Research Editor — consensus, tokenomics, protocol design
Gensyn cracked trustless AI compute, yet five months after mainnet its training swarm is quiet while a prediction market carries the load.…
Rayon Labs' three subnets command almost a quarter of all TAO emissions, and Chutes is the rare Bittensor subnet that truly sells…
Listed miners get the headlines, but they run barely a third of Bitcoin's hashrate. Here is who actually secures the network in…
opML made on-chain AI verifiable by borrowing optimistic rollups: publish now, challenge later. But 2026's autonomous agents need speed, and the challenge…
Bitcoin's difficulty just posted its biggest jump since June, yet it still carries a decade-old flaw: the timewarp bug. Here is how…
AI agents place most of the bets on Polymarket, but every payout hinges on a separate layer that decides what actually happened.…
Five years after Taproot unlocked Bitcoin's app layer, the mempool is near empty and fees are under 1% of miner revenue. The…
Verifiable compute promises to prove an AI ran your model correctly. But GPUs cannot reproduce their own answers, and in 2026 fixing…
Bitcoin's difficulty just posted its biggest jump since June, up 4.16% to 132.76 trillion. After a summer of voluntary decline, a price…
Seven weeks after its token died, the Eliza framework keeps shipping and now calls itself an operating system. Can an agent OS…
