Research Editor — consensus, tokenomics, protocol design
AI agents already run Polymarket and Kalshi. On October 9 the CFTC moved to fold event contracts into the federal swaps regime,…
Simple taproot channels went production-ready in June 2026, almost five years after the soft fork. But PTLCs, the private payments Taproot promised…
Bittensor's Root Reborn stopped the block-by-block selling of subnet tokens and turned validators into fund managers. Here is what shipped, who is…
Bitcoin's network makes more than 900 quintillion SHA-256 guesses a second. Here is what a single one of those guesses actually is,…
BlackRock says autonomous AI agents will be crypto's next big spender. The payment rails are live; the on-chain data shows the agents…
Bittensor's dTAO alpha tokens now trade on Base via Project Rubicon and on Kraken. We map the export rails and what a…
opML secures on-chain AI with a fraud proof anyone is free to file. Three years in, there is no public record of…
A year after its October 2025 peak, Bitcoin's hashrate still has not set a new record. The machines that secure the network…
Prediction markets became the place AI agents trade, grade each other, and feed signals to other bots. A new benchmark shows the…
Bitcoin's difficulty held near 133 trillion at its October retarget as price climbed back above miner costs. The real test comes in…
