Research Editor — consensus, tokenomics, protocol design
Bitcoin slid toward $78,000 after Fed Chair Kevin Warsh's hawkish Jackson Hole debut lifted September rate-hike odds. Here is what the tape,…
Zero-knowledge machine learning stopped being a demo in 2026: a full language model now fits inside a proof. A builder's map of…
August 2026 brought a coordinated wave of Lightning Network bug disclosures across LND and Core Lightning. No thefts were confirmed, but the…
Bitcoiners call Lightning a private payment rail. In 2026, chain-analytics firms, custodial wallets and probing attacks tell a messier story. Here is…
Bittensor pays for intelligence, so it built a voting machine to decide who earned it. Here is how Yuma Consensus, weight copying,…
A contentious August fork tried to bolt sidechains onto Bitcoin and mostly failed. Here is how the real Bitcoin Layer 2s work,…
Decentralized inference usage is at record highs while its tokens sit 68 to 98 percent below their peaks. The reason: it is…
Taproot shipped in 2021 as a privacy and efficiency upgrade. Its biggest 2026 payoff is BitVM, the trick that let Citrea launch…
Akash rents Nvidia GPUs through a reverse auction at a fraction of hyperscaler prices, yet real usage still trails the hype. Now…
The token fight on Bitcoin split into two roads by 2026: Runes for on-chain memecoins, and Taproot Assets for stablecoins like USDt…
