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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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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
Soramitsu   -   Aug 09, 2023 Blockchain Firm Soramitsu Plans Asia-wide Digital Payment Network
Soramitsu Vivit Tama Asia Bakong

Soramitsu plans to connect its Cambodia-based RTGS system, Bakong, to its cross-chain stablecoin exchange, creating a pan-Asian transfer and payment network.

Alex Harutunian
Coinbase   -   Aug 09, 2023 Base: Coinbase’s Ethereum Layer-2 Network Launches Mainnet Today
Coinbase BASE

Coinbase launches its Ethereum layer-2 network Base with the aim of bringing Web3 technology to more users. It will eventually form part of an interoperable 'Superchain' with Optimism.

Observers
Stablecoins   -   Aug 08, 2023 PayPal Finally Launches Dollar Stablecoin After SEC-related Delays
PayPal PYUSDT stablecoin

On Monday, online payments processor PayPal announced the launch of its long-promised dollar-pegged stablecoin. The token was originally expected in Q1 2023, but was delayed following an SEC notice against issuing partner Paxos.

Jack Martin
Payment System   -   Aug 07, 2023 Apple Savings Top $10 Billion, But Goldman Sachs Reportedly Wants Out
Apple Savings and Goldman Sachs

Apple Card’s high-yield savings account has seen over $10 billion in customer deposits since its launch in April, but banking partner Goldman Sachs allegedly wants to walk away from the arrangement, as it reduces the consumer-facing side of its business.

Jack Martin
Exchanges   -   Aug 07, 2023 Justin Sun Allegedly Drops $209 Million and Urges End to Huobi ‘FUD’
Justin Sun Allegedly Drops $209 Million and Urges End to Huobi ‘FUD’

Justin Sun allegedly transferred $209 million to help stabilize the crypto exchange that he controls. Does the extravagant crypto billionaire possess enough resources to weather the storm?

Sasha Markevich
Newsletters   -   Aug 06, 2023 Sunday Review 06/08/2023
Observers Sunday Review 06.08.2023

This week, a Chinese zoo felt the need to assure the general public that its sun bears were not people in costume, after a video went viral showing Angela the sun bear standing on her hind legs and waving at visitors in a very human-like manner. Conspiracy theorists on social

Jack Martin
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