Research Editor — consensus, tokenomics, protocol design
Crypto's GPU networks can serve AI cheaply. The real 2026 question is who actually pays for inference from a GPU they do…
Spark scales Bitcoin by moving keys, not coins, giving wallets offline payments and near-zero fees. The catch is a bounded trust assumption…
For three years zk-ML was a benchmark, not a product. In 2026 the proofs got cheap enough to ship, so the real…
Bark reached Bitcoin mainnet in June and Tether backed Ark Labs with $5.2 million. Here is how Ark's virtual UTXOs lean on…
Autonomous agents now run more than a third of Polymarket's wallets, yet the easy profits are vanishing. Inside the microstructure, the prop-firm…
Taproot let many Bitcoin keys sign as one. In 2026, MuSig2 reached production custody and FROST got its IETF standard, quietly remaking…
A month after Shaw Walters declared the ai16z token dead, its trades deserve a second look. The AI fund that promised autonomous…
Bitcoin's oldest privacy leak is the reused address. Silent Payments, the sp1 code standardized as BIP-352, fixes it using Taproot, and in…
Render spent 2026 supply-constrained and burning tokens, yet RENDER still sits near $1.43. The real shift is strategic: OTOY is building a…
A Bitcoin DeFi sidechain shut down and Layer 2 TVL fell 74% from its peak. Here is what survived the shakeout, from…
