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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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Stablecoins   -   Mar 08, 2024 A Dollar on Blockchain Rails: Tether's 100B Market Cap In Perspective
Tether dollar on chain rails USDT

Tether's USDT stablecoin is the largest bridge between the crypto industry and the traditional financial system. The project has just passed another financial milestone.

Alex Harutunian
NFT   -   Mar 07, 2024 NFT Mania is Back, With Ordinals and Solana Taking Ethereum’s Lead
Ordinal collections to be launched, NodeMonkes 1 million Ordinal "Alien Hoodie" (#2769)

NFT sales are again breaking price records, but with Ordinals around, Ethereum is no longer the blockchain of choice for either traders, collectors, or collections.

Eva Senzaj Pauram
Exchanges   -   Mar 06, 2024 Coinbase Shares Still Pumping Despite Exchange Crashes from BTC Surge
Coinbase overloaded

Despite recent technical issues, the price of Coinbase shares continues to grow. Meanwhile, a Judge has given a default judgment in support of the SEC in the ongoing insider trading case.

Sasha Markevich
RWA   -   Mar 05, 2024 Issuer of Collapsed Stablecoin Returns with L2 for Tokenized RWAs
Tangible DAO, a U.K.-based issuer of USD-pegged stablecoins (USDR)

Tangible DAO, the issuer of the depegged USDR stablecoin backed by real estate, has announced the re.al ecosystem, which is planned to go live in two weeks.

Sasha Markevich
Meme-coins   -   Mar 05, 2024 Meme-coins Outperform BTC and ETH Trading Volumes in Frenzied Market
Meme-coins Outperform BTC and ETH Trading Volumes in Frenzied Market

Frogs, cats, dogs and even Harry Potter-inspired tokens are reaching all-time highs in price, market cap and trading volume.

Eva Senzaj Pauram
Bitcoin   -   Mar 04, 2024 Bitcoin Continues to Hit Highs Amid Strong ETF Demand: $200k Incoming?
Bitcoin Continues to Hit Highs Amid Strong ETF Demand: $200k Incoming?

With BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust leading the charge, Bitcoin’s market trajectory is drawing parallels with gold’s post-ETF launch boom, hinting at potentially even greater growth ahead.

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

Finance ministers from the G20 nations met in Brazil this week to discuss (among other things) plans for a global minimum tax on the world's 2,756 known billionaires, collectively believed to be worth around $13 trillion. Currently, through a combination of avoidance schemes and 'tax-friendly&

Jack Martin
Banking CBDC Roundup   -   Mar 02, 2024 Banking and CBDC Weekend Roundup 02/03/2024
Banking and CBDC Weekend Roundup 02/03/2024

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. On February 16, the U.S. Federal Reserve (Fed) published a note discussing

Alex Harutunian
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