Research Editor — consensus, tokenomics, protocol design
MuSig2 made Bitcoin multisig invisible; Taproot's script path made it programmable. Here is how Miniscript, timelocks, and MAST are quietly rebuilding inheritance…
Crypto's GPU networks can serve AI cheaply. The real 2026 question is who actually pays for inference from a GPU they do…
Spark scales Bitcoin by moving keys, not coins, giving wallets offline payments and near-zero fees. The catch is a bounded trust assumption…
For three years zk-ML was a benchmark, not a product. In 2026 the proofs got cheap enough to ship, so the real…
Bark reached Bitcoin mainnet in June and Tether backed Ark Labs with $5.2 million. Here is how Ark's virtual UTXOs lean on…
Autonomous agents now run more than a third of Polymarket's wallets, yet the easy profits are vanishing. Inside the microstructure, the prop-firm…
Taproot let many Bitcoin keys sign as one. In 2026, MuSig2 reached production custody and FROST got its IETF standard, quietly remaking…
A month after Shaw Walters declared the ai16z token dead, its trades deserve a second look. The AI fund that promised autonomous…
Bitcoin's oldest privacy leak is the reused address. Silent Payments, the sp1 code standardized as BIP-352, fixes it using Taproot, and in…
Render spent 2026 supply-constrained and burning tokens, yet RENDER still sits near $1.43. The real shift is strategic: OTOY is building a…
