Research Editor — consensus, tokenomics, protocol design
Autonomous AI agents now place a large share of the bets on Polymarket and Kalshi, and machines increasingly decide who won. Inside…
Bitcoin's mining difficulty has slid all year, the classic setup for a capitulation buy signal. But in 2026 miners are leaving by…
Bittensor's TAO has climbed in 2026, but a governance revolt, mid-game emission rule changes, and a pending US spot ETF are testing…
Taproot made Bitcoin more private by publishing public keys on-chain, which is exactly what a quantum computer would need. Inside BIP-360, BIP-361…
opML was the pragmatic bet for verifiable AI: cheaper than zk proofs, more trustless than hardware. In 2026 zkML and TEEs closed…
Bitcoin's mining difficulty is below where it sat a year ago, only the second time ever. The first time China banned mining;…
Zero-knowledge machine learning finally proved real language models in 2026, yet every proving token sits 90% or more below its high. The…
Two years after Runes broke Bitcoin's fee records, the story has shifted to the lending markets and smart contracts built on top…
Gensyn's $AI printed a fresh all-time low on August 14, even as Delphi shipped a Trail of Bits audit, an agent SDK,…
Bitcoin's difficulty just retargeted to 127.48 trillion, about 18 percent below its November 2025 record. Here is how the network's two-week thermostat…
