Deep Dives
Deep dives into Web 3.0, future and present.
How to Run an AI Model Locally—And Why You Might Want To
Open-weight AI models now trail the best closed models by only about four months on average, and a growing number of them run on hardware you probably already own. "Open-weight" means the company publishes the weights, the files holding everything the model learned, so anyone can download and run them. Two free programs, Ollama and LM Studio, handle the rest, and Gemma 4 downloads in Ollama's library range from about 4.6GB to 20GB. With open models, you don't need to pay $20 a month for an AI su...
May 31, 2026
Long Reads
How President Trump’s Immigration Order Will Feed the Stablecoin Economy, Bitcoin ATMs
When President Donald Trump’s family faced growing pressure from banks, it embraced crypto. Now, immigrants who are in the U.S. illegally face a similar choice under what policy experts describe as a move that could force people out of the traditional banking system. On May 19, the president issued an executive order “to restore integrity to America’s financial system.” In the name of national security, the directive tasked federal regulators such as the Treasury Department with considering rule...
May 22, 2026
Long Reads
Crypto Is Growing Up—Why Some Everyday Traders Are Moving On
Crypto’s chaotic, meme-driven energy once made it a playground for digital adrenaline junkies. But as the market matures, everyday retail traders who braved the trenches are finding the asset class increasingly boring. Cole, a 34-year-old crypto trader based in the U.S., told Decrypt that he’s seen an increasing number of peers within his Discord-based trading group complain and vent frustrations about how price action has gotten less fun to trade as time has progressed. “It’s been shitty for a...
May 21, 2026
Long Reads
Why DeFi Keeps Losing Millions to Exploits
It’s been one of the worst years on record for DeFi hacks, and we’re barely halfway through. In the first five months of 2026, more than $840 million was lost to DeFi hacks—with April alone accounting for more than $600 million stolen, led by two of the year’s biggest attacks: the $292 million KelpDAO exploit and the $285 million Drift Protocol breach. The losses have continued into May, with THORChain halting trading after security researchers flagged a suspected cross-chain exploit affecting m...
May 3, 2026
Long Reads
You Installed Hermes. Now Make It Look Better Than ChatGPT or Claude
So you installed Hermes. You ran it, asked it some things, it remembered them, maybe even built a skill on its own. Pretty good. But now you're staring at a terminal window and wondering if this is really it. It doesn't have to be. The Hermes community has been building user-interface wrappers at a pace that would embarrass most funded startups. Some of them are genuinely great. A few are beautiful. One of them might make your friends think you built something expensive. Here are the four best...
Apr 28, 2026
Long Reads
Inside Trump’s Meme Coin Bash: Foreign Guests, Iran War Riffs, and Mar-a-Lago Charm
President Donald Trump on Saturday attended a conference for top holders of his meme coin, delivering off-the-cuff remarks for nearly an hour to an adoring crowd of crypto investors, tech executives, hedge fund managers, and MAGA diehards. The event, held at Mar-a-Lago, landed as the Trump family’s sprawling crypto portfolio faces growing scrutiny on Capitol Hill, causing divisions even among Republicans as key crypto legislation stalls in Congress. Yet the president appeared undeterred this we...