Published research notes, analysis, and briefs from the kcolbchain research collective (est. 2015).
- Protocol design & cryptoeconomics — consensus, mechanism design, governance
- Security & formal methods — smart contract security, audits, formal verification
- Zero-knowledge systems — proving systems, ZKVMs, circuit engineering
- DeFi & financial primitives — AMMs, lending, yield, tokenisation, MEV
- AI x Blockchain — verifiable inference, on-chain agents, decentralised compute
- Scalability & data availability — rollups, DA layers, parallel execution
- Payments & stablecoins — stablecoin design, regulation, payment infrastructure
- RWA tokenisation — treasuries, private credit, institutional adoption
| Brief | Date | Scope |
|---|---|---|
| Q2 2026 Research Brief | Apr 2026 | L2 scaling, payments, stablecoins, DeFi, MEV, RWAs |
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