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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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Regulation   -   Jan 07, 2024 South Korea Plans to Block Credit Card Payments to Overseas Exchanges
South Korea Plans to Block Credit Card Payments to Overseas Exchanges

The local regulator has proposed a ban on using credit cards to buy crypto from foreign exchanges due to concerns about illegal outflow of funds and money laundering.

Sasha Markevich
SEC   -   Jan 07, 2024 SEC Wants to Use Terraform Labs Ruling in Binance and Coinbase Cases
SEC Wants to Use Terraform Labs Ruling in Binance and Coinbase Cases

A recent ruling in the SEC vs Terraform Labs case could be used as a precedent to argue that the two exchanges traded unregistered securities.

Sasha Markevich
Banking CBDC Roundup   -   Jan 06, 2024 Banking and CBDC Weekend Roundup 06/01/2024
Banking and CBDC Weekend Roundup 06/01/2024

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. It's fair to say that in the two weeks since our last Banking

Jack Martin
Bitcoin   -   Jan 04, 2024 Ordinals Jubilee Upgrade Creates Friction Within BRC-20 Community
Domo BRC-20 vs unisat Jubilee upgrade

BRC-20 creator Domo has rallied the community to boycott Unisat following the non-custodial wallet's decision to follow the Ordinals Jubilee upgrade.

Eva Senzaj Pauram
Regulation   -   Jan 04, 2024 OKX to Test Awareness of U.K. Users under Financial Promotions Regime
OKX to Test Awareness of U.K. Users under Financial Promotions Regime FCA

OKX will provide questionnaires to new and existing retail users to confirm their understanding of crypto investment risks under FCA regulations.

Sasha Markevich
Ethereum   -   Jan 03, 2024 Vitalik Buterin Wants Ethereum PoS to Become ‘Lighter and Simpler’
Vitalik Buterin Wants Ethereum PoS to Become ‘Lighter and Simpler’

Vitalik Buterin has recently suggested a PoS simplification that involves reducing the number of validator signatures required per block, which would, in turn, ease the network load.

Sasha Markevich
Observers   -   Dec 31, 2023 Observers Review of 2023
Observers Annual Review

What a year it has been. The crypto industry entered 2023 battered and bruised, still dealing with the fallout of the FTX collapse, although Sam Bankman-Fried had managed to buy his way out of prison (temporarily, at least) with a $250 million bail bond. The FTX drama hit as the

Jack Martin
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