







This week on What’s Driving Token Prices, Katie Talati examines Zcash governance issues, Polygon’s payments shift, and planned changes at Pump.fun.
Ways to think about token pricing — Benedict Evans
AI is in a supply crunch today, but what happens when we come out of it? How and where will supply, demand, price, capacity and capex get back into equilibrium? Today, model labs can name their price, but why won’t they end up as low-margin commodity infrastructure?


What will happen to cryptocurrency in the 2020s
Today, let’s look ahead to the future and what I think will happen in the 2020s. Of course, no one can predict the future with much accuracy, but one way to predict it more accurately

Crypto, Blockchain and FinTech Industry Insights Blog
Visit Ripple’s Insights blog for the latest articles, news, industry trends, and thought leadership across blockchain, crypto, payments and more.

Cryptoeconomics: Paving the Future of Blockchain Technology | HackerNoon
Page through the articles on <a href="https://hackernoon.com/tagged/blockchain" target="_blank">blockchain</a> today and you will see healthy discussions over its applications and endless debates over the future price action of someone’s favorite cryptocurrency. Yet rarely among all these topics is any mention of the most fascinating notion at the heart of the movement — blockchain as a novel means<strong> to incentivize desired human behavior</strong>.

Who Funds the Future?
The venture capitalist Marc Andreessen plans “what will happen in the next ten, twenty, thirty years,” as if he were glancing at his Google calendar.

Data: Track state and national gas prices
Gas prices across the country, after declining much of April, are spiking again.
Gasoline - Price - Chart - Historical Data - News
Gasoline rose to 3.72 USD/Gal on May 4, 2026, up 3.50% from the previous day. Over the past month, Gasoline's price has risen 12.48%, and is up 83.65% compared to the same time last year, according to trading on a contract for difference (CFD) that tracks the benchmark market for this commodity. Gasoline - values, historical data, forecasts and news - updated on May of 2026.

2025.21: The Upheaval Coming for the Internet Economy
The best Stratechery content from the week of May 19, 2025, including AI and the future of the web, slam dunks and moonshots at Google, and OpenAI entering the hardware business.

Some ideas for what comes next, May 2026
Gemini Flash 3.5, Mythos, open-closed balance, America's open-source surge, emerging power struggles and more.

My 2026 Open Social Web Predictions - Tim Chambers
Predictions for 2026 include growth forecasts for various social media platforms, advancements in federated technologies, and anticipated shifts in how …

2026 French fuel protests
On 15 September 2026, protests driven by rising fuel prices erupted in France. On 17 October, the fuel protesters joined student protesters in nationwide demonstrations, which descended into the 17 October riots in Paris and other cities.
Bitcoin Open Roadmap
Public roadmap for bitcoin products and initiatives at Block. See what we’re building, what’s next, and how we’re advancing Bitcoin at Block.

GPT-5.5 may burn fewer tokens, but it always burns more cash
It’s not just gas prices skyrocketing. Frontier-model pricing keeps climbing too
