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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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Adoption   -   Apr 03, 2024 Google Extends Its Web3 Search Reach, Adds More Blockchains and Ethereum Domain Names
Google Extends Its Web3 Search Reach, Adds More Blockchains and Ethereum Domain Names

Google’s search engine added Ethereum ENS support, indexes the balance and the last update time of the wallet addresses on Bitcoin and six other blockchains.

Eva Senzaj Pauram
Trading   -   Apr 02, 2024 Buterin 2.0 Wants Degen Communism And Honourable Memecoins
Buterin 2.0 Wants Degen Communism And Honourable Memecoins

Since announcing his coming-of-age, the co-founder of Ethereum has come up with some chaotic ideas for the crypto community to try to make sense of.

Eva Senzaj Pauram
Trading   -   Apr 02, 2024 Degen Chain Emerges as New Hub for Meme Coin Trading
Degen Chain Emerges as New Hub for Meme Coin Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong

Degen Chain, a Layer 3 network built for memecoin trading, has seen over 10.5 million transactions and 500,000 new wallets in the last several days. Its native token, DEGEN, has surged 13x in the last two weeks, and currently boasts a market cap of over $500 million.

Alexander Mardar
Trading   -   Apr 02, 2024 Notcoin Moves to Next Stage (or Not?)
notcoin

The meme token by the TON project exited the mining stage. The listing is expected within this month.

Sasha Markevich
Tokenization   -   Apr 01, 2024 Ondo Finance Spearheads Real World Asset Tokenization Wave
Ondo Finance BUIDL Blackrock

With their strategy to blend traditional finance with blockchain, Ondo is paving the way for wider asset accessibility and instant transactions, creating a new era in global investment.

Alexander Mardar
Ethena   -   Apr 01, 2024 Ethena Labs Airdrops Its Governance Token
Ethena ENA airdrop

Ethena Labs announces its ENA Governance token airdrop, distributing 750 million tokens, or 5% of its total supply, aiming for broader governance engagement. The project’s synthetic dollar stablecoin, USDe, offers a 35% APY, backed by notable investors and exchanges.

Alexander Mardar
Newsletters   -   Mar 31, 2024 Sunday Review 31/03/2024
Sunday Review 31/03/2024 Observers

The world might be seeing the light at the end of the tunnel for the five-month-long conflict between Israel and Hamas. This week, the U.N. Security Council voted on a resolution calling for the immediate cease-fire in the Gaza Strip, with 14 council members voting in

Eva Senzaj Pauram
Banking CBDC Roundup   -   Mar 30, 2024 Banking and CBDC Weekend Roundup: 30/03/2024
Banking and CBDC Weekend Roundup: 30/03/2024

For all the key details of new blockchain projects in the banking world, real-world asset (RWA) tokenization, stablecoins, and central bank digital currency (CBDC) updates, the Observers 'Banking and CBDC Roundup' has you covered. This week HSBC pushed the adoption of tokenized RWA forward by opening its

Alex Harutunian
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