Yuki Tanaka

              DEFI &AMP; ON-CHAIN·AUG 27
            

Liquid Staking in 2026: Yield, Liquidity and the One-Third Problem

Liquid staking turns locked ETH into a token you can trade, lend and borrow against. It also handed one provider close to…

              WALLETS &AMP; EXCHANGES·AUG 26
            

Account Abstraction in 2026: Passkeys and the End of the Seed Phrase

Account abstraction is retiring crypto's twelve-word seed phrase, swapping it for passkeys and social recovery. Here is how a fingerprint became a…

              MINING &AMP; STAKING·AUG 26
            

Hashprice in 2026: The One Number That Prices a Mining Day

Bitcoin's August rally lifted hashprice from $31.89 to near $38 without a single new machine plugged in. Here is what the number…

              DEFI &AMP; ON-CHAIN·AUG 26
            

The Curator Reckoning: How DeFi Lending Broke in 2026

On-chain lending lost hundreds of millions in 2026, yet almost none of it came from a protocol bug. Here is how Stream,…

              WALLETS &AMP; EXCHANGES·AUG 25
            

EIP-7702 in 2026: The Complete Guide to Smart-Account Wallets

Fifteen months after Pectra, EIP-7702 turned ordinary Ethereum addresses into programmable smart accounts. Here is how set-code wallets work, who adopted them,…

              MINING &AMP; STAKING·AUG 25
            

SSV Restaking in 2026: DVT, Based Apps, and the Great Unwind

SSV is Ethereum's largest distributed validator network, not an EigenLayer-style restaking protocol. Here is what DVT and Based Applications really do, as…

              DEFI &AMP; ON-CHAIN·AUG 25
            

Aave vs Morpho: The Two Engines of On-Chain Lending in 2026

Aave crossed $30 billion in deposits and Morpho passed $11 billion; together they run most of on-chain credit. Two protocols, the same…

              WALLETS &AMP; EXCHANGES·AUG 24
            

EIP-7702 in 2026: The Smart-Account Switch and Its Dark Side

A USENIX study found 63% of early EIP-7702 authorizations pointed at attacker code. Here is how Ethereum's set-code wallet upgrade works, and…

              MINING &AMP; STAKING·AUG 24
            

Bitcoin Mining Margins in 2026: The Operating-Leverage Machine

Bitcoin's August rally lifted the price by roughly a quarter and mining margins by much more. Here is why mining is operating…

              WALLETS &AMP; EXCHANGES·AUG 23
            

Account Abstraction in 2026: The New Attack Surface

Smart accounts can batch trades, sponsor gas, and log in with a passkey. The same programmability that powers those features is crypto's…

Articles by Yuki Tanaka