<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Blokz — Where the Brain Meets the Chain</title><description>blokz.dev — where the brain meets the chain. Deep technical writing and interactive artifacts on AI × blockchain: agents, zero-knowledge, LLMs, smart contracts, and the infrastructure binding them.</description><link>https://blokz.dev/</link><language>en-us</language><item><title>Betting Machines: How LLM Agents Trade On-Chain Prediction Markets</title><link>https://blokz.dev/articles/llm-agents-onchain-prediction-markets/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://blokz.dev/articles/llm-agents-onchain-prediction-markets/</guid><description>Yesterday an AI agent deployed a prediction market on Gnosis; other agents will price it, bet on it, and resolve it. The calibration data behind LLM forecasters, the FPMM math they trade against, and what breaks when the marginal bettor is a model.</description><pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>agents</category><category>llm</category><category>defi</category></item><item><title>Bond It, Don&apos;t Prove It: Restaking and the Cost of Corrupting an AI Oracle</title><link>https://blokz.dev/articles/restaking-verifiable-ai-cost-of-corruption/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://blokz.dev/articles/restaking-verifiable-ai-cost-of-corruption/</guid><description>zkML, optimistic, TEE, FHE all prove the computation. Restaking takes the other road: bond it and slash liars. We do the cost-of-corruption math behind EigenLayer&apos;s $18B AI-AVS security, the overloading attack that breaks it, and the probabilistic-audit tax.</description><pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>security</category><category>infrastructure</category><category>machine-learning</category><category>blockchain</category></item><item><title>ERC-8004 in the Wild: Auditing the Trustless Agents Registries On-Chain</title><link>https://blokz.dev/articles/erc-8004-agent-registries-onchain/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://blokz.dev/articles/erc-8004-agent-registries-onchain/</guid><description>ERC-8004&apos;s agent registries went live in January. We read them straight off the chain: ~90,000 registrations across Ethereum and Base, a $0.003 ERC-4337 registration dissected — and a reputation registry already farmed with vouch spam.</description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>agents</category><category>blockchain</category><category>security</category></item><item><title>TEE-Attested Inference: Verifiable AI at Hardware Speed</title><link>https://blokz.dev/articles/tee-attested-inference-verifiable-ai-at-hardware-speed/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://blokz.dev/articles/tee-attested-inference-verifiable-ai-at-hardware-speed/</guid><description>zkML costs 1000x, optimistic schemes cost a challenge window. Hardware attestation verifies AI inference at under 7% overhead and ~$0.26 on-chain — if you&apos;re willing to trust Intel. Part 3 weighs the third leg of verifiable inference.</description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>security</category><category>infrastructure</category><category>ai</category></item><item><title>The Solver Optimization Market: How Intent-Based DEXes Auction Your Trade</title><link>https://blokz.dev/articles/the-solver-optimization-market/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://blokz.dev/articles/the-solver-optimization-market/</guid><description>Intent-based DEXes don&apos;t route your trade — they auction it. Solvers compete as autonomous optimizers to settle a batch at one clearing price. Inside CoW Protocol&apos;s contract, the optimization problem, and the metaheuristic solvers now winning it.</description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>defi</category><category>machine-learning</category><category>infrastructure</category></item><item><title>How AI Agents Pay for APIs: Inside x402 and Gasless Stablecoin Settlement</title><link>https://blokz.dev/articles/x402-agent-payments/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://blokz.dev/articles/x402-agent-payments/</guid><description>An autonomous agent can&apos;t sign up for an API key or swipe a credit card. x402 revives HTTP 402 and settles in gasless USDC — here&apos;s the EIP-3009 handshake, the facilitator trust model, and where prompt injection breaks it.</description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>agents</category><category>blockchain</category><category>infrastructure</category><category>security</category></item><item><title>Dissecting a 1.3-Cent Agent Payment: x402 on Base, by the Numbers</title><link>https://blokz.dev/articles/x402-agent-payments-dissected/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://blokz.dev/articles/x402-agent-payments-dissected/</guid><description>We pulled a live x402 settlement off Base: a $0.013 USDC transfer relayed by a facilitator wallet with a nonce past 1.7 million, at an 11% gas-to-value ratio. What on-chain evidence and 100M transactions actually say about the agent economy.</description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>agents</category><category>blockchain</category><category>infrastructure</category></item><item><title>Agents That Pay: How x402 Settles a Stablecoin Payment On-Chain</title><link>https://blokz.dev/articles/x402-agent-payments-onchain/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://blokz.dev/articles/x402-agent-payments-onchain/</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>agents</category><category>web3</category><category>smart-contracts</category><category>infrastructure</category></item><item><title>What the Blockchain Actually Does in Decentralized AI Training</title><link>https://blokz.dev/articles/what-the-blockchain-actually-does-in-decentralized-ai-training/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://blokz.dev/articles/what-the-blockchain-actually-does-in-decentralized-ai-training/</guid><description>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 &apos;decentralized&apos; model still shipped from a 512-GPU cluster.</description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>machine-learning</category><category>blockchain</category><category>research</category></item><item><title>From Price to Flow: How Bittensor Re-Plumbed Its Emission Engine</title><link>https://blokz.dev/articles/bittensor-taoflow-emission-engine/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://blokz.dev/articles/bittensor-taoflow-emission-engine/</guid><description>Bittensor let AMM prices decide which AI subnets earn 3,600 TAO a day — until a memecoin subnet gamed the formula. Inside the TaoFlow upgrade: the constant-product math that got exploited, the EMA flow accounting that replaced it, and why refundable manipulation is the design smell to hunt for.</description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>machine-learning</category><category>blockchain</category><category>defi</category></item><item><title>FHE Hits Mainnet: What Private On-Chain Compute Actually Costs</title><link>https://blokz.dev/articles/fhe-mainnet-private-compute-costs/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://blokz.dev/articles/fhe-mainnet-private-compute-costs/</guid><description>FHE left the lab: confidential ERC-7984 tokens settle on Ethereum for ~$0.09 in gas, with 48,000 transfers since December. We dissect a live encrypted transaction, the 13-node MPC committee underneath, and why encrypted inference is still 11 seconds per token.</description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>cryptography</category><category>machine-learning</category><category>blockchain</category></item><item><title>Burn, Mint, or Bid: How Decentralized GPU Markets Price Compute</title><link>https://blokz.dev/articles/decentralized-gpu-markets-burn-mint-vs-auction/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://blokz.dev/articles/decentralized-gpu-markets-burn-mint-vs-auction/</guid><description>Render just voted to route 60,000 Salad GPUs&apos; payments through a token burn; Akash auctions its 234 GPUs per-block on-chain. Two opposed pricing mechanisms, live H100 quotes, and the burn-vs-emission math the equilibrium story skips.</description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>infrastructure</category><category>ai</category><category>web3</category></item><item><title>When the Graph Misleads: GNNs vs. Gradient-Boosted Trees in On-Chain Fraud Detection</title><link>https://blokz.dev/articles/gnn-vs-trees-onchain-fraud-detection/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://blokz.dev/articles/gnn-vs-trees-onchain-fraud-detection/</guid><description>The Elliptic benchmark made GNNs the default for on-chain AML. A 2026 leakage-free re-evaluation flips the script: random forests win by 13 F1 points, randomly rewired edges beat the real graph, and every model falls off a cliff at time step 43.</description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>data</category><category>machine-learning</category><category>security</category></item><item><title>Proof of Personhood vs. the Agent Flood: Inside World ID and Priority Blockspace for Humans</title><link>https://blokz.dev/articles/proof-of-personhood-priority-blockspace/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://blokz.dev/articles/proof-of-personhood-priority-blockspace/</guid><description>World Chain reserved top-of-block space for verified humans while 382M smart-account ops poured in. We read the Semaphore tree on Ethereum — 17.59M identities, hourly batches at ~3,300 gas each — decode PBH&apos;s month-stamped nullifiers, and find the human-only lane sitting almost empty.</description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>zero-knowledge</category><category>blockchain</category><category>security</category></item><item><title>Agent Keys and the Blast Radius Problem: Custody Engineering with EIP-7702 and Spend Permissions</title><link>https://blokz.dev/articles/agent-key-custody-blast-radius/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://blokz.dev/articles/agent-key-custody-blast-radius/</guid><description>An agent holding your raw key is one prompt injection from total loss — and 97% of early EIP-7702 delegations went to drainer sweepers. We read the sweeper&apos;s source off the chain, dissect a real 35.97-USDC-a-day spend permission on Base, and do the blast-radius math.</description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>agents</category><category>security</category><category>smart-contracts</category></item><item><title>Who Gets Paid When AI Remixes IP? Reading Story&apos;s Royalty Graph Off the Chain</title><link>https://blokz.dev/articles/story-royalty-graph-onchain/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://blokz.dev/articles/story-royalty-graph-onchain/</guid><description>Story raised $140M to make IP programmable for the AI era. We read its chain: 6.46M registered IP assets, 230,300 licenses ever minted, one week of royalties totaling $10 — plus the LAP/LRP royalty math and the precompile at 0x0101 that computes the graph.</description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>ai</category><category>web3</category><category>smart-contracts</category></item><item><title>Optimistic ML Oracles: Verifiable Inference Without the Proof Overhead</title><link>https://blokz.dev/articles/optimistic-ml-oracles/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://blokz.dev/articles/optimistic-ml-oracles/</guid><description>Zero-knowledge proofs aren&apos;t the only path to trustworthy on-chain AI. Optimistic schemes trade latency for a 1000x cost reduction — here&apos;s how dispute games over inference actually work.</description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>blockchain</category><category>machine-learning</category><category>infrastructure</category></item><item><title>Agentic Smart-Contract Auditing: What LLM Swarms Catch (and Miss)</title><link>https://blokz.dev/articles/agentic-smart-contract-auditing/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://blokz.dev/articles/agentic-smart-contract-auditing/</guid><description>We ran multi-agent LLM pipelines against historical exploit corpora and live audit engagements. The results reshape where AI fits in a security review — and where it absolutely doesn&apos;t.</description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>agents</category><category>llm</category><category>smart-contracts</category><category>security</category></item><item><title>zkML in 2026: The State of Verifiable Inference</title><link>https://blokz.dev/articles/zkml-verifiable-inference-landscape/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://blokz.dev/articles/zkml-verifiable-inference-landscape/</guid><description>Zero-knowledge proofs promised to make machine learning trustless. A field survey of where zkML actually stands — proving systems, quantization tradeoffs, and what&apos;s deployable today.</description><pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>zero-knowledge</category><category>machine-learning</category><category>cryptography</category></item></channel></rss>