Neha Narula
@neha
I work on scaling systems and platforms for the internet. Director of Digital Currency @medialab, BoD @blocks. PhD from @MIT_CSAIL, formerly @digg, @google.
I’ve been thinking about how AI agents will make payments A lot of people say agents need stablecoins. Wallets are easier to spin up than bank accounts; stablecoins are more programmable, composable, etc. At the same time, Stripe is powering agents on existing rails (like with…
This week, @PresidioBitcoin hosted the Bitcoin Quantum Summit (pbquantum.com). I was thrilled to be invited to attend, and wanted to write up a thread about what I learned this week. I’ll save my commentary for the end, and start with where we are, the challenges we…
Bitcoin treasury companies are all the rage this week. MSTR, Metaplanet, Twenty One, Nakamoto. I think they're toxic leverage and the worst thing which has ever happened to bitcoin & what bitcoin stands for. In the right conditions, here's the mechanism of how this blows up 1/n
In honor of bitcoin🍕 day reposting why we should #MakeBitcoinMoneyAgain (reclaiming hashtag from the Knots brigade)
"If what we have in 50 years is the New York Fed Bitcoin vault, but users can’t easily and safely self-custody—we failed." Post reflecting on 10 years of @MITDCI: nehanarula.org/2025/05/15/dec…
How much of the outstanding USDC supply is currently custodied by Coinbase, held in Coinbase wallets, or held on Base?
Less OP_RETURNs, more signal. Check out Neha's blog post about Ark!
There are a lot of posts on Ark, a Bitcoin scaling solution, but I couldn't understand them so I wrote my own. Includes: - Breakdown of the protocol - Comparisons to Lightning and rollups - How it benefits from CTV and CSFS (reduced interactivity)
"If what we have in 50 years is the New York Fed Bitcoin vault, but users can’t easily and safely self-custody—we failed." Post reflecting on 10 years of @MITDCI: nehanarula.org/2025/05/15/dec…