Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, and the base-layer race.
Bitcoin's Lightning Network set a capacity record while USDT went live over its channels. Here is what the institutional money, new tooling,…
Lightning is Bitcoin's payments layer. Here is the channel model in plain English, the 2026 capacity numbers, and the use cases that…
PoW and PoS are not interchangeable. Here is what each consensus mechanism actually does, the energy and security trade-offs, and the verdict…
EIP-1559 replaced Ethereum's fee auction with a base fee and a burn. Here is the spec in plain English, the numbers since…
L2 TVL crossed $50bn in 2025, and EIP-4844 cut rollup costs by roughly 90% overnight. The optimistic-vs-ZK debate is no longer hypothetical…
Block 1,050,000 lands around April 2028, cutting the subsidy from 3.125 BTC to 1.5625 BTC. Daily issuance falls to 225 BTC. Here…
Bitcoin in 2026 is a $1.3T monetary asset with a fixed 21M cap, 10-minute blocks, and a halving every 210,000 blocks. Here…
Three charts settle a debate Ethereum researchers have been having since EIP-1559: gas-per-block, blob inclusion under EIP-4844, and MEV-Boost relay share tell…
312 days to the 5th BTC halving. Subsidy drops 3.125 to 1.5625 BTC at block 1,050,000. CleanSpark, Riot, and Marathon will all…
Solana's v1.18.x cluster upgrade and the SIMD-0123 reward changes cut median optimistic confirmation latency from roughly 480 ms to 240 ms. Here…