Polkadot

The announcement arrived on July 7, 2026, with the polite language of a network that had spent four years building its own blockchain infrastructure and was now admitting that infrastructure was not where the users were. Moonriver—the Kusama parachain that had served as the canar

I was on a call with a DeFi protocol founder when the news broke. Hyperbridge's Token Gateway had been exploited, and all bridging operations were paused. The founder's first question wasn't about the attacker. It was: 'How long until they publish a detailed recovery plan?' In th

I was in Seoul last spring watching a delivery robot navigate a busy sidewalk when it suddenly stopped at a crosswalk. Not because of a pedestrian, but because its battery was running low and it needed to find a charging station. The robot knew where it was, but it didn't know wh

I was reviewing exchange data last month when a metric caught my attention. $PEAQ spot trading volume had climbed to $234 million in Q2 2026, more than triple the Q1 figure. For a token that launched its TGE just over a year ago, that kind of velocity is not typical. It suggested

I have been to enough hackathons to know the difference between the ones that matter and the ones that do not. The ones that matter put real hardware in the room. The ones that do not hand you a API key and a Zoom link. In October, peaq is putting a Doosan A0509 cobot in a room i

I watched a quadruped robot finish its evening survey of a solar farm last month. Hours of thermal footage, and a defect report due before the morning shift. The robot had more data than it could process, and the nearest cloud instance was a login screen, a credit card, and a hum

The Twitter thread arrived at 2 AM on a Tuesday. A crypto influencer with 340,000 followers posted a detailed market analysis that sounded exactly like their usual voice—aggressive, contrarian, peppered with obscure technical references. Within four hours, the post accumulated 12

I have watched the same Twitter account post the same conspiracy theory under three different handles in the same thread. I have seen bot farms amplify political messages until the platform itself could not distinguish organic from artificial engagement. And I have watched develo

I sat through the Web3 Summit presentation in Berlin last month waiting for the usual blockchain pitch. Instead, Parity Technologies demoed something genuinely different: a messaging protocol that does not write anything to a blockchain, does not rely on a central server, and sti

I have watched builders evaluate Layer 1 chains for years, and the conversation usually follows the same pattern. Transactions per second. Finality time. Token price. The assumption is that blockchains are essentially interchangeable, differentiated only by speed and cost. That a