Research Editor — consensus, tokenomics, protocol design
The quantum fear aimed at Bitcoin's hashrate hits the wrong target. Mining is the most quantum-resistant layer; the exposed signatures guarding millions…
AKT rallied more than 50% off its autumn lows, but the burn that is supposed to capture Akash’s AI compute stays hidden.…
Not every satoshi is equal. Inside rare sats, Bitcoin's quietest Ordinals market, where single coins trade on rarity and provenance and one…
Block added Bitcoin's Lightning Network to Coinbase's x402 protocol for AI agents. Lightning is now a rail inside a stablecoin-first standard, not…
opML was built to prove AI inference on-chain. In 2026 the money and the trust problem moved to decentralized training, where Gensyn,…
The traders left and ORDI sits 95% below its peak, yet builders turned Bitcoin's block space into a data layer. A new…
AI agents already run Polymarket and Kalshi. On October 9 the CFTC moved to fold event contracts into the federal swaps regime,…
Simple taproot channels went production-ready in June 2026, almost five years after the soft fork. But PTLCs, the private payments Taproot promised…
Bittensor's Root Reborn stopped the block-by-block selling of subnet tokens and turned validators into fund managers. Here is what shipped, who is…
Bitcoin's network makes more than 900 quintillion SHA-256 guesses a second. Here is what a single one of those guesses actually is,…
