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Oracles   -   Feb 28, 2026 Reputation Is Not Static. In 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
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
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
Ethos reputations
Oracles   -   Feb 28, 2026 Reputation Is Not Static. In Can Be Shorted On Ethos

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
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Regulation   -   Oct 21, 2023 New EU Tax Law Gets Tough On Crypto Funding of Terrorism
EU Tax polic

A new tax law in the European Union outlines a cross-border database for crypto-asset transactions that will make it easier for governments to crack down on criminal activity.

Eva Senzaj Pauram
Stablecoins   -   Oct 21, 2023 Lightning Labs Enables Stablecoin Creation on the Bitcoin Blockchain
Stablecoin lightning

The Bitcoin L2 developers have released the alpha version of the Taproot Asset protocol, which allows the building of stablecoins on top of the Bitcoin blockchain.

Alex Harutunian
CBDC   -   Oct 20, 2023 European Central Bank Moves to ‘Preparation Phase’ on Digital Euro
ECB President Christine Lagarde Digital Euro

Following a two-year investigation, the ECB is starting to lay the foundations for the potential issuance of its CBDC, although a final decision on whether to launch the digital euro has still not been made.

Jack Martin
Exchanges   -   Oct 20, 2023 Binance.US Goes Crypto-Only While UK Halts Onboarding of New Users
Binance.US UK USA regulation

Binance.US has updated its Terms of Use to remove support for USD deposits and withdrawals. Meanwhile the global exchange has stopped accepting new users in the U.K.

Sasha Markevich
Bitcoin ETF   -   Oct 19, 2023 Desire for Spot Bitcoin ETF Sees Price Soar on False Approval Report
Spot Bitcoin ETF Sees Price Soar on False Approval Report Cointelegraph

After Cointelegraph posted on X to say that the BlackRock spot bitcoin ETF had been approved by the SEC, BTC price jumped by 7% before falling back to its original level. BlackRock’s CEO said this demonstrated the “pent-up interest in crypto.”

Jack Martin
Adoption   -   Oct 18, 2023 Beg to Differ: Latin America Is a Region of Crypto Contrasts
LATAM blockchain adoption map Brazil Argentina

One region, 33 crypto cultures. In Latin America, each country has their own stance towards cryptocurrency, creating a patchwork of adoption levels, regulations, types of assets held and exchanges used.

Eva Senzaj Pauram
Blockchain   -   Oct 18, 2023 Is Slashing Really an Issue in Proof-of-Stake Blockchains?
Is Slashing Really an Issue in Proof-of-Stake Blockchains

Slashing is a key component of the blockchain security mechanism in proof-of-stake networks. However, we haven't heard much about the cases when it is applied.

Alexander Mardar
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