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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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Centralized stablecoins   -   Feb 22, 2024 Circle Discontinues USDC Support on the TRON Blockchain: But Why?
USDC Tron circle Justin Sun

Circle has announced that it will discontinue support of its stablecoin on the Tron blockchain to ensure that USDC remains trusted and transparent. But is there something more afoot?

Sasha Markevich
CBDC   -   Feb 21, 2024 ECB Tries to Combat Commercial Bank Fears over Lost Deposits
ECB Combats Banks’ Fears and Concerns

Amid the digital euro's preparation phase, the ECB is trying to get support from future users and commercial structures by publishing encouraging materials.

Sasha Markevich
Airdrop   -   Feb 20, 2024 A Tale of Two Airdrops: Pixels Success Greets Starknet Disappointment
A Tale of Two Airdrops: Pixels Success Greets Starknet Disappointment

Following recent airdrops, Pixels has enjoyed a surge in market activity and user engagement, while Starknet faces community dissatisfaction and a drop in active users.

Alexander Mardar
Exchanges   -   Feb 20, 2024 U.S. Prosecutors Recommend Court to Accept Binance Plea Deal
U.S. Prosecutors Recommend Court to Accept Binance Plea Deal

The prosecutors claimed that the huge penalty was appropriate given the severity and intentional nature of the crime.

Sasha Markevich
Newsletters   -   Feb 18, 2024 Sunday Review 18/02/2024
Sunday Review 18/02/2024

The whole world is clearly going to hell in a handbasket, and at this stage there is precious little that you or we can do to stop it. However, we don't like to dwell on negative news in the Sunday Review, so after some deep digging, we discovered

Jack Martin
AI   -   Feb 18, 2024 Sam Altman's Worldcoin Gains After OpenAI's Sora Launch
World ID robots AI Orbs OpenAI SORA

Worldcoin's digital 'humanity passport' is trending again, after OpenAI Sora threatens to blur the line between virtual and real in video content.

Sasha Markevich
Banking CBDC Roundup   -   Feb 17, 2024 Banking and CBDC Weekend Roundup 17/02/2024
Banking and CBDC Weekend Roundup 17/02/2024

For all the key details of new blockchain projects in the banking world, real-world asset (RWA) tokenization, and central bank digital currency (CBDC) updates, the Observers 'Banking and CBDC Roundup' has you covered. This week, the governor of the Philippines Central Bank (BSP), Eli M. Remolona Jr. made

Alex Harutunian
Exchanges   -   Feb 17, 2024 Backpack Skyrockets After Launching Reward Scheme… says Co-Founder
Backpack Skyrockets After Launching Reward Scheme… says Co-Founder

The Backpack exchange has reportedly reached over $600 million in daily trading volume within the first few days of its “preseason” launch. However, some have concerns that the majority of these trades appear to come from a single user.

Sasha Markevich
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