Research Editor — consensus, tokenomics, protocol design
Zero-knowledge proofs can finally certify real AI models in 2026. The catch is what they certify: a quantized approximation, not the float…
Fees are at the floor and the hype has cooled, making 2026 the cheapest, most forgiving time to inscribe a Bitcoin Ordinal.…
The October 16 difficulty jump cut mining revenue about 5% overnight, yet many miners had already sold that risk forward. Bitcoin's hashrate…
Bittensor's Gamma would let AI subnets pay each other with emission-backed credits instead of dumping tokens. We ask whether it creates real…
The quantum fear aimed at Bitcoin's hashrate hits the wrong target. Mining is the most quantum-resistant layer; the exposed signatures guarding millions…
AKT rallied more than 50% off its autumn lows, but the burn that is supposed to capture Akash’s AI compute stays hidden.…
Not every satoshi is equal. Inside rare sats, Bitcoin's quietest Ordinals market, where single coins trade on rarity and provenance and one…
Block added Bitcoin's Lightning Network to Coinbase's x402 protocol for AI agents. Lightning is now a rail inside a stablecoin-first standard, not…
opML was built to prove AI inference on-chain. In 2026 the money and the trust problem moved to decentralized training, where Gensyn,…
The traders left and ORDI sits 95% below its peak, yet builders turned Bitcoin's block space into a data layer. A new…
