Research Editor — consensus, tokenomics, protocol design
A fund its own founder called dead, yet ELIZAOS still jumped 41% in a day. Here is how ai16z actually trades in…
The AI fund that once hit a $2.39 billion market cap is dead and its founder owns none of it. So why…
Every 17,500 Bitcoin blocks, Runes opens a shorter tier of names; the five-letter tier unlocks around mid-December 2026. Here is why short…
After years as a testnet with a phantom token, Ritual shipped its AI-native mainnet and listed RITUAL on Coinbase. The token promptly…
Bitcoin's Runes still clear through hand-signed PSBTs, one on-chain transaction at a time. Here is why that makes the market thin by…
The 2026 US midterms are the first national election scored live by prediction markets, and bots now dominate the trading. Here is…
Blockworks gave crypto inference its first real scoreboard: seven networks move about 211 billion tokens a day, near 1% of OpenRouter's traffic.…
In four weeks, all three major Lightning clients shipped emergency patches, and Core Lightning warned attackers were hunting unpatched nodes. Here is…
Eliza's token is worth a fraction of its $2.4 billion peak, yet the open-source framework keeps shipping. Here is how it works,…
NodeMonkes was the first 10,000-piece collection inscribed fully onto Bitcoin and the first Bitcoin NFT to top a million dollars. Here is…
