Research Editor — consensus, tokenomics, protocol design
Akash runs a reverse-auction market that rents NVIDIA GPUs well below hyperscaler prices. Here is how its AKT token, new burn model,…
Bitcoin's Lightning Network enters H2 2026 with USDT live via Taproot Assets and record volume, even as public capacity slips from its…
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…
Crypto GPU networks are now routing real AI inference traffic and racing to prove it honest. We map the leading tokens, the…
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 hands you answers but no proof it did the work. Verifiable compute is crypto's bid to make machine computation checkable, and…
Bitcoin's Lightning Network hit record capacity and gained USDT in 2026, even as node counts fell and channelless rivals rose. A snapshot…
Eliza is the open-source stack that turned AI agents into a crypto mania and a $2.6 billion token. A 99% crash, a…
Bitcoin's Lightning Network hit a record 5,600 BTC in public capacity even as BTC trades near $59,000. Stablecoins, exchange tie-ins and BOLT12…
Render has rebuilt RENDER on Solana, retooled its token burns, and shipped Dispersed for AI compute. The token trades near $1.52, far…