Research Editor — consensus, tokenomics, protocol design
Eliza's token is dead and its foundation is winding down, yet the open-source framework keeps shipping code. Here is a builder's verdict…
Lightning's volume and capacity sit near records, yet the nodes routing the network keep vanishing. We follow the money to ask who…
AI agent tokens are fading, but the rails that let bots hold wallets and settle their own bills are going institutional. Inside…
Nearly five years on, Bitcoin Taproot's largest on-chain footprint came from Ordinals, not the privacy win it promised. Here is the honest…
For years, zero-knowledge machine learning was a great idea that could not scale. In 2026, DeepProve and Jolt Atlas proved a full…
Bitcoin just repelled the BIP-110 soft fork aimed at reining in Taproot. Five years on, the upgrade powers stablecoins, multisig and privacy,…
Bitcoin is stuck in the mid-$60,000s, about 48% below its October 2025 record, as a weak US jobs report and a hawkish…
Shaw Walters just declared the ELIZAOS token dead and is winding down its foundation to settle a class action. The open-source Eliza…
Autonomous AI agents now hold wallets, trade, and pay each other on-chain. But 2026 brought a reckoning: prompt-injection drains, a dead $2…
Bitcoin Runes pushed network traffic to a two-year high in 2026, two years after the protocol broke fee records at the halving.…
