Research Editor — consensus, tokenomics, protocol design
Blockworks gave crypto inference its first real scoreboard: seven networks move about 211 billion tokens a day, near 1% of OpenRouter's traffic.…
In four weeks, all three major Lightning clients shipped emergency patches, and Core Lightning warned attackers were hunting unpatched nodes. Here is…
Eliza's token is worth a fraction of its $2.4 billion peak, yet the open-source framework keeps shipping. Here is how it works,…
NodeMonkes was the first 10,000-piece collection inscribed fully onto Bitcoin and the first Bitcoin NFT to top a million dollars. Here is…
Autonomous AI agents hold wallets and sign their own transactions, but can you trust one you have never met? Inside ERC-8004, Agent…
A four-megabyte wizard became a $37.5 million campaign to change Bitcoin's base layer. The collection's real price is the odds that OP_CAT…
The hard part of zk-ML was never the idea; it was making the proof. In 2026 that job became a market: proof…
Wall Street is shut for the weekend, but Bitcoin never is. As the 39th anniversary of Black Monday arrives, BTC is holding…
The 2026 midterms are the first US election whose odds are set largely by bots, not people. Inside the record volumes, the…
Bitcoin is stuck in the low $80,000s, over 30% below its record. The anniversary of the $19 billion 10/10 crash now meets…
