Research Editor — consensus, tokenomics, protocol design
Gensyn wired up its $AI buy-and-burn loop: Delphi fees, a canonical Uniswap V3 deployment, a 70% burn. With the token near record…
A near-dead soft fork called BIP-110 opens its mandatory signaling window this weekend, aiming to curb the on-chain data that Taproot made…
Trusted execution environments quietly became verifiable AI compute's default choice. Two 2025 attacks showed the hardware attestation behind them can be forged…
Bitcoin's Lightning Network shipped BOLT12 offers and splicing in 2026, but LND still lacks both natively. The gap is reshaping wallets, liquidity…
ELIZAOS hit a fresh all-time low the same week its Eliza framework preps its biggest commercial launch yet. Here is how the…
opML verifies AI results on-chain with fraud proofs, not costly cryptography, borrowing the optimistic rollup playbook. Here is how Ora Protocol's challenge…
Nostr's relay network is running out of money, and Lightning micropayments were supposed to fix that. Paid relays, zaps, and proof of…
zk-ML's louder promise is proving an AI told the truth. Its more useful one, now live in biometrics and DeFi lending, is…
Steak 'n Shake, BTC Inc and Block are proving Lightning payments work at real registers. Here is how the merchant stack, fees…
Bitcoin's Lightning Network moves dollars faster and cheaper than Visa's card rails, but Tron and Solana still carry far more stablecoin volume.…
