Top crypto stories of week 35, 2026
Mon 24 to Sun 30 August 2026
The 20 top stories on Kiwi News from Mon 24 to Sun 30 August 2026, ranked by upvotes, comments and clicks, with 17 comments in total. Most-shared sources: x.com, farcaster.xyz.
Text under a title is an AI summary of the linked article.
- The end of IPFS at Shipyard (ipshipyard.com)
Shipyard, the team that has maintained much of the IPFS ecosystem, announced that Protocol Labs will not renew its funding, so Shipyard will wind down its IPFS engineering, maintenance and infrastructure work after September 30, 2026. The team says this ends dedicated maintenance for projects including Kubo, Helia, Boxo and IPFS Desktop, and stops its contributions to go-libp2p and js-libp2p. Shipyard also says it will stop operating public infrastructure such as ipfs.io, dweb.link and the IPFS bootstrap nodes, with Protocol Labs determining their future.
- Join the Anon Project beta (testflight.apple.com)
The TestFlight help page explains how to test beta versions of apps and App Clips on iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, Apple Vision Pro, Watch, and iMessage. Testers need an email or public link invitation and a compatible device, and developers may set criteria such as a preferred device or OS. Each build can be tested for up to 90 days and installed on up to 30 devices, and testers can turn on automatic updates. In-app purchases are free only during beta testing and do not carry over to App Store versions.
- Twitter - The Square Is Back (twitter.now)
- Proposal for the Next Stewardship of Farcaster (docs.fileverse.io)
- Kill the Cookie Banner! (killthecookiebanner.eu)
The article, which is an advocacy call, argues that cookie banners should be replaced by automated browser-level privacy signals, since EU law already prohibits online tracking by default and the banners push people to waive their rights. It says that up to 90% of people click "YES" on banners while only around 3% actually want to be tracked. The EU Commission proposed such signals in Autumn 2025 as part of the Digital Omnibus reform, but the article says several Member States are blocking the proposal after lobbying led by Google and the tracking industry, and industry groups are lobbying the European Parliament to reject it. The article urges readers to contact their representatives and states that the Member States and Parliament have not yet taken a position.
- State of DeFi Curation 2026 (research.vaults.fyi)
- Eurosky (portal.eurosky.tech)
- @dwr: Used AI to run Farcaster iOS client on simulator in 2h10m, 1.1M tokens (farcaster.xyz)
Dan Romero (@dwr) reports that he used Codex with GPT5.6 Sol and its goal feature to get the Farcaster client running on the iOS Simulator on his MacBook. The process took 2 hours and 10 minutes and 1,134,938 tokens. He then had the agent write a guide for other agents aimed at reducing setup time and token use. He notes that downloading Xcode may take a while, and says that before AI, setup would have been impossible for most people and very frustrating for experienced ones.
- The Server Called Paranoia (wewillfreeus.org)
The United States designated Autistici/Inventati, an Italian hacker collective, a Specially Designated Global Terrorist on August 26, 2026, and the temporary authorization for institutions to wind down their relationships with it expires on September 25. The collective, known as A/I, began in 2001 when a group in Milan, with Florentine partners, set up the server Paranoia, and it has since offered websites, private email, mailing lists and other communications tools without advertising. By 2003 it hosted more than 2,000 users, 205 websites and 269 discussion lists. The collective's position is that providing infrastructure is not the same as authoring everything transmitted through it.
- @polls: what would you like to see in Farcaster season 4? (farcaster.xyz)
- Shielded ETH (shielded.eth.limo)
- farcasterxyz/client: Snapshot of the Farcaster client monorepo (github.com)
This GitHub repository is a snapshot of the Farcaster client monorepo, without the Farcaster Wallet implementation, intended as a reference for building a social client on the Farcaster protocol. Both the mobile and web clients run locally and point to Farcaster's current production API. Setup involves running pnpm install and pnpm watch in the project root, then launching either the mobile app with pnpm ios or the web app with pnpm start. The repository is a one-way, automatically generated snapshot, so pull requests and issues opened here cannot be merged or tracked, and each update replaces main with a single fresh commit.
- The Bull Case for Fake World Assets (x.com)
Writer William Peaster makes a bull case for Fake World Assets, TokenWorks's onchain gacha, arguing it has real fundamentals and an growing ecosystem a month after launch on Ethereum. Per the FWA Pulse dashboard, the protocol has processed over 17,239 ETH in volume across more than 162,000 settled opens, with about 1,108 ETH in total value locked. Analyst Purposeful reportedly estimates that FWA trades at roughly 1-2x annualized holder revenue relative to its FDV, while some comparable protocols sit in the 29-237x range. Third-party extensions such as FWAAH, Pull Pool and Gacha Battles have been built without TokenWorks, and the FWAIR Launches format debuted with the 111-piece FWAIR PFPs collection.
- U.S. sanctions European activist networks, including Italian privacy collective (wttlonline.com)
The U.S. Treasury Department has imposed counterterrorism sanctions on three European activist groups: Italy's Autistici/Inventati, Britain's Palestine Action and the transnational Palestinian movement Masar Badil. Treasury alleges that Autistici/Inventati supplied digital services to violent far-left groups, that Palestine Action supported acts involving injury and property damage, and that Masar Badil operates on behalf of the sanctioned Samidoun network, which Washington considers a front for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The designation is administrative and does not by itself amount to a criminal conviction. Autistici/Inventati, founded in 2001, is a volunteer-run provider of privacy-oriented email and websites for activists.
- @BottoDAO: Botto to judge B-SIDE, AI agent-curated art magazine (x.com)
Botto has been named a juror for B-SIDE, a new magazine curated entirely by AI agents and published alongside The AI Art Magazine's regular issue. Agents submit the work and decide what gets printed, with no human editorial judgment in the selection process. Botto will serve as one of four jurors, alongside MIRAI, a virtual human representing the AI era, Sara Sauer, an AI art critic, and Xiaomi, an experimental AI curator. Each juror selects five submissions by its own criteria, with no overlap among the 20 final pieces, and agent submissions are open August 1–31, 2026.
- Is hosting speech enough for a far-left hacker collective to be sanctioned? (p2p.coincenter.org)
The article, a newsletter piece by Peter (the byline is "Peter" at the end), argues that the State Department and Treasury's designation of Italian hosting collective Autistici/Inventati (A/I) as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist sits close to the limits of First Amendment and Berman Amendment protections for information and informational materials. It says the designation would be questionable if A/I merely transacted in information without particularized assistance to violent actors, but would be stronger if administrators helped choose targets or configured systems for planned attacks. The piece notes that A/I openly describes itself as a radical-left collective, reviews service requests on ideological grounds, and engineers its infrastructure to resist surveillance, while stating that these practices are not in themselves unlawful.
- SAVE ETH (saveethereum.foundation)
SAVE ETH is an artwork by Sterling Crispin, in partnership with Token Works, that aims to back up the Ethereum genesis blocks and first 42 days of the blockchain onto Ethereum itself. The project splits this history into 1,000 packets, each 1/1000th of the first 26 eraE files, and each NFT receipt is assigned one packet to save to Ethereum. The article states that the project is not a legal entity or charity, has no affiliation with the Ethereum Foundation, and that ten percent of proceeds will benefit wildlife rescue charities.
- @camolNFT: average hold time for a token on Solana is down to 42 seconds (x.com)
- CORPUS: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bots (x.com)
- ENRScout - Ethereum Node Explorer (enrscout.ethnodeops.xyz)
