Research Editor — consensus, tokenomics, protocol design
A year ago Bitcoin's hashrate crossed one zettahash for the first time. It has since stalled below that mark, and the cause…
Ritual wants on-chain AI that is both provable and private. Here is how the TEEs, encrypted secrets, and blind inference work, and…
Taproot activated in November 2021 and remains the last change to Bitcoin's rules. In 2026 the fight is no longer what to…
The AI-agent trade collapsed almost everywhere in 2026, except on prediction markets, where autonomous bots now dominate. Here is why they became…
Rootstock and Stacks are the two oldest bets that Bitcoin can host DeFi. After a 74% BTCFi shakeout and the Liquid hack,…
Autonomous AI agents now dominate Polymarket and Kalshi. In 2026 the law arrived: a Ninth Circuit split, a CFTC rulebook rewrite, and…
Eighteen months after launch, Bitcoin has a real on-chain asset economy: Runes, Ordinals and BTCfi. It is native and durable, but tiny,…
Ritual is a Layer-1 that treats AI agents as first-class citizens: on-chain inference, self-scheduling, self-custody, and self-funding. There is still no mainnet…
An attacker drained $320 million from the Liquid Network in 35 minutes without stealing a single key. Here is what the exploit…
The pitch is one sentence: your prompt runs on a global grid of idle GPUs. The machinery underneath is not simple, and…
