Sharing some personal news: after an amazing 2+ years, my adventure at CoinMetrics.io has come to an end. But the journey has only just begun. So excited to announce that Lucas Nuzzi and I are working together on something new.

Hands down the most novel way of visualizing blockchain state I've ever seen. Herculean effort from storm and Georgios Konstantopoulos to map state by application type.

We’re excited to share Portex’s first research paper at the intersection of crypto and AI Check out the paper, "Reputation Oracles: Determining Smart Contract Reputability via Transfer Learning", below: research.portexai.com/reputation-ora…

~68% of Base chain state has been taken over by a single protocol of questionable utility thanks to cheap fees + storage mispricing, a tiny number of users have monopolized the majority of network resources this has implications for every cheap fee blockchain. some thoughts 👇

1/ Where is innovation happening today in crypto? Our latest Portex research post explores recent innovations across the 400+ projects mapped in the Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana ecosystems. research.portexai.com/the-map-of-cry…

i don’t say this lightly, but the “signal and the nonce” is the single most interesting and novel research ever produced in crypto history the mystery of why different mining machines have different nonce selection patterns is real and perplexing karim helmy doesn’t know why