Research Editor — consensus, tokenomics, protocol design
Lightspark's Spark uses Taproot-era threshold signatures to move Bitcoin and dollars off-chain in an instant. The speed is real; so is the…
Prediction markets are the most transparent venues in finance, which in 2026 made them both the most surveilled and the most exploitable.…
Bitcoin's hashrate is its most-cited metric, yet no one can measure it directly. Here is how it is estimated, why trackers disagree,…
Akash's AI compute demand keeps climbing, yet its active GPU providers just hit a record low and AKT sits below $0.50. Inside…
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…
