Marcus Okafor

AI X CRYPTO·JUL 4

Prediction-Market Agents: AI Bots Are Rewriting the Odds

Autonomous AI agents drive much of the trading on Polymarket, where volume neared $24 billion a month in 2026. Here is how…

BITCOIN & LAYER-1S·JUL 4

Lightning Network 2026: USDT Goes Live as Public Capacity Slides

Tether's USDT now moves over Bitcoin's Lightning Network via Taproot Assets, and public capacity is rebuilding. Here is where the payment layer…

AI X CRYPTO·JUL 3

ai16z Trades: Inside an AI Crypto Fund’s Rise and Reckoning

ai16z promised an AI-run venture fund that would trade its way past Silicon Valley. Eighteen months on, the token is down more…

BITCOIN & LAYER-1S·JUL 3

Lightning Network Capacity Retreats From Record as USDT Goes Live

Bitcoin's Lightning Network set a capacity record and welcomed live USDT payments in 2026, even as BTC slid to a 21-month low.…

AI X CRYPTO·JUL 2

Akash’s GPU Marketplace: Crypto’s Bid on Cheap AI Compute

Akash runs a reverse-auction market that rents NVIDIA GPUs well below hyperscaler prices. Here is how its AKT token, new burn model,…

BITCOIN & LAYER-1S·JUL 2

Lightning Network in 2026: Stablecoins Arrive as Capacity Cools

Bitcoin's Lightning Network enters H2 2026 with USDT live via Taproot Assets and record volume, even as public capacity slips from its…

BITCOIN & LAYER-1S·JUN 30

Lightning Network 2026: Stablecoins Reach Bitcoin’s Rails

Stablecoins now ride Bitcoin's Lightning Network after Taproot Assets v0.8. Public capacity, falling node counts, and the SEC's stablecoin rulebook pull the…

AI X CRYPTO·JUN 29

Decentralized Inference: Crypto’s Bid to Unseat the AI Cloud

Crypto GPU networks are now routing real AI inference traffic and racing to prove it honest. We map the leading tokens, the…

BITCOIN & LAYER-1S·JUN 29

Lightning Network 2026: USDT Arrives as Bitcoin Cools

Tether's USDT went live on the Lightning Network via Taproot Assets just as Bitcoin slid below $60,000. Inside Lightning's busiest year: capacity,…

AI X CRYPTO·JUN 28

Verifiable Compute: Can Crypto Prove the AI Did Its Job?

AI hands you answers but no proof it did the work. Verifiable compute is crypto's bid to make machine computation checkable, and…