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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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Exchanges   -   Dec 30, 2023 First Mt. Gox Repayments Arrive Via PayPal… Twice for Some Users
First Mt. Gox Repayments Arrive Via PayPal… Twice for Some Users

Reportedly, some creditors have received yen payments through PayPal, marking the first funds received after almost 10 years of waiting. However, even this has been tarnished by accidental duplicate payments to some users.

Sasha Markevich
Adoption   -   Dec 26, 2023 Bitcoin and Crypto Valid Payment Options in Argentina But at What Cost
Bitcoin and Crypto Valid Payment Options in Argentina But at What Cost

Bitcoin has been caught up in the wrong place at the wrong time. While trying to solve an economic crisis, the new Argentinian president has sown the conditions for social chaos.

Eva Senzaj Pauram
Newsletters   -   Dec 24, 2023 Sunday Review 24/12/2023
Observers Sunday Review

So, this Sunday Review comes to you on Christmas Eve, and while not everybody in the world celebrates the holiday, it can be hard to avoid the festivities completely. But what has been leaving presents under the tree, and what will be taken straight back to the shops on Boxing

Jack Martin
Ethereum   -   Dec 24, 2023 StarkWare Partnership Gives Avail Traction in Data Availability Sector
StarkWare Partnership Gives Avail Traction in Data Availability Sector

Their collaboration is set to address the critical challenge of data availability, a key factor in advancing Starknet’s scalability.

Alexander Mardar
Web3   -   Dec 24, 2023 Can Web3 Change The Music Industry? Base And Sound Think So
Can Web3 Change The Music Industry? Base And Sound Think So

A new partnership between Coinbase's Layer2 blockchain Base and Web3 music platform Sound.xyz aims to build a different music industry on-chain.

Eva Senzaj Pauram
Banking CBDC Roundup   -   Dec 23, 2023 Banking and CBDC Weekend Roundup 23/12/2023
Banking and CBDC Roundup 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. It has been a reasonably quiet week in the banking and CBDC sector, with

Jack Martin
Regulation   -   Dec 23, 2023 France Grants Crypto Service Provider Licences to Coinbase and Circle
France Grants Crypto Service Provider Licences to Coinbase and Circle

The two U.S. crypto giants are part of a wave of companies embracing the more crypto-friendly attitude of European authorities.

Sasha Markevich
Bankruptcy   -   Dec 23, 2023 $1B of Three Arrows Capital Founders Assets Subject to Global Freeze
$1B of Three Arrows Capital Founders Assets Subject to Global Freeze

A court in the British Virgin Islands has reportedly issued a global freezing order of assets belonging to Su Zhu and Kyle Davies.

Sasha Markevich
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