David Thompson
Senior Protocol Layer Analyst
David Thompson is a seasoned expert in the Protocol Layer industry with over a decade of experience in network architecture and cybersecurity. He spec...
OP Stack fault proofs: Exclusive Stage-1 Best Unlocks
OP Stack chains now ship fault proofs that move them into a Stage-1 security model. That shift changes who you trust, how you withdraw, and how the network...
GMX v2: Exclusive Best Guide to Iso Pools & Risk Engines
GMX v2 splits market risk into isolated pools and uses a rules-based engine to price that risk in real time. Traders get deep liquidity and clear fees....
Cross-chain security models: Best, Exclusive Guide
Bridges move value and data between blockchains. They also introduce new attack paths. A clear view of cross-chain security models helps you pick safer routes,...
ERC-4337 Smart Accounts: Best Bundlers, Exclusive UX
ERC-4337 turns externally owned account limitations into modern app-like flows. It adds a mempool for UserOperations, a common EntryPoint contract, and...
EIP-7702 vs EIP-3074: Exclusive Guide to Safer Wallets
Wallets want smart-account superpowers without breaking addresses. Two proposals promise that by letting an Externally Owned Account (EOA) delegate control for...
Blobs after EIP-4844: Exclusive L2 Costs, Best Trade-Offs
EIP-4844 moved data availability for rollups into a new lane: blobs. The result is a different cost curve for every L2, especially once traffic starts to spike...
Cryptocurrency payment platform: Best Must-Haves – Inqud
Accepting digital assets is no longer fringe. Retailers, SaaS startups, and marketplaces use crypto to cut settlement times and reach customers who pay in...
Single-Slot Finality: Exclusive, Best Timelines & Economics
Single-slot finality (SSF) aims to make a block irreversible within one slot, eliminating the multi-epoch wait seen in current proof-of-stake systems. It...
PBS to ePBS: Exclusive, Effortless Censorship Resistance
Ethereum’s fee market now runs through professional builders. That shift unlocked massive MEV revenue, but it also created new choke points. When a handful of...
Uniswap v4 Hooks: Must-Have AMM Extensions, Avoid Risks
Uniswap v4 introduces “hooks,” small onchain programs that can run at precise points in a pool’s lifecycle. They extend AMM behavior without forking core code,...
Arbitrum Stylus: Exclusive, Effortless Rust/WASM Contracts
Arbitrum Stylus lets you write smart contracts in Rust (and other WASM languages) that run alongside Solidity on an Ethereum Layer 2. It adds a WebAssembly...
SUAVE & MEV-Share: Exclusive, Effortless Orderflow Value
Orderflow carries value. Who captures it depends on where a transaction travels, who sees it, and when. SUAVE and MEV-Share reshape this path so users, not...
Chainlink CCIP: Exclusive, Effortless Tokens & Messages
Blockchains don’t talk to each other by default. Chainlink’s Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) closes that gap by moving tokens and arbitrary data...
CCIP Token Manager: Exclusive, Best CCT Design Tips
Cross-chain isn’t just about moving bytes between networks. It’s about preserving token semantics, safety guarantees, and user expectations while assets cross...
CCIP Token Manager: Exclusive, Best CCT Design Tips
Cross-chain isn’t just about moving bytes between networks. It’s about preserving token semantics, safety guarantees, and user expectations while assets cross...
GMX v2 Exclusive: Best Look at Pools, Risk & LP Math
GMX v2 refactors perpetual trading into cleaner primitives: isolated liquidity pools, parameterized risk controls, and transparent LP accounting. The design...
Perps DEXs: Exclusive Best dYdX Orderbook vs GMX/Perp
Perpetual futures live on two very different rails in DeFi. One path uses a traditional orderbook with makers and takers, like dYdX. The other leans on...
dYdX v4 Appchain: Exclusive Best Orderbook & Matching
dYdX v4 rebuilt perpetuals on a dedicated blockchain so the orderbook and matching live with consensus, not beside it. That architectural shift changes...
Cryptocurrency Payment Services: How They Work and What to Look For
Cryptocurrency payment services let businesses accept crypto such as Bitcoin or stablecoins and get paid in a way that feels as simple as card payments. For...
Cross-chain security models: Best Exclusive Guide
Moving assets and data across blockchains is useful only if users can trust the result. The core question is simple: who verifies that an event on chain A is...
Uniswap v4 Must-Have Hooks: Effortless Fees & TWAMM Flows
Uniswap v4 introduces hooks: user-defined smart contracts that run at key moments in a pool’s lifecycle. For swaps, you get two powerful touchpoints— before...
Uniswap v4 Must-Have Hooks: Effortless Fees & TWAMM Flows
Uniswap v4 introduces hooks: user-defined smart contracts that run at key moments in a pool’s lifecycle. For swaps, you get two powerful touchpoints— before...
Building Safer Hooks: Best Must-Have Audit Checklists
Hooks are irresistible. They let other code run at key moments—before saving a record, after a swap, when a payment clears. That flexibility is also a wide...
Verkle Trees: Best, Must-Have Upgrade for Ethereum Clients
Verkle trees cut state size, reduce network chatter, and speed up block verification. They replace Merkle-Patricia tries with a structure that needs tiny...