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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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Blockchain   -   Sep 07, 2023 Vitalik Buterin Proposes Privacy Solution to Solve Tornado Cash Issues
Privacy Pools Blokcchain Vitalik Buterin

Ethereum’s founder unveils the Privacy Pools concept in a new paper. These allow users to achieve greater privacy around their financial transactions while minimising the chance of abuse by bad actors.

Alexander Mardar
Adoption   -   Sep 07, 2023 Visa Stablecoin Pilot Extends to Solana Network and Merchant Acquirers
Visa Stablecoin Pilot Extends to Solana Network and Merchant Acquirers

The payments giant has been accepting USDC payments on Ethereum from card-issuer Crypto.com in Australia since 2021, and will now use the cheaper Solana network to settle cross-border transactions with Merchant Acquirers, Worldpay and Nuvei, which collect payments on behalf of global retailers.

Jack Martin
Cryptocurrency   -   Sep 06, 2023 Crypto Wealth Distribution: Only 0.02% Of Users Are Millionaires
Crypto millionaires and billionaires Lambo

A new report by Henley & Partners shines a light on how cryptocurrency wealth is distributed and how to keep it safe with a Plan B in case of future regulation or prohibition.

Eva Senzaj Pauram
Blockchain   -   Sep 06, 2023 10 (+1) Ideas for a Better Crypto Future Proposed by Brian Armstrong
10 (+1) Ideas for a Better Crypto Future Proposed by Brian Armstrong

The Coinbase CEO called for blockchain builders to bid for the company's venture capital funds, and even proposed 11 promising ideas to give them a head start. The ideas, ranging from a new stablecoin type to a 'Web3 LinkedIn', will likely be curated for Coinbase's new L2 blockchain Base.

Sasha Markevich
Coins and tokens   -   Sep 05, 2023 Schiermeyer vs. Thurston: Gala Games Most Ferocious PvP Thus Far
Gala Games Founders clash

Theft, treason, offshore companies, firearms, hostage situations, character assassination, private jets, scheming - Gala Games CEO and the company’s director have taken years of private quarrels to court.

Eva Senzaj Pauram
Adoption   -   Sep 04, 2023 Swift Payment System Taps Chainlink To Connect Banks to Blockchains
connecting blockchains to banks SWIFT Chainlink

Swift, which has long been international banking’s preferred cross-border payments messaging system of choice, has published the results of an investigation into connecting traditional banks to the myriad of blockchain choices in order to leverage tokenized assets.

Jack Martin
Newsletters   -   Sep 03, 2023 Sunday Review 03/09/2023
Sunday Review 03/09/2023

Burning Man, the annual arts and culture festival held in the dusty Nevada desert (and much championed by Crypto Bros) has been turned into a mud bath this year due to heavy rains over the past few days. Also accused of not living up to its promise this week is

Jack Martin
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