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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
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
DEX   -   Sep 09, 2025 Hyperliquid Joins Stablecoin Race, Books USDH Ticker
Hyperliquid Joins Stablecoin Race, Books USDH Ticker

Hyperliquid is preparing to launch its own stablecoin, USDH, through a validator-led governance vote. With USDC currently dominating its ecosystem, USDH would reduce reliance on external issuers and capture reserve yield. Paxos, Frax, Ethena, and an Agora–MoonPay coalition are competing to deploy it

Alex Harutunian
Crypto Funds and Institutional Trading   -   Sep 03, 2025 Ether Machine Turns Ethereum Into Wall Street Stock
Ether Machine Turns Ethereum Into Wall Street Stock

The Ether Machine is bringing Ethereum to Wall Street through a SPAC merger and $2.1B in committed assets. Backed by ConsenSys veterans, it mirrors MicroStrategy’s playbook with convertible financing and promotion, while adding staking and restaking strategies that ETFs and Bitcoin wrappers cannot

Alex Harutunian
Stablecoins   -   Aug 13, 2025 USDC’s Circle Showcases Post-IPO Strength, Building Its Own Blockchain and Payment Networks
USDC’s Circle Showcases Post-IPO Strength, Building Its Own Blockchain and Payment Networks

Circle’s first post-IPO results show USDC supply nearly doubled YoY to $61.3B, market share up to 26%, and revenue +53% to $658M. The $1.2B IPO boosted equity to $2.37B, funding new plays like the Circle Payments Network and Arc blockchain in a bid to challenge Tether’s dominance

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

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
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Newsletters   -   Mar 16, 2025 Sunday Review 16/03/2025
Sunday Review Observers

Happy Sunday, Observers! The wave of day traders and degens throwing in the towel continues, but on the institutional size, the game is just getting started. In the past seven days, MoonPay acquired Iron, MEXC Ventures invested $16 million in ENA and $20 million in USDe, MGX invested $2 billion

Eva Senzaj Pauram
Adoption Tools   -   Mar 14, 2025 Crypto Hardware Wallet Rivalry: Ledger Evaluates Trezor’s Security
Trezor Ledger

Hardware wallet provider Ledger evaluated it's competitor's Trezor Safe wallet family and reported on a potential risk in Trezor’s Safe 3 model.

Sasha Markevich
Regulation   -   Mar 12, 2025 Does the IMF Shield the U.S. Dollar in El Salvador?
Does the IMF Shield the U.S. Dollar in El Salvador?

The International Monetary Fund is pressuring El Salvador to scale back its Bitcoin adoption by leveraging loan funds. Despite the IMF agreement, El Salvador remains committed to expanding its BTC reserves, with President Bukele insisting, "It won’t stop now, and it won’t stop in the future."

Rebecca Denton
Exchanges   -   Mar 12, 2025 Abu Dhabi’s MGX Invests $2 Billion in Binance
Abu Dhabi’s MGX Invests $2 Billion in Binance

According to the press release, this is the most significant investment into a crypto company, the largest investment paid in crypto (stablecoin), and the first institutional investment in Binance.

Rebecca Denton
Newsletters   -   Mar 09, 2025 Sunday Review 09/03/2025
Sunday Review 09/03/2025

Happy Sunday, Observers! The summit that leads from “asset light” to “asset heavy” feels more like a roller coaster than ever. With President Trump at the helm, calling and firing what sometimes feels like rather random shots, markets are losing it. The White House’s announcement that it would establish

Eva Senzaj Pauram
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