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Tokenization   -   Oct 09, 2026 Tokenization for Everything: Where Did We Actually Get?
Tokenization for Everything: Where Did We Actually Get?

Tokenization was supposed to disrupt global capital markets, but it ended in an unexpected compromise: permissionless rails carrying permissioned finance. A deep dive into SEC equity rules, European wholesale settlement, and why crypto’s plumbing is being absorbed to reinforce legacy finance.

Alex Harutunian
Oracles   -   Feb 28, 2026 Reputation Is Not Static. It Can Be Shorted On Ethos
Ethos reputations

Ethos turns credibility into an on-chain market. By blending XP-based participation, capital-backed vouching, and invite-bonded trust graphs, it attempts to price reputation itself. One year in, the experiment reveals both the promise—and the fragility—of financializing trust in crypto

Alex Harutunian
Blockchain   -   Feb 03, 2026 What Vitalik Buterin Wants To Change In Ethereum
Vitalik Buterin Ethereum improvement simplicity

Vitalik Buterin’s recent posts reflect a shift from idealistic decentralization toward pragmatic system design. Rather than rejecting Ethereum’s core principles, he questions where complexity, governance, and the current development path fail under real-world constraints.

Alex Harutunian
L1   -   Jan 14, 2026 Hyperliquid’s Vertical Evolution
Hyperliquid's vertically integrated ambition

Hyperliquid is evolving from a perp DEX into a vertically integrated financial stack. By launching its own L1, native stablecoin, and spot markets, it prioritizes market fit over ideology. Started on Arbitrum, its roadmap reveals a larger ambition: to become the global base layer for all trading.

Alex Harutunian
Layer1   -   Oct 16, 2025 Conflux: Blockchain Development Behind the Wall — and Beyond
Conflux: China’s State-Backed Bridge to the Blockchain World

While crypto remains banned, China’s state-backed blockchain ecosystem — led by Conflux — is expanding across Asia and into global finance. Conflux Network bridges China’s academic research, state strategy, and open blockchain innovation.

Alex Harutunian
Tokenization for Everything: Where Did We Actually Get?
Tokenization   -   Oct 09, 2026 Tokenization for Everything: Where Did We Actually Get?

Tokenization was supposed to disrupt global capital markets, but it ended in an unexpected compromise: permissionless rails carrying permissioned finance. A deep dive into SEC equity rules, European wholesale settlement, and why crypto’s plumbing is being absorbed to reinforce legacy finance.

Alex Harutunian
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Filecoin   -   Apr 09, 2024 STFIL Protocol in Crisis After Team Detention by Chinese Police
STFIL Filecoin china police

The sudden team detention and subsequent token movement provoked rug-pull fears among investors in Filecoin's staking project.

Alexander Mardar
Exchanges   -   Apr 09, 2024 Nigerian Court Orders Transfer Of Binance Executive To Jail
Nigerian Court Orders Transfer Of Binance Executive To Jail

Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered the detention of Tigran Gambaryan until his bail hearing on April 18. The executive of Binance has pleaded not guilty to money laundering charges in a Nigerian court.

Sasha Markevich
L1   -   Apr 08, 2024 Under the Hood of Solana. Is the 'Number One App Chain' Broken?
Solana broke

Failed transactions on Solana are rising as the blockchain’s stack struggles to accommodate mounting network activity.

Eva Senzaj Pauram
Newsletters   -   Apr 07, 2024 Sunday Review 07/04/2024
Sunday Review 07/04/2024 Observers.com

Mother Earth let her power come to the fore this week. On Wednesday, an earthquake of magnitude 7.4 hit Taiwan and neighboring countries. Tilting mountain rocks and shaking the foundations of several buildings in the county of Hualien, the incident was followed by over 50 aftershocks. It prompted tsunami

Eva Senzaj Pauram
Uniswap   -   Apr 07, 2024 Uniswap Reaches $2T in Protocol Volume and Launches Blast Integration
Uniswap Reaches $2T in Protocol Volume and Launches Blast Integration

The decentralized exchange rockets past $2 trillion in total trading volume, doubling it in just two years, a few days after integrating Blast.

Mathilde Adam
Exchanges   -   Apr 06, 2024 Binance Dumps Support For Ordinals: End Times For Bitcoin NFTs or Stiff Competition?
Binance Dumps Support For Ordinals: End Times For Bitcoin NFTs or Stiff Competition?

Binance was once all in BRC-20 tokens. Now, it will cease the support for the Ordinals protocol NFTs. Users have until March 18 to move their assets.

Eva Senzaj Pauram
Banking CBDC Roundup   -   Apr 06, 2024 Banking and CBDC Weekend Roundup: 06/04/2024
Banking and CBDC Weekend Roundup: 06/04/2024 Observers

A new currency for Zimbabwe plus the rest of the week's banking and CBDC news from Observers.

Alex Harutunian
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