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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
DEX   -   Sep 18, 2025 Curve’s Egorov Proposes a New Solution to DeFi's Pain
Michael Egorov proposes Yield Basis pool in Curve protocol

Curve Finance is launching Yield Basis with a $60M crvUSD credit line. The product aims to eliminate impermanent loss for liquidity providers, and at the same time transform CRV from a governance token into an income-generating asset with revenues shared back to holders

Alex Harutunian
Tokenization   -   Sep 09, 2025 Nasdaq Pushes for Blockchain-Based Equities
nasdaq meets blockchain

Nasdaq has filed with the U.S. SEC to bring tokenized securities onto its main market, aiming to trade blockchain-based and traditional shares side by side. If approved, the move could make Nasdaq the first U.S. exchange to integrate tokenized equities under existing protections

Alex Harutunian
Illustration of a crowd observing or pointing toward a shared goal, symbolizing the collective discovery of truth through prediction markets
Oracles   -   Oct 25, 2025 Crowd-Sourced Truth from 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
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Scam   -   Jan 23, 2024 God Made Colorado Pastor Scam his Flock
God Made Colorado Pastor Scam his Flock

Online pastor Eli Regalado fleeced his flock to the tune of $3 million based on the promise (from God) of a 10x return. Naturally, the money is now gone, and the pastor faces fraud charges.

Sasha Markevich
Web3   -   Jan 23, 2024 Bitget Study Finds Female-Led Web3 Startups an Underfunded Minority
Bitget Study Finds Female-Led Web3 Startups an Underfunded Minority

Female-led blockchain startups are a minority in Web3 and get less funding than their male-run equivalents.

Eva Senzaj Pauram
Metamask   -   Jan 23, 2024 MetaMask Launches Consensys-Powered Ethereum Validator Staking Service
MetaMask Launches Consensys-Powered Ethereum Validator Staking Service

The new service, created with Consensys Staking, streamlines Ethereum validator node operation but charges a 10% reward fee.

Mathilde Adam
Ethereum   -   Jan 23, 2024 Dencun Upgrade Set to Boost Ethereum with Blob-Carrying Transactions
Ethereum Blobs Dencun EIP 4844 upgrad

The upgrade promises a significant reduction in gas fees and enhanced transaction speed for L2 networks.

Alexander Mardar
Blockchain   -   Jan 23, 2024 Binance Keeps Up the Heat on BNB Chain by Burning Tokens
Binance BNB token Burn

Binance has reported another major token burn to kick off 2024. The BNB token has removed over 50% of its 100 million token target so far.

Alex Harutunian
Newsletters   -   Jan 21, 2024 Sunday Review 21/01/2024
Sunday Review 21/01/2024

To the casual Observer, a large cohort of the crypto community might seem borderline obsessed with just one question, "Wen moon?" Well this week was 'Wen', at least for the Japanese space agency, which managed to gently land its SLIM lunar lander on the surface of

Jack Martin
Metrics and Signals   -   Jan 21, 2024 Chainalysis Crypto Crime Report: Illicit Activity Down… Possibly?
Chainalysis Crypto Crime Report: Illicit Activity Down… Possibly?

Advance excerpts from the annual Crypto Crime report by Chainalysis suggest that illicit activity fell significantly in 2023, with certain caveats.

Sasha Markevich
Banking CBDC Roundup   -   Jan 20, 2024 Banking and CBDC Weekend Roundup 20/01/2024
Banking and CBDC Weekend Observers

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. Starting off with the tokenization of real-world assets, global credit ratings agency Moody's

Jack Martin
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