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Anekdota

ἀνέκδοτα · things not given out

Independent research tracing how claims meet architecture.

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The Same Server

An analysis of how the infrastructure of opposition is provided by the entities being opposed, producing a condition in which solidarity and complicity become the same gesture.

Political Economy26 min
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Off Book

An analysis of the off-balance-sheet financing structures funding AI infrastructure, the circular capital flows sustaining them, and what the structural record suggests about systems built on invisible leverage.

Political Economy16 min
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The Name That Names an Empire

An examination of how the vocabulary of Assyrian identity was assembled from missionary education, colonial utility, and ethno-nationalist projects, producing a category that names an empire where an ethnos should be.

Identity26 min
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Yield-Bearing

An analysis of Ondo Finance as a case study in how tokenization reprices a low-margin financial primitive as a high-multiple technology platform, and what the structure reveals about value extraction in RWA infrastructure.

Blockchain Analysis11 min
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After Midnight

An analysis of Midnight Network's technical provenance, privacy architecture, token distribution, and the governance structures that determine whose interests "rational privacy" serves.

Blockchain Analysis17 min
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Trustless

An examination of what prevents trustless systems from achieving what they promise, and what the pattern of prevention reveals about the interests shaping the infrastructure.

Blockchain Analysis20 min
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Manufacturing Demand

An analysis of how dollar hegemony may be transitioning from commodity necessity to behavioural cultivation through stablecoin-native platforms.

Political Economy27 min
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Advancing a Circular Energy Economy for Bitcoin Mining in Canada

A technical policy analysis of Bitcoin mining integration into Canadian provincial electricity systems through circular economy instruments, with verified data, scenario modelling, and full appendices.

Technical Papers21 min
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To No Avail

An analysis of Avail's data availability layer, the economics of external DA, and the question of product-market fit in a post-PeerDAS world.

Blockchain Analysis21 min
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Reconnecting the Dots

An analysis of Polkadot's technical provenance, institutional design, and mechanism economics.

Blockchain Analysis19 min
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Gnot Quite

An analysis of Gno.land's virtual machine, its provenance, execution architecture, and the gap between Gno and Go.

Blockchain Analysis13 min

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