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Written by David Christopher • 2 days ago • 3 min read Can Crypto Save the Internet? Bots are strip mining the open web. Cloudflare's CEO thinks x402 and stablecoins are the solution.... Analysis 3 0

Written by William M. Peaster • 3 days ago • 4 min read Why HYPE Is Running Hyperliquid is up big YTD and just hit a new ATH. Here's what's behind the run.... Analysis 2 0

Written by William M. Peaster • 4 days ago • 3 min read The Art of Making Onchain Objects Last InfiNFT had the right answer to decentralized storage in 2020. Now, Forever Library is taking up the... Analysis 1 0

Written by William M. Peaster • 4 days ago • 2 min read Ethereum Is Going to Bat for Privacy Protocols Devs are removing the structural obstacles facing Ethereum's privacy protocols.... Analysis 0 0

Written by William M. Peaster • 5 days ago • 3 min read V1 CryptoPunks Just Got Their Marketplace Back V1s can now trade through the original 2017 contract without wrappers.... Analysis 2 0

Written by David Christopher • 5 days ago • 7 min read How USDC Wins the Hyperliquid Deal Tether dominates Binance, but Coinbase just installed USDC on Hyperliquid. The battle for stablecoin... Analysis 1 0

Written by William M. Peaster • 6 days ago • 3 min read Ethereum's Wikipedia for Smart Contracts A look at 'Ethereum History,' a grassroots archive working to contextualize the earliest deployments... Analysis 1 0

Written by David Christopher • 1 week ago • 3 min read Venice Amidst the Inference Shift Cerebras' IPO marked AI's shift from training to inference. Venice's ecosystem, with tokens like DIE... Analysis 1 0

Written by William M. Peaster • 1 week ago • 3 min read How to Build Your Own NFT Record on Ethereum Catalog is a new tool on PND that lets artists curate a record of their Ethereum NFTs. ... Analysis 4 0

Written by Jack Inabinet • 1 week ago • 4 min read How Papertrade Turns Liquidations Into Ownership A new perps exchange pioneers one of crypto’s strangest and most innovative trading mechanisms yet... Citizen-only Analysis 1 0

Written by David Christopher • 1 week ago • 5 min read How Congress Wants to Grade Crypto Decentralization The long-awaited crypto market structure bill aims to get crystal clear on what decentralized crypto... Analysis 1 0

Written by David Christopher • 1 week ago • 4 min read Plugging Hyperliquid into Your AI Stock Trading Stack Tokenized AI stocks landing on Hyperliquid are opening the door to automated perp and spot strategie... Citizen-only Analysis 1 0

Written by William M. Peaster • 1 week ago • 1 min read The NFT Recovery Continues NFT markets haven't been this hot in over a year.... Analysis 5 0

Written by Jack Inabinet • 1 week ago • 4 min read Crypto Exchanges Lean Harder Into Prediction Markets Amid tough retail trading volumes, crypto exchanges are getting more aggressive with prediction mark... Analysis 3 0

Written by David Christopher • 2 weeks ago • 6 min read The Week Solana Brought Google to x402 Pay.sh shows x402 moving from unauthorized API wrappers toward native integrations, with Google Clou... Analysis 1 0

Written by William M. Peaster • 2 weeks ago • 4 min read How to Play Stomp on MegaETH Want a fun gateway into MegaETH? Consider Stomp, a slick new onchain monster battler. ... Analysis 4 0

Written by Jack Inabinet • 2 weeks ago • 3 min read The Top Airdrop Hunts of May 2026 This month, we're looking for early airdrop opportunities on the blazing fast MegaETH network.... Citizen-only Analysis 3 0

Written by David Christopher • 2 weeks ago • 5 min read Can Congress Get CLARITY Across the Line? Senators resolved one key dispute, but fights over developer protections and ethics rules could thre... Analysis 3 0

Written by William M. Peaster • 2 weeks ago • 3 min read Uniswap V4 Hooks Are New Terrain for Onchain Collectibles Hook-based collectibles via Uniswap V4 offer a new format for onchain creatives. ... Analysis 4 0

Written by Jack Inabinet • 2 weeks ago • 5 min read A New Era of Mass Surveillance Is Taking Shape As tech-driven surveillance capabilities scale exponentially, the U.S. government is pushing through... Analysis 6 0

Written by David Christopher • 2 weeks ago • 5 min read Breaking Down Hyperliquid’s Prediction Play The HIP-4 upgrade brings “outcome markets” to the much-hyped exchange, adding binary trading alo... Citizen-only Analysis 6 0

Written by David Christopher • 3 weeks ago • 5 min read Agents and x402 Make DeFi Safer When used properly, agents can shrink DeFi’s attack surface while helping users react to live risk... Analysis 3 0

Written by William M. Peaster • 3 weeks ago • 2 min read The Cryptoart Community Is Salvaging Foundation's Art Onchain infrastructure doesn't go dark when a company does.... Analysis 5 0

Written by Jack Inabinet • 3 weeks ago • 5 min read Tracking Down Safer Yields in DeFi DeFi just got reminded that yield doesn’t matter when the system breaks down. Here are five onchai... Citizen-only Analysis 1 0

Written by David Christopher • 3 weeks ago • 4 min read Can MEGA Defy the Bear Market? MegaETH's MEGA token is launching into a tough market, but real usage and novel design could give it... Analysis 3 0

Written by William M. Peaster • 3 weeks ago • 3 min read Are NFTs Back? The NFT market cap is at its lowest since summer 2021, yet top Ethereum collections are surging.... Analysis 2 0

Written by Jack Inabinet • 3 weeks ago • 3 min read Where Aave’s Exploit Recovery Effort Stands Recovery efforts have stabilized Aave after the KelpDAO exploit, but governance delays and legal ris... Analysis 4 0

Written by David Christopher • 1 month ago • 4 min read Who Authorized This? The Gray Area of x402 x402 needs native integrators to succeed. Unauthorized wrappers could turn potential partners into a... Analysis 1 0

Written by David Christopher • 1 month ago • 5 min read AI Rewrites the DeSci Equation AI is collapsing drug discovery costs, expanding what DeSci communities can fund and explore.... Analysis 4 0

Written by William M. Peaster • 1 month ago • 2 min read Solving Crypto's Frontend Problem What if a frontend couldn't be hijacked by design? A look at the move toward decentralized browser t... Analysis 5 0

Written by David Christopher • 1 month ago • 6 min read Productive Money: The ETH Thesis Grows Up Etherealize just dropped a report making the case for $250K ETH. The argument closes a loop Bankless... Analysis 7 0

Written by Jack Inabinet • 1 month ago • 4 min read DeFi Shaken by rsETH Attack Many users remain unable to withdraw from Aave V3 as the protocol grapples with hundreds of millions... Analysis 3 0

Written by David Christopher • 1 month ago • 5 min read CC0's Second Coming AI has finally given CC0 the expansion engine it always needed. The proof is in the games.... Analysis 0 0

Written by Jack Inabinet • 1 month ago • 4 min read Is Strategy's STRC the 'Greatest Ponzi Known to Man'? Michael Saylor’s perpetual preferred stock pitch is attracting overwhelming interest — and uneas... Citizen-only Analysis 0 0

Written by William M. Peaster • 1 month ago • 3 min read A New Creative Suite for Artist-Owned AI Models TITLES Studio lets artists train custom AI models on their own work and earn USDC royalties on every... Analysis 2 0

Written by William M. Peaster • 1 month ago • 3 min read What's New in Paradigm's Reth 2.0 Paradigm's EVM execution client just got a 2.0 upgrade with plenty of speed enhancements.... Analysis 3 0

Written by David Christopher • 1 month ago • 5 min read Personal Agents, Local Models, and the Security Question Agents are knowledge systems first. Local models make them more private, but security gaps loom. ... Analysis 1 0

Written by David Christopher • 1 month ago • 6 min read Can DeFi Survive Mythos? The existential threats facing DeFi, the risk users are taking on, and the nascent solutions.... Analysis 2 0

Written by Jack Inabinet • 2 months ago • 3 min read How Legacy Institutions See DeFi in 2026 A Bank of Canada report offered a window into how legacy institutions see the opportunities and risk... Analysis 2 0

Written by Jack Inabinet • 2 months ago • 4 min read Circle Faces Drift Fallout The shock hack and unimpeded fallout is leaving plenty in the industry pointing fingers at the USDC ... Analysis 2 0

Written by William M. Peaster • 2 months ago • 3 min read Paragraph's New Content Marketplace for Humans and Agents Publish lets you sell digital work directly to humans or AI agents, just price and deploy.... Analysis 2 0

Written by David Christopher • 2 months ago • 5 min read Quantum Threat Puts Bitcoin on the Clock Five takeaways from our podcast interview with Nic Carter on Bitcoin's quantum timeline.... Analysis 2 0

Written by David Christopher • 2 months ago • 4 min read The Micropayments Breakthrough The Linux Foundation now officially houses x402 as agentic commerce grows at hyperspeed.... Analysis 7 0

Written by Jean-Paul Faraj • 2 months ago • 4 min read Safenet: The Security Layer Crypto Has Been Missing Safe launched a decentralized validator network that blocks malicious transactions before they execu... Analysis 3 0

Written by William M. Peaster • 2 months ago • 5 min read The NFT UX Revolution: Part 2 Innovations like the Ethereum Economic Zone and EIP-8141 are about to change everything around NFTs.... Analysis 8 0

Written by Jack Inabinet • 2 months ago • 4 min read The Top Airdrop Hunts of April 2026 April showers bring May flowers - an important reminder for hunting airdrops.... Citizen-only Analysis 4 0

Written by David Christopher • 2 months ago • 5 min read The Side Hustle Economy's Crypto Moment Whop's new Treasury product is taking its creator economy marketplace onchain.... Analysis 2 0

Written by Jack Inabinet • 2 months ago • 4 min read Aave’s Next Act: Inside the V4 Overhaul The DeFi giant's next iteration goes live.... Analysis 3 0

Written by William M. Peaster • 2 months ago • 4 min read The NFT UX Revolution: Part 1 Innovations like the Ethereum Economic Zone and EIP-8141 are about to change everything around NFTs.... Analysis 5 0

Written by William M. Peaster • 2 months ago • 4 min read What's the Ethereum Economic Zone? Ethereum's liquidity fragmentation problem might not be an issue for much longer. ... Analysis 6 0

Written by David Christopher • 2 months ago • 4 min read The Signal is Fake Retail investors trust the feed. The feed can't be trusted.... Analysis 3 0

Written by David Christopher • 2 months ago • 5 min read Perps Trading Seizes Its Moment Wartime trading is onboarding retail to perpetuals as Trump-driven headlines move markets over the w... Citizen-only Analysis 2 0

Written by Jack Inabinet • 2 months ago • 7 min read Decoding the SEC’s Token Taxonomy The new framework attempts to classify crypto assets and clarify securities law boundaries. Let's se... Analysis 0 0

Written by David Christopher • 2 months ago • 6 min read Stripe's Tempo Makes Its Case Tempo’s launch signals more industry momentum — and tradeoffs — ahead.... Analysis 2 0

Written by David Christopher • 2 months ago • 5 min read Cloudflare's Choice: Coinbase or Stripe x402 vs. MPP is the wrong debate. The real question is who Cloudflare picks to issue the NET Dollar.... Analysis 4 0

Written by David Christopher • 2 months ago • 5 min read Starknet Goes All-In on Privacy Starknet is leaning into privacy infrastructure as the race to differentiate from the Ethereum L1 in... Analysis 2 0

Written by Jack Inabinet • 2 months ago • 3 min read DeFi’s Sleeper Yield Opportunity How Convex Finance is still serving top farming opportunities four years after its peak.... Citizen-only Analysis 0 0

Written by William M. Peaster • 2 months ago • 4 min read The Hallucinated Future of Onchain Social and Beyond Hallucinated servers can be combined with Ethereum's onchain primitives to power new kinds of crypto... Analysis 2 0

Written by David Christopher • 2 months ago • 5 min read Mapping Out Crypto's Midterms Fate Democrats are poised to upset the balance in Congress; which midterm races matter most for the crypt... Analysis 5 1

Written by Jack Inabinet • 2 months ago • 6 min read Where Crypto Is Rewiring Capital Markets How crypto is opening private markets, IPOs, and capital formation to a much wider audience.... Analysis 2 0

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