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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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Newsletters   -   Oct 08, 2023 Sunday Review 08/10/2023
Observers.com Sunday Review

There were concerns raised with the regulators of the Peruvian film industry this week, as Paddington in Peru announced that it would be filming scenes in Colombia, due to unnecessary bureaucracy in the popular imaginary bear's actual country of origin. And while we're on unnecessary bureaucracy

Jack Martin
Ripple   -   Oct 07, 2023 SEC Loses Motion for Appeal Against Preliminary Ripple Judgement
SEC Loses Motion for Appeal Against Preliminary Ripple Judgement

In another victory for Ripple, a federal judge has dismissed the SEC's appeal request, paving the way for a final trial in April. Ripple has also recently secured a Singapore license, solidifying its commitment to the Asia Pacific expansion.

Mathilde Adam
Litigation   -   Oct 07, 2023 Sam Bankman-Fried is Finally in the Dock and Accusations are Flying
Sam Bankman-Fried is Finally in the Dock and Accusations are Flying

Here is what we have learned from the first few days of former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried's high-profile trial.

Sasha Markevich
Adoption Tools   -   Oct 06, 2023 Friend.tech Clone Hit With Non-Profitable Exploit in Revenge Attack?
Friend.tech tiger

In its under two months of existence, Friend.tech has pumped, died and been revived, then been cloned, hacked, and the clone reportedly hacked at a loss to protect its monopoly. Safe to say that our original skepticism towards the project is yet to have softened.

Jack Martin
Investments   -   Oct 05, 2023 Ethereum Futures ETFs Fail to Set the World on Fire: Back to Bitcoin?
Ethereum ETF

Just $6.6 million worth of volume was seen across the first day of trading across nine different Ethereum ETF products, prompting some analysts to suggest investors “rotate back” into Bitcoin.

Jack Martin
Adoption   -   Oct 04, 2023 UBS Launches Tokenized Variable Capital Company Fund in Singapore
UBS tokenization

The fund is part of Project Guardian, an initiative led by the Monetary Authority of Singapore to bring multiple real-world assets onto the blockchain.

Jack Martin
Audit   -   Oct 04, 2023 FTX Auditing Firm Charged With Hundreds of Violations by SEC
FTX Auditing Firm Charged With Hundreds of Violations by SEC

Prager Metis, the firm that audited FTX accounts in 2021, was charged by the SEC with multiple auditor independence violations.

Eva Senzaj Pauram
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