Research Editor — consensus, tokenomics, protocol design
Autonomous AI agents hold wallets and sign their own transactions, but can you trust one you have never met? Inside ERC-8004, Agent…
A four-megabyte wizard became a $37.5 million campaign to change Bitcoin's base layer. The collection's real price is the odds that OP_CAT…
The hard part of zk-ML was never the idea; it was making the proof. In 2026 that job became a market: proof…
Wall Street is shut for the weekend, but Bitcoin never is. As the 39th anniversary of Black Monday arrives, BTC is holding…
The 2026 midterms are the first US election whose odds are set largely by bots, not people. Inside the record volumes, the…
Bitcoin is stuck in the low $80,000s, over 30% below its record. The anniversary of the $19 billion 10/10 crash now meets…
Zero-knowledge proofs can finally certify real AI models in 2026. The catch is what they certify: a quantized approximation, not the float…
Fees are at the floor and the hype has cooled, making 2026 the cheapest, most forgiving time to inscribe a Bitcoin Ordinal.…
The October 16 difficulty jump cut mining revenue about 5% overnight, yet many miners had already sold that risk forward. Bitcoin's hashrate…
Bittensor's Gamma would let AI subnets pay each other with emission-backed credits instead of dumping tokens. We ask whether it creates real…
