Block Mesh
A live 3D peer-to-peer network: nodes on a fuzzy sphere, gossip links between nearest peers, and transaction pulses propagating hop by hop across the topology.
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Agents That Pay: How x402 Settles a Stablecoin Payment On-Chain
An agent hits an API, gets HTTP 402, signs a stablecoin authorization, and a facilitator settles it on-chain for a fraction of a cent. We trace one real payment on Base down to the gas — and where the trust actually sits.
7 min read ⬢ interactive
What the Blockchain Actually Does in Decentralized AI Training
The gradients never touch the chain. What Solana actually stores when Psyche trains a 36B model across 24 nodes, how TOPLOC audits untrusted GPUs in 258 bytes, and why the flagship 'decentralized' model still shipped from a 512-GPU cluster.
6 min read ⬢ interactive
Optimistic ML Oracles: Verifiable Inference Without the Proof Overhead
Zero-knowledge proofs aren't the only path to trustworthy on-chain AI. Optimistic schemes trade latency for a 1000x cost reduction — here's how dispute games over inference actually work.
2 min read ⬢ interactive