Research Editor — consensus, tokenomics, protocol design
Ritual raised over $30 million to make AI inference verifiable on-chain, yet in 2026 it still has no mainnet and no tradeable…
USDT is live on Bitcoin again through Taproot Assets, twelve years after it first left. But the GENIUS Act now decides how…
Optimistic machine learning verifies AI on-chain cheaply by assuming answers are right until challenged. We test whether the bet holds up in…
The July CPI cooled to 3.4%, yet Bitcoin popped to $64,500 and faded. With ETF inflows reversing and the range pressing $63,000,…
Eliza's token is dead and its foundation is winding down, yet the open-source framework keeps shipping code. Here is a builder's verdict…
Lightning's volume and capacity sit near records, yet the nodes routing the network keep vanishing. We follow the money to ask who…
AI agent tokens are fading, but the rails that let bots hold wallets and settle their own bills are going institutional. Inside…
Nearly five years on, Bitcoin Taproot's largest on-chain footprint came from Ordinals, not the privacy win it promised. Here is the honest…
For years, zero-knowledge machine learning was a great idea that could not scale. In 2026, DeepProve and Jolt Atlas proved a full…
Bitcoin just repelled the BIP-110 soft fork aimed at reining in Taproot. Five years on, the upgrade powers stablecoins, multisig and privacy,…
