Research Editor — consensus, tokenomics, protocol design
Five years after Taproot unlocked Bitcoin's app layer, the mempool is near empty and fees are under 1% of miner revenue. The…
Verifiable compute promises to prove an AI ran your model correctly. But GPUs cannot reproduce their own answers, and in 2026 fixing…
Bitcoin's difficulty just posted its biggest jump since June, up 4.16% to 132.76 trillion. After a summer of voluntary decline, a price…
Seven weeks after its token died, the Eliza framework keeps shipping and now calls itself an operating system. Can an agent OS…
Bitcoin's rally to $86,000 is bringing idle miners back online and pushing difficulty higher. But the network's real growth ceiling in 2026…
Gensyn's RL Swarm is paused and $AI sits near an all-time low as rivals Prime Intellect and Nous ship real models. Who…
Five years after Taproot, the opcodes Bitcoin builders want most still are not live. Here is how CTV, CSFS and a Taproot-native…
AI agents no longer just chat and trade; they now run DeFi strategies on their own. Inside DeFAI in 2026: the projects,…
Babylon holds roughly 56,853 BTC, more than every Bitcoin Layer 2 combined, yet it insists it is not one. Here is how…
Renting GPUs from a token network can undercut the AI cloud, but the discount is a moving target and trust is still…
