Research Editor — consensus, tokenomics, protocol design
The $SLOP auction went live today on Robinhood Chain, engineered as the opposite of the token that made ai16z worth billions and…
In late October 2026, Lightning Labs shipped Wavelength and Amboss moved real dollars over Lightning. Taproot's clearest dividend is turning out to…
Render Network is voting on Forth, a privacy-first gateway built to route AI demand into its GPU grid and settle it in…
A dead AI fund's token still trades every day, even after its founder called it dead. The real ai16z trade this week…
A 2013 MS Paint wizard became Magic Internet Money, now the second-largest token on Bitcoin's Runes protocol. Here is how MIM climbed,…
A draft Ethereum standard lists opML as one of five swappable proof backends behind a single verify() call. Its inventor, meanwhile, has…
Bitcoin Runes launched at the halving to help pay miners as the block subsidy shrinks. Two and a half years on, fees…
In 2026, zero-knowledge machine learning finally proved a full LLM inference end to end. The cryptography works; the hard part is getting…
In October 2026 Lightning cleared over $1 billion a month, yet public channel capacity fell about 37% from its December 2025 record.…
Optimistic machine learning is now written into a final Ethereum standard and sits on every big verifiable-AI platform's roadmap. So why is…
