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When I interviewed for my first Web3 journalism gig back in 2022, I asked the hiring editor what skills would matter most in five years. 'Learn Rust and Substrate,' they said without hesitation. 'That's where the serious infrastructure work happens.' Three years later, that advic

Temporal Note: This analysis was written on July 4, 2026, examining the Pectra Devnet-7 launch and the removal of EOF from the Ethereum protocol upgrade pipeline. The GitHub issue was opened with the clinical detachment of a surgeon preparing to amputate a limb. "Remove EOF from

The Treasury Department's announcement landed with the understated weight of a document that will reshape billions in daily transaction flows. When Secretary Bessent described the proposed rules implementing the GENIUS Act as "establishing the first federal framework for stableco

The envelope arrived on my desk with the kind of bureaucratic understatement that only the Internal Revenue Service can achieve—a single-page notice, dense with regulatory language, announcing what might be the most significant operational change in digital-asset tax compliance s

Temporal Note: This analysis was written on July 3, 2026, examining the Soneium mainnet launch which opened for general availability in early 2026. The email subject line read like a press release from a gaming convention: "Sony Block Solutions Labs Celebrates Soneium Mainnet: A

The notification on my phone came through during my usual Thursday evening tea ritual, and I almost spilled my cup. Polkadot Hub's January 20, 2026 launch date for EVM and PVM smart contracts with 2-second block times wasn't just another blockchain upgrade—it was a fundamental sh

The email landed in my inbox during a routine Tuesday morning coffee review, and I nearly choked on my latte. OriginTrail—already making waves with their Decentralized Knowledge Graph for supply chain and manufacturing—had quietly joined the ELSA initiative, Europe's most ambitio

The email landed in my inbox with the subject line every DeFi reporter has seen a thousand times: "Revolutionary Zero-Fee Liquid Staking." Bifrost, the cross...

The conference room at Treasury felt different that morning. Not the hushed urgency of a financial crisis, nor the bureaucratic routine of a typical briefing. Something in between—a sense that the document being unsealed carried weight beyond its page count.

The envelope arrived in January with the understated urgency that government documents carry. Inside was my first Form 1099-DA from the exchange where I had sold some Bitcoin the previous year. The form listed gross proceeds, cost basis, and the gain I would