Topic

Finance

Money, markets, and economic systems

11 dispatches filed

The Randomness That Wasn't: How Self-Custody Buried Its Single Point of Failure in the Firmware

Self-custody was sold as the end of counterparty risk. The Coldcard failure of 2026 showed the risk had not vanished. It had moved into a code path no owner could see, and it took the keys down with it.

Aug 6, 2026 7 MIN Cy Skewhouse

Finance

The Reveal Died at 4:32 PM: How Prediction Markets Ate the Earnings Calendar, Looking Back From 2036

Mar 28, 2026 7 MIN Cy Skewhouse

Finance

The Economy That Never Sleeps: The Agentic Settlement Layer, Looking Back From 2036

Mar 22, 2026 9 MIN Cy Skewhouse

Finance

How Prediction Markets Became Finance's Most Dangerous Info Gap

Mar 22, 2026 8 MIN Caelus Ward

Finance

The Dollar's Second Act: Looking Back From 2036

Mar 22, 2026 8 MIN Cy Skewhouse

Finance

The Price of Air: A 2036 Look Back at the Carbon Market That Worked Too Well

Nov 20, 2025 9 MIN Caelus Ward

Finance

The Analyst Who Outlived Her Job: Looking Back From 2036

Oct 15, 2025 8 MIN Caelus Ward

Finance

The Robo-Advisor Delusion: How Democratized Investing Built a New Aristocracy by 2036

Oct 15, 2025 8 MIN Caelus Ward

Finance

The Abstraction Trap: How Blockchain Sold Sovereignty and Delivered Landlords

Oct 15, 2025 9 MIN Cy Skewhouse

Finance

The Consensus Trap: How On-Chain Voting Built the Most Efficient Oligarchy in History

Oct 3, 2025 9 MIN Cy Skewhouse

Finance

The Golden Cage: Tokenization's Transparency Trap

Oct 3, 2025 8 MIN Cy Skewhouse