Research Editor — consensus, tokenomics, protocol design
Bitcoin's Lightning Network set a capacity record while USDT went live over its channels. Here is what the institutional money, new tooling,…
Lightning is Bitcoin's payments layer. Here is the channel model in plain English, the 2026 capacity numbers, and the use cases that…
PoW and PoS are not interchangeable. Here is what each consensus mechanism actually does, the energy and security trade-offs, and the verdict…
DAOs were sold as on-chain corporations. After ten years of evidence — from The DAO to ConstitutionDAO to ENS — the working…
EIP-1559 replaced Ethereum's fee auction with a base fee and a burn. Here is the spec in plain English, the numbers since…
Gas is the unit Ethereum uses to price computation. Here is how the market works, why fees swing from 8 to 800…
Six months, 59 payments, and $112 in fees on a self-hosted Lightning node. Notes from someone who came to Bitcoin's L2 with…
Three Ethereum forks — The Merge, Shanghai/Capella, and Dencun — tested the Geth maintainer team in ways the all-core-devs calls rarely show.…
Three charts settle a debate Ethereum researchers have been having since EIP-1559: gas-per-block, blob inclusion under EIP-4844, and MEV-Boost relay share tell…
Solana's v1.18.x cluster upgrade and the SIMD-0123 reward changes cut median optimistic confirmation latency from roughly 480 ms to 240 ms. Here…
