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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
Oracles   -   Oct 25, 2025 Crowd-Sourced Truth from Prediction Markets
Illustration of a crowd observing or pointing toward a shared goal, symbolizing the collective discovery of truth through prediction markets

From Polymarket’s stripped-down design to Kalshi’s regulatory breakthrough, prediction markets are turning collective opinion into a financial asset class — and a new battleground over who defines truth

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
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
Gaming   -   Sep 13, 2025 The Promise and Reality of Blockchain Games
blockchain gamers

After years of development, blockchain games still capture only a sliver of the gaming industry. The promise of true asset ownership, stable economies, and transferability remains unmet. Recent trends suggest blockchain was more hype feature than genuine necessity

Alex Harutunian
The Crypto Seesaw: One Move, Everyone Falls
Coins and tokens   -   Nov 25, 2025 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
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Banking CBDC Roundup   -   Feb 10, 2024 Banking and CBDC Weekend Roundup 10/02/2024
Banking and CBDC Weekend Roundup 10/02/2024

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. Fresh from launching a crypto custody platform in November, Germany's DZ Bank now

Jack Martin
NFT   -   Feb 09, 2024 Pandora's Box Opens Unleashing ERC-404 Token Frenzy
Pandora's Box Opens Unleashing ERC-404 Token Frenzy

The experimental ERC-404 standard combines fungible and NFT tokens and has sparked significant interest. Among its first applications, the Pandora project has rapidly achieved a $250 million market cap, underscoring the potential of this new standard.

Alexander Mardar
Regulation   -   Feb 09, 2024 Dealer or No Dealer? Definition Expansion Could Harm Both TradFi and DeFi
Dealer or No Dealer? Definition Expansion Could Harm Both TradFi and DeFi

The SEC's update of the 'dealer rule' puts an unknown number of companies, including from the DeFi sector, under the regulator’s control.

Sasha Markevich
DoKwon   -   Feb 09, 2024 Do Kwon Extradition Process Hits Restart After Significant Violations
Do Kwon Extradition Process Hits Restart After Significant Violations

The former CEO of Terraform Labs (Luna/UST stablecoin project) will have another chance to fight extradition proceedings after the Montenegrin justice system admits to having bungled his legal process.

Eva Senzaj Pauram
Bitcoin   -   Feb 08, 2024 U.K. Satoshi Trial: Craig Wright Claims he was Framed over Forged Docs
U.K. Satoshi Trial: Craig Wright Claims he was Framed over Forged Docs

Craig ‘Faketoshi’ Wright has told London’s High Court that numerous computer documents, which even his own expert witness admits are fake, were created by other people in an attempt to portray him as a liar.

Jack Martin
Solana   -   Feb 08, 2024 Solana Outage: A Disappointing Failure Or Part Of The Process?
Solana Outage: A Disappointing Failure Or Part Of The Process?

The latest outage of the Solana blockchain has led to questions regarding its technical viability to become an epicentre of the Web3 ecosystem.

Eva Senzaj Pauram
Friend.tech   -   Feb 08, 2024 Buterin Bashes DeSoc but Predicts Farcaster and Lens Will Survive
Buterin Bashes DeSoc but Predicts Farcaster and Lens Will Survive

Friend.tech's rapid decline underscores the volatility of DeSoc projects. Meanwhile, Farcaster and Lens Protocol emerge as robust alternatives, demonstrating significant user engagement and innovative features to enhance the decentralized social experience.

Mathilde Adam
Web3   -   Feb 07, 2024 GoDaddy Partners Ethereum Name Service for Easier DNS/ENS Integration
GoDaddy Partners Ethereum Name Service for Easier DNS/ENS Integration

The domain registration provider has partnered with the blockchain naming standard, allowing users to connect DNS domains to Web3-based ENS domains more easily.

Sasha Markevich
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