Top crypto stories of week 36, 2026
Mon 31 August to Sun 6 September 2026
The 20 top stories on Kiwi News from Mon 31 August to Sun 6 September 2026, ranked by upvotes, comments and clicks, with 11 comments in total. Most-shared sources: x.com, farcaster.xyz, github.com.
Text under a title is an AI summary of the linked article.
- Massive leak of global KYC documents for sale on Nexus; FBI investigates (arstechnica.com)
- Gnosis Pay: The Next Era (gnosispay.com)
- Pacto (covenant-gov.github.io)
Pacto is a community messaging and governance tool that offers end-to-end encrypted chat, on-chain proposals and voting, and a shared treasury without middlemen holding the keys. Its site says it is built so no one can read members' messages, freeze their funds, or shut down the group. Encryption is described as the default rather than an optional mode, and group decisions are recorded on chain so outcomes are durable and hard to rewrite. The tool is described as live on macOS, Linux, and Windows, with source code also available to build.
- fermats-last-theorem (github.com)
- Ethereum Supply (ethsupply.fyi)
- @CypherDAO: working Commodore 64 emulator running on Ethereum (x.com)
- Who killed the Cryptoanarchist? (x.com)
- EIP-8141: Frame Transaction (eips.ethereum.org)
EIP-8141 is a draft Core standards-track proposal, authored by Vitalik Buterin, lightclient, Felix Lange and others, that adds a Frame Transaction type (FRAME_TX_TYPE 0x06). The transaction is decomposed into a sequence of frames, which are contract calls that validate the transaction, approve gas payment, and execute user operations. The stated motivations include a native path to post-quantum secure systems, native key rotation, native batch call processing, and alternative fee payment without centralized relayers. The specification defines frame modes (DEFAULT, VERIFY, SENDER), signature schemes (ARBITRARY, SECP256K1, P256), gas constants, and a receipt format that records the payer and per-frame gas usage.
- GNO-Backed Credit for the Gnosis Treasury (forum.gnosis.io)
- Shapes (shapes.ripe.wtf)
- @LefterisJP: Rhysida released 5.4TB of data from Berlin government hack (x.com)
- picowallet: A stablecoin hardware wallet from three Amazon parts, no soldering. (github.com)
- @cassie: if you're building on hypersnap, post a link to your client (farcaster.xyz)
- Kento: A New Way to Collect Art (kickstarter.com)
- vitalik.eth: Transaction actions vs dependencies and EIP-8141's role in scaling (farcaster.xyz)
- @Liquid_BTC: white-hat hackers withdrew 4,000 BTC from Liquid Federation wallet (x.com)
- Bernie Sanders proposes Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act (sanders.senate.gov)
- vitalik.eth: 33% chance SNARKs, FHE, and iO reach 1+ε overhead in the future (farcaster.xyz)
Vitalik Buterin estimates a 33% chance that, for average real-world computation, SNARKs, FHE, and iO can each be implemented with 1+ε overhead, meaning the added cost of cryptographizing a computation becomes arbitrarily small relative to the base cost for large enough instances. He gives a 60% chance that all three can be done with single-digit overhead, below 10x measured in total energy cost plus amortized compute. He says a good chance exists of reaching one of these, probably SNARKs with single-digit overhead, by the end of this decade, pointing to existing results for specialized hash functions and some LLM inference.
- another lost opportunity (x.com)
- Reg Crypto (citationneeded.news)