Research Editor — consensus, tokenomics, protocol design
Bitcoin's rally to $86,000 is bringing idle miners back online and pushing difficulty higher. But the network's real growth ceiling in 2026…
Gensyn's RL Swarm is paused and $AI sits near an all-time low as rivals Prime Intellect and Nous ship real models. Who…
Five years after Taproot, the opcodes Bitcoin builders want most still are not live. Here is how CTV, CSFS and a Taproot-native…
AI agents no longer just chat and trade; they now run DeFi strategies on their own. Inside DeFAI in 2026: the projects,…
Babylon holds roughly 56,853 BTC, more than every Bitcoin Layer 2 combined, yet it insists it is not one. Here is how…
Renting GPUs from a token network can undercut the AI cloud, but the discount is a moving target and trust is still…
Lightspark's Spark uses Taproot-era threshold signatures to move Bitcoin and dollars off-chain in an instant. The speed is real; so is the…
Prediction markets are the most transparent venues in finance, which in 2026 made them both the most surveilled and the most exploitable.…
Bitcoin's hashrate is its most-cited metric, yet no one can measure it directly. Here is how it is estimated, why trackers disagree,…
Akash's AI compute demand keeps climbing, yet its active GPU providers just hit a record low and AKT sits below $0.50. Inside…
