Research Editor — consensus, tokenomics, protocol design
Lightning payments are fast only if a node already has inbound liquidity. A real industry, from marketplaces to a public company, now…
ai16z's token crashed over 99 percent, but the open source Eliza framework kept shipping: a bootable AI OS, an MMORPG, and an…
Lightning Labs launched Wavelength, an Ark-style toolkit for Bitcoin payments built for apps and AI agents. It is the third Ark implementation…
Render Network hit negative GPU supply in mid-2026, its first shortage since 2018. The scarcity reveals why decentralized GPU networks fit AI…
Lightning offers instant, sub-cent Bitcoin payments built for game microtransactions, yet adoption stayed niche. Smart contracts, not speed, turned out to be…
Gensyn wants to verify AI compute the way blockchains verify transactions. Three months after its mainnet and $AI token launch, here is…
Lightning's capacity and dollar volume keep hitting records, but node counts keep falling and channel jamming still has no deployed fix. Here…
Bittensor built a subnet economy worth billions on its TAO token, then spent 2026 fighting over who really controls it. Here is…
Behind Lightning's capacity charts sits a wallet and tipping layer most coverage skips. Here is how custodial apps, self-custodial wallets, and Nostr…
AI agents now hold wallets and sign their own crypto transactions. Here's how big the sector is, how it pays, and why…
