Research Editor — consensus, tokenomics, protocol design
opML was the pragmatic bet for verifiable AI: cheaper than zk proofs, more trustless than hardware. In 2026 zkML and TEEs closed…
Bitcoin's mining difficulty is below where it sat a year ago, only the second time ever. The first time China banned mining;…
Zero-knowledge machine learning finally proved real language models in 2026, yet every proving token sits 90% or more below its high. The…
Two years after Runes broke Bitcoin's fee records, the story has shifted to the lending markets and smart contracts built on top…
Gensyn's $AI printed a fresh all-time low on August 14, even as Delphi shipped a Trail of Bits audit, an agent SDK,…
Bitcoin's difficulty just retargeted to 127.48 trillion, about 18 percent below its November 2025 record. Here is how the network's two-week thermostat…
Ritual raised over $30 million to make AI inference verifiable on-chain, yet in 2026 it still has no mainnet and no tradeable…
USDT is live on Bitcoin again through Taproot Assets, twelve years after it first left. But the GENIUS Act now decides how…
Optimistic machine learning verifies AI on-chain cheaply by assuming answers are right until challenged. We test whether the bet holds up in…
The July CPI cooled to 3.4%, yet Bitcoin popped to $64,500 and faded. With ETF inflows reversing and the range pressing $63,000,…
