Research Editor — consensus, tokenomics, protocol design
A contentious August fork tried to bolt sidechains onto Bitcoin and mostly failed. Here is how the real Bitcoin Layer 2s work,…
Decentralized inference usage is at record highs while its tokens sit 68 to 98 percent below their peaks. The reason: it is…
Taproot shipped in 2021 as a privacy and efficiency upgrade. Its biggest 2026 payoff is BitVM, the trick that let Citrea launch…
Akash rents Nvidia GPUs through a reverse auction at a fraction of hyperscaler prices, yet real usage still trails the hype. Now…
The token fight on Bitcoin split into two roads by 2026: Runes for on-chain memecoins, and Taproot Assets for stablecoins like USDt…
The 2026 shakeout thinned the herd, but Bitcoin Ordinals did not die. The money that stayed flowed into a handful of blue-chip…
Ora's opML can verify AI on-chain, and now it wants to turn models into revenue-sharing assets through Initial Model Offerings. The technology…
OrdinalsBot, Bitcoin's first inscription service, is winding down, and Magic Eden already quit. Yet with more than 107 million inscriptions etched, the…
Crypto GPU networks now route billions of AI tokens a day and undercut the cloud on price. But the verified traffic is…
One fair-launched dog memecoin, DOG•GO•TO•THE•MOON, is now about 80% of the entire Bitcoin Runes market. Here is how it got there and…
