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Oracles   -   Feb 28, 2026 Reputation Is Not Static. In 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
Coins and tokens   -   Nov 25, 2025 The Crypto Seesaw: One Move, Everyone Falls
The Crypto Seesaw: One Move, Everyone Falls

Triggered by a routine macro shock, crypto once again unraveled faster than any other market. Not because of sentiment alone, but because CEX risk engines, DEX liquidation incentives, and always-on leverage turn small moves into cascading stress.

Alex Harutunian
Lending and Borrowing   -   Oct 03, 2025 DeFi’s Role in Future Banking: Root System or Branch Office?
DeFi’s Role in Future Banking: Root System or Branch Office

DeFi is moving from standalone apps into the backend of exchanges, with Coinbase and Crypto.com leading by embedding Morpho’s lending vaults. This “embedded DeFi” model raises a key question: are exchanges becoming banks, or just UIs? The answer will define DeFi’s role in future banking.

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

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
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Exchanges   -   Mar 18, 2024 Nigeria Pushes Binance to Provide Transactions of All Nigerian Users
Nigeria Pushes Binance

The exchange has ceased activities in the country, but that hasn't stopped the government, which has detained two Binance executives for over three weeks already.

Sasha Markevich
Newsletters   -   Mar 17, 2024 Sunday Review 17/03/2024
Observers Sunday Review 17/03/2024

This Sunday, Ireland and the world celebrate Saint Patrick’s Day. Dressed in green and wearing three-leaved shamrock plant accessories, thousands join parades celebrating the day Saint Patrick arrived in Ireland. The festivity has long transcended its religious origins and is today much more a time to celebrate, drink good

Eva Senzaj Pauram
Mar 17, 2024 Whose Minds Is Bitcoin Changing This Cycle And Why?
Whose Minds Is Bitcoin Changing This Cycle And Why?

While the crypto markets went quietly into the correction, we reflect on the major flip-flops on crypto brought by this cycle. Donald Trump, Larry Flink, and Peter Schiff are among the public figures and billionaire investors who have recently changed their minds about Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies.

Eva Senzaj Pauram
Banking CBDC Roundup   -   Mar 16, 2024 Banking and CBDC Weekend Roundup 16/03/2024
Banking and CBDC Weekend Roundup 16/03/2024

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. A senior Indian regulator has admitted that the traditional finance sector needs to compete

Alex Harutunian
Exchanges   -   Mar 16, 2024 Hong Kong Regulator Adds Bybit to Alert List and Issues User Warning
Bybit Hong Kong SFC

The Securities and Futures Commission added 11 products offered by the exchange to its suspicious investment products list and accused Bybit of conducting regulated activity without a license.

Sasha Markevich
Meme-coins   -   Mar 15, 2024 Avalanche Foundation Announces its First Meme-Coin Investments
Avalanche Foundation Announces First Investments in Memecoins KIMBO, COQ, GEC, TECH, and NOCHILL

Among the chosen tokens are KIMBO, COQ, GEC, TECH, and NOCHILL. The strategy reflects a broader effort to attract more users and traders to Avalanche.

Alexander Mardar
Bitcoin   -   Mar 15, 2024 Craig S Wright is Not Satoshi Nakamoto, He’s a Very Naughty Boy!
Craig S Wright is Not Satoshi Nakamoto

It’s official… Based on the “overwhelming” nature of the evidence, Justice James Mellor has released his early findings in the COPA vs Faketoshi case. TLDR; Craig S Wright is not the creator of Bitcoin and did not author the Bitcoin whitepaper.

Jack Martin
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