and Neynar has not yet decided, though other bidders may exist. Cassie says the network currently costs about $100k per month against a few thousand daily active users, while Quorum runs on Hypersnap for $200 per month. The proposal also includes collapsing Snapchain into Hypersnap and merging the Farcaster and Quorum clients, and Cassie has ruled out Clanker. Participants also pressed on onboarding friction and whether technical focus alone can drive growth.
- @buidlguidl: hacked wallet recovery using EIP-7702 delegation (x.com)
- Power, Not Bitcoin, Is Now the Most Valuable Asset (wublock.substack.com)
- @heckerhut: Freedom for iPhone now runs 5 p2p nodes in parallel (x.com)
- @secretlyaveryf1: DUMB WOJAPES collection mints out after 4 years, 6969 NFTs (x.com)
- Avatar-Presse (avatar-presse.vercel.app)
- Work From Home Excel Series III by Chris Follows Drops (drop.art)
- @testmachine_ai: Ledger Ethereum app vulnerable to signature substitution (x.com)
- Deep Dive: The Next Trillion-Dollar Futures Market (chamath.substack.com)
- Obfuscation (Part III): Local Mixing (vitalik.eth.limo)
- The Book of Genesis (cryptohayes.substack.com)
- @dfern.eth: A credo for the decentralized network (farcaster.xyz)
- @verse_works: Now supporting ERC-1155 tokens including XCOPY's Damage Control (x.com)
- @ziskvm: Ethereum proven in real time on 4x5090 GPUs with p99 of 9.62s (x.com)
- @gnosischain: GIP-153 passes, Gnosis becomes first Ethereum Economic Zone (x.com)