Insights

Base generates 3x more fee revenue than Arbitrum. This is how Coinbase built a business without a token.

Hash price is at all-time lows. Transaction fees are ~1% of miner revenue. The numbers don't work—unless you reframe what these companies actually are.

BlackRock's tokenized fund isn't about democratizing Treasuries. It's B2B infrastructure—and the foundation of the entire rate curve being built on-chain.

Why collateral-first DeFi lending wasn't a limitation, and what institutional adoption says about the next phase of financial infrastructure.

Running a Bitcoin node gives you programmable access to the entire Bitcoin network. These RPC commands are your interface — the same ones that power block explorers, wallets, and every Bitcoin application.

A fact-checked guide for solo stakers. Going offline does NOT get you slashed — these are completely different penalty systems.

Building a dedicated Bitcoin + Lightning node from scratch. Following along as I set up hardware, install Bitcoin Core, and learn the hard way about Ubuntu Server gotchas.

Building an Ethereum node with Nethermind + Prysm — and solving the network-killing CGNAT problem that makes most tutorials useless.

Understanding the 13 layers of crypto infrastructure—from L1 blockchains to developer tooling. A foundational analysis of the entire landscape.

What building production systems taught me about evaluating technology—and why demos rarely tell the whole story.

How I stopped juggling Word docs and PDFs by turning my personal site into a resume management system—with AI assistance.

The mental models from underwriting and risk assessment transfer directly to evaluating technology—here is what carries over.

Autonomous systems are reaching an inflection point. The technology is mature, the business case is clear, but execution remains the differentiator.