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Oracles   -   Oct 25, 2025 Crowd-Sourced Truth from Prediction Markets
Illustration of a crowd observing or pointing toward a shared goal, symbolizing the collective discovery of truth through prediction markets

From Polymarket’s stripped-down design to Kalshi’s regulatory breakthrough, prediction markets are turning collective opinion into a financial asset class — and a new battleground over who defines truth

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
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
DEX   -   Sep 18, 2025 Curve’s Egorov Proposes a New Solution to DeFi's Pain
Michael Egorov proposes Yield Basis pool in Curve protocol

Curve Finance is launching Yield Basis with a $60M crvUSD credit line. The product aims to eliminate impermanent loss for liquidity providers, and at the same time transform CRV from a governance token into an income-generating asset with revenues shared back to holders

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
Illustration of a crowd observing or pointing toward a shared goal, symbolizing the collective discovery of truth through prediction markets
Oracles   -   Oct 25, 2025 Crowd-Sourced Truth from Prediction Markets

From Polymarket’s stripped-down design to Kalshi’s regulatory breakthrough, prediction markets are turning collective opinion into a financial asset class — and a new battleground over who defines truth

Alex Harutunian
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Newsletters   -   Aug 13, 2023 Sunday Review 13/08/2023
Observers Sunday Review 13/08/2023

Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic launched the first tourist flight to space this week, carrying a former Olympian and a mother and daughter from the Caribbean. But wen moon? Maybe a recap of the week's crypto news will help us to find out. Two big launches here

Jack Martin
Adoption   -   Aug 13, 2023 Real World Assets On Blockchain: Study of ABS in China
Real World Assets On Blockchain: Study of ABS in China

Asset-Backed Securities are among the most likely candidates for moving onto the blockchain. An empirical study reveals significant benefits from using the technology.

Alex Harutunian
Blockchain   -   Aug 13, 2023 Thailand's Dominant Crypto Exchange Pushes Its Blockchain, Explores AI
Thailand's Dominant Crypto Exchange Pushes Its Blockchain, Explores AI

Thailand's largest crypto exchange is developing a full blockchain ecosystem targeting the local audience.

Observers
NFT   -   Aug 13, 2023 Rage Against The Machine: NFT Trader Tricks Bot Out of 800 ETH
Rage Against The Machine: NFT Trader Tricks Bot Out of 800 ETH

An NFT trader tricked a copy-trading bot into overpaying for several Azuki collectibles. But did he do anything legally or morally wrong?

Eva Senzaj Pauram
Adoption   -   Aug 11, 2023 Aptos Labs Partners Microsoft: Using AI to Assist Web3 Onboarding
Aptos Labs Partners Microsoft: Using AI to Assist Web3 Onboarding

Aptos Labs hopes to remove some of the barriers to Web3 adoption by partnering with Microsoft to provide a natural language AI assistant to answer user questions regarding the transition from Web2.0

Jack Martin
Worldcoin   -   Aug 11, 2023 WorldCoin Faces Investigation from Governments Around the Globe
Orbs Sam Altman Worldc

Argentina is the latest country to open an investigation into Worldcoin, following the United Kingdom, France, and Germany. In Kenya, Worldcoin's activities came to an abrupt halt after authorities seized Orbs and raided the company’s Nairobi warehouse.

Eva Senzaj Pauram
CBDC   -   Aug 10, 2023 DREX: Brazil’s CBDC Platform Named and Supercharged by Smart Contracts
Fabio Araujo DREX digital real

Brazil’s Central Bank has announced the official name of its Real Digital platform. DREX will allow the deployment of smart contracts to make financial services more accessible.

Eva Senzaj Pauram
Exchanges   -   Aug 09, 2023 Crypto is More Beanie Baby Than Security: Coinbase Defiant Against SEC
Crypto is More Beanie Baby Than Security: Coinbase Defiant Against SEC

Coinbase has moved to have the SEC lawsuit against it dismissed, arguing simply that it does not trade securities. But as it launches its own Ethereum L2 network, we are getting mixed messages over crypto’s worth and whether or not the SEC asked it to delist all tokens but bitcoin.

Jack Martin
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