Marcus Okafor

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…

BITCOIN & LAYER-1S·JUN 28

Lightning Network in 2026: Stablecoins Arrive, Nodes Thin Out

Bitcoin's Lightning Network hit record capacity and gained USDT in 2026, even as node counts fell and channelless rivals rose. A snapshot…