Raj Malhotra
Tech & Crypto Analyst
10 years as systems architect at Stripe and Coinbase
About
Raj Malhotra spent ten years as a systems architect at Stripe and Coinbase before becoming a full-time analyst. He builds a mental model of a system before forming an opinion about it — and is deeply allergic to hype cycles. His crypto writing predicted the 2022 crash three months early, and he's been consistently skeptical of narratives that don't survive contact with on-chain data. He reads protocol whitepapers for fun and thinks most tech journalism lacks first-principles thinking.
Areas of expertise
- cryptocurrency analysis
- Bitcoin & Ethereum
- AI tool evaluation
- SaaS comparison
- developer productivity
- protocol mechanics
- tech stack decisions
Trend explainers by Raj Malhotra (30)
- AI's Circular Financing Problem: Is $800 Billion Just Money Going in a Loop?2026-07-05T00:00:00.000Z · tech
- The Entry-Level Job Is Getting Automated First: What the 2026 Hiring Data Actually Shows2026-07-04T15:00:00Z · tech
- AI Video Just Crossed Into Real Production — What It Means for Marketing Budgets and Jobs (July 2026)2026-07-03T14:30:00Z · tech
- The Best AI Video Generators in 2026, Compared: Veo 3.1, Sora 2, Runway, and Kling (July 2026)2026-07-03T14:00:00Z · tech
- The 'Agent-Washing' Reckoning: Why Enterprise AI's ROI Problem Is Finally Catching Up to the Hype (July 2026)2026-07-02T13:00:00Z · tech
- The AI Power Wall: Why $725 Billion in Capex Can't Buy Enough Electricity (July 2026)2026-07-01T13:00:00Z · tech
- The Open-Weight Squeeze: How 'Good Enough' Open Models Are Capping What Closed AI Vendors Can Charge (June 2026)2026-06-30T13:00:00Z · tech
- Enterprise AI-Agent Governance, Explained: The Shift From 'Can We Deploy?' to 'Can We Audit and Control?' (June 2026)2026-06-29T13:00:00Z · tech
- AI's 2026 Funding Supercycle and the Frontier-Model Parity Moment, Explained (June 2026)2026-06-28T13:00:00Z · tech
- Trump Just Signed an AI Executive Order Giving the Government Early Access to Frontier Models: What It Means2026-06-27T13:00:00Z · business
- Google Delayed Gemini 3.5 Pro to July 2026: What Happened, Explained2026-06-26T14:00:00Z · tech
- Anthropic Launched Claude Fable 5 — Then the US Government Pulled It Days Later: What Happened, Explained2026-06-25T14:00:00Z · technology
- Microsoft Just Launched 7 Homegrown MAI Models at Build 2026: What MAI-Thinking-1 Means for Its OpenAI Breakup2026-06-24T13:00:00Z · tech
- ChatGPT Just Fell Below 50% Market Share for the First Time: How Gemini and Claude Are Closing the Gap2026-06-23T14:00:00Z · tech
- Apple Just Let You Replace ChatGPT With Claude or Gemini: iOS 27's Third-Party AI Picker Explained2026-06-22T13:00:00Z · tech
- Anthropic vs. OpenAI: The First-Ever AI IPO Race Is On — Two Frontier Labs File to Go Public Within a Week2026-06-12T13:00:00Z · tech
- SpaceX's $1.77 Trillion IPO: Inside the Largest Stock Debut in History2026-06-09T13:00:00Z · finance
- Nvidia Just Put Its Chip Inside a Windows Laptop for the First Time — Meet RTX Spark and the Surface Laptop Ultra2026-06-01T13:00:00Z · tech
- Which AI Video Generator Is Actually Going Viral on TikTok in May 2026?2026-05-03T10:00:00.000Z · tech
- Stablecoin GENIUS Act Passes Senate: What Actually Changed2026-05-02T10:30:00.000Z · finance
- Apple WWDC 2026 Leaks: On-Device AI Finally Catches Up2026-05-02T10:00:00.000Z · tech
- BNPL Doom Loop 2026: How Klarna Affirm Stacking Broke2026-05-01T10:15:00.000Z · finance
- GPT-5.5 May 2026 Leak: What The Rumors Actually Say2026-05-01T10:00:00.000Z · tech
- Stable Video 3 Use Cases For Independent Creators2026-04-30T11:15:00.000Z · tech
- Stability AI's 2026 Comeback: How A Written-Off Company Shipped Stable Video 32026-04-30T11:10:00.000Z · tech
- Stable Video 3 Architecture in Plain English2026-04-30T11:05:00.000Z · tech
- Stable Video 3 vs Sora 2 vs Runway Gen-4: April 2026 Comparison2026-04-30T11:00:00.000Z · tech
- Why Claude Sonnet Became Every Developer’s Default Model — Explained2026-04-04 · tech
- The Reasoning Model Wars: OpenAI o3 vs Gemini vs Claude — What Actually Matters2026-04-04 · tech
- AI Tools Replacing Traditional SaaS in 2026: What's Actually Worth Switching2026-03-30 · tech