Research Editor — consensus, tokenomics, protocol design
Bitcoin's Lightning Network hit record capacity and gained USDT in 2026, even as node counts fell and channelless rivals rose. A snapshot…
Eliza is the open-source stack that turned AI agents into a crypto mania and a $2.6 billion token. A 99% crash, a…
Bitcoin's Lightning Network hit a record 5,600 BTC in public capacity even as BTC trades near $59,000. Stablecoins, exchange tie-ins and BOLT12…
Render has rebuilt RENDER on Solana, retooled its token burns, and shipped Dispersed for AI compute. The token trades near $1.52, far…
Bitcoin's Lightning Network set a capacity record while USDT went live over its channels. Here is what the institutional money, new tooling,…
Lightning is Bitcoin's payments layer. Here is the channel model in plain English, the 2026 capacity numbers, and the use cases that…
PoW and PoS are not interchangeable. Here is what each consensus mechanism actually does, the energy and security trade-offs, and the verdict…
DAOs were sold as on-chain corporations. After ten years of evidence — from The DAO to ConstitutionDAO to ENS — the working…
EIP-1559 replaced Ethereum's fee auction with a base fee and a burn. Here is the spec in plain English, the numbers since…
Gas is the unit Ethereum uses to price computation. Here is how the market works, why fees swing from 8 to 800…