Blog Netts
Notes from the Netts team: TRON fees, USDT transfers, APIs and the crypto industry.
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Mining Farms vs AI Datacenters: Battle for Energy, Real Estate and More
Electricity, land, GPUs, workers, subsidies — only so much to go around. The war between crypto miners and AI datacenters is far from settled.
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The Vitalik Doctrine: Buterin's 2025–2026 Essays as Political Theory
Buterin's 2025 essays as political theory — the worldview behind Ethereum, where it holds up, and what it reveals about power and society.
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Crypto's Carry Economy: Funding Rates, Basis Trades and the Hidden Mechanics
Borrow cheap, invest dear, pocket the spread — how carry trades work in crypto, from funding rates to basis plays, and what it actually takes.
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Crypto and Prediction Markets: Polymarket, Kalshi and Similar
From Iowa experiments to Polymarket billions — how prediction markets priced information as a tradeable asset, and why crypto made them global
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Solana Industrial Complex: Memes Making Millions
How Solana became the internet meme coin factory — from Trollface to brainlet, what drives the market, and what is actually under the hood.
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Account Abstraction vs. EOAs: Why You Should Care
Lost card? Call the bank. Lost your private key? Gone forever. Account abstraction bridges that gap — with trade-offs and new attack surfaces.
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Why Cross-chain Bridges Are So Vulnerable to Hacking
Cross-chain bridges have lost over $2 billion in a single year to hacks - here is why bridges keep failing and what actually helps.
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What Is MEV — Justified Fee or Extortion?
MEV extracts billions from blockchain users but it also keeps DeFi markets efficient... right?
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Proof of Stake and Proof of Work: Learn the Difference
PoW and PoS are not interchangeable acronyms — they represent fundamentally different philosophies about how a blockchain earns the right to be trusted.
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Validator Centralization: Cartel in the Making?
Four pools control 51% of all staked Ethereum, two builders produce 80% of its blocks — a clear-eyed look at who really decides what goes on the chain.
