ARTICLES
A running record of what happened onchain since I started building — the upgrades, the blow-ups, and the tech that just shipped. Newest first. Tap any entry for the full piece.
- Jun 4, 2026#ECOSYSTEM· 12 min
The year the silos converge — cross-chain interoperability grows up
By mid-2026 the bet is that dozens of siloed chains finally start to feel like one network — and DeFi protocols stop performing decentralization and start behaving like software companies.
Read - May 4, 2026#SECURITY· 14 min
Over $1B gone in four months — DeFi's worst security stretch
The sober counterweight to 2026's optimism: more than $1B stolen in four months, a $292M KelpDAO hit, and state actors industrializing the playbook.
Read - Feb 17, 2026#AI· 12 min
AI agents go onchain — from demos to real economic activity
Early 2026's dominant narrative: autonomous agents stop being demos and start transacting for real — with verifiable identity, sub-cent fees, and machine-speed payments.
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- Dec 5, 2025#UPGRADE· 10 min
Fusaka & PeerDAS — blobs get cheaper, again
Data-availability sampling lets nodes verify blob data without downloading all of it. The L2 cost curve keeps bending down.
Read - May 8, 2025#AA· 12 min
Pectra — EIP-7702 turns your EOA into a smart account
Your plain wallet can now temporarily run contract code in a transaction: batching, gas sponsorship, session keys — no migration.
Read - Apr 17, 2025#TECH· 10 min
Intents go mainstream (ERC-7683)
Stop signing transactions, start signing outcomes. You say what you want, solvers compete to deliver it. Cross-chain UX stops being a bridge maze.
Read - Feb 2, 2025#TECH· 14 min
Uniswap v4 ships — pools become programmable
One singleton PoolManager + hooks: arbitrary logic at every swap, mint and burn. Dynamic fees, onchain oracles, MEV capture — a whole design space opened overnight.
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- Apr 10, 2024#TECH· 10 min
Restaking goes live (EigenLayer)
Re-use staked ETH to secure new services and earn extra yield — a new shared-security primitive, and a new layer of risk.
Read - Mar 15, 2024#UPGRADE· 12 min
Dencun — EIP-4844 'blobs' cut L2 fees ~10×
Proto-danksharding gives rollups a cheap, dedicated data lane. Overnight, L2 fees went from cents to fractions of a cent.
Read - Jan 20, 2024#MEME· 12 min
pump.fun & the memecoin supercycle
Permissionless token launches at industrial scale. Brilliant engineering, broken incentives: speed over conviction, bundles at block 0, 99% dead in an hour.
Read - Jan 13, 2024#MARKET· 6 min
Spot BTC & ETH ETFs
TradFi finally got its regulated wrapper. Onchain became a back-end for Wall Street flows.
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- Aug 10, 2023#L2· 6 min
Base launches
Coinbase's L2 brought a wave of new users onchain — and proved a major exchange would build on the OP Stack.
Read - Apr 13, 2023#UPGRADE· 6 min
Shapella — staked ETH can finally be withdrawn
The last missing piece of the Merge. Staking became a round-trip, and liquid-staking tokens exploded.
Read - Mar 3, 2023#AA· 12 min
ERC-4337 — account abstraction without a hard fork
Smart-contract wallets, gasless transactions, social recovery — all at the app layer, no protocol change.
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- Nov 13, 2022#COLLAPSE· 10 min
FTX implodes
The second-largest exchange vanished overnight with customer funds. 'Not your keys' stopped being a meme.
Read - Sep 16, 2022#UPGRADE· 12 min
The Merge — Ethereum moves to proof-of-stake
Energy use dropped ~99.9% in a single, flawless hot-swap of the consensus engine.
Read - Aug 10, 2022#REG· 8 min
Tornado Cash sanctioned
OFAC sanctioned a smart contract. The privacy-vs-regulation fault line cracked wide open.
Read - May 11, 2022#COLLAPSE· 12 min
Terra / UST collapses
An $18B algorithmic 'stablecoin' unwound from $1 to near-zero in days, taking ~$40B with it.
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- Sep 2, 2021#L2· 12 min
The rollup era begins
Arbitrum and Optimism hit mainnet; Ethereum committed to a rollup-centric roadmap. Scaling became an address you bridge to.
Read - Aug 7, 2021#UPGRADE· 10 min
EIP-1559 (London) — fee burning
A base fee that gets burned made gas more predictable and turned ETH partly deflationary. 'Ultrasound money' was born.
Read - Mar 13, 2021#NFT· 8 min
NFTs go mainstream
Beeple sells for $69M; Bored Apes follow in April. JPEGs and a creator gold rush put crypto on every timeline.
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- Dec 3, 2020#UPGRADE· 6 min
The Beacon Chain goes live
Ethereum's proof-of-stake chain launched in parallel with mainnet. The multi-year road to the Merge began.
Read - Sep 17, 2020#DEFI· 8 min
The UNI airdrop
Uniswap dropped 400 UNI to every past user. The airdrop-as-distribution playbook was born.
Read - Jun 17, 2020#DEFI· 10 min
DeFi Summer
Compound's COMP kicked off liquidity mining; yields, money legos and TVL dashboards took over.
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