Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, and the base-layer race.
Bitcoin's Lightning Network shed 17.6% of its capacity in August 2026, its sharpest monthly drop yet. Is the payment layer dying, or…
Bitcoin's Taproot upgrade turns five in November 2026 with modest usage but outsized influence. It now underpins stablecoins, bridges, the covenant fight…
MuSig2 made Bitcoin multisig invisible; Taproot's script path made it programmable. Here is how Miniscript, timelocks, and MAST are quietly rebuilding inheritance…
Spark scales Bitcoin by moving keys, not coins, giving wallets offline payments and near-zero fees. The catch is a bounded trust assumption…
Bark reached Bitcoin mainnet in June and Tether backed Ark Labs with $5.2 million. Here is how Ark's virtual UTXOs lean on…
Taproot let many Bitcoin keys sign as one. In 2026, MuSig2 reached production custody and FROST got its IETF standard, quietly remaking…
Bitcoin's oldest privacy leak is the reused address. Silent Payments, the sp1 code standardized as BIP-352, fixes it using Taproot, and in…
A Bitcoin DeFi sidechain shut down and Layer 2 TVL fell 74% from its peak. Here is what survived the shakeout, from…
Discreet log contracts turned Taproot's Schnorr signatures into a private, non-custodial way to do Bitcoin finance. In 2026, lending is the wedge…
One dog-themed token owns roughly 84% of the Bitcoin Runes market. This is a look at the thin second tier and long…