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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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Hacks, Bugs and Scams   -   Mar 18, 2025 North Korea Becomes Third-Largest Government Bitcoin Holder After Bybit Hack
north korea holds bitcoin

North Korea is now the third-largest government Bitcoin holder, thanks to a $1.5 billion Bybit hack by its Lazarus Group. With 13,562 BTC, it surpasses Bhutan and El Salvador. Meanwhile, the U.S. and China still dominate bitcoin holdings also without any purchases made

Rebecca Denton
Regulation   -   Mar 17, 2025 Trump’s Crypto Gamble "Risks Global Financial Turmoil"
François Villeroy de Galhau

French Central Bank Chief made the stark warning in a recent interview, calling the recent embrace of the crypto industry "sinning through negligence"

Rebecca Denton
L1   -   Mar 17, 2025 Binance’s BNB Chain Dominates Meme Trades
BNB Chain is driven by meme coin activity

A significant boost from meme coin traders has driven the surge of Binance blockchain activity, allowing it to overtake Solana in daily DEX trading volume for the first time. With endorsements from Binance founder CZ BNB Chain is emerging as a major hub for meme tokens

Rebecca Denton
Newsletters   -   Mar 16, 2025 Sunday Review 16/03/2025
Sunday Review Observers

Happy Sunday, Observers! The wave of day traders and degens throwing in the towel continues, but on the institutional size, the game is just getting started. In the past seven days, MoonPay acquired Iron, MEXC Ventures invested $16 million in ENA and $20 million in USDe, MGX invested $2 billion

Eva Senzaj Pauram
Adoption Tools   -   Mar 14, 2025 Crypto Hardware Wallet Rivalry: Ledger Evaluates Trezor’s Security
Trezor Ledger

Hardware wallet provider Ledger evaluated it's competitor's Trezor Safe wallet family and reported on a potential risk in Trezor’s Safe 3 model.

Sasha Markevich
Regulation   -   Mar 12, 2025 Does the IMF Shield the U.S. Dollar in El Salvador?
Does the IMF Shield the U.S. Dollar in El Salvador?

The International Monetary Fund is pressuring El Salvador to scale back its Bitcoin adoption by leveraging loan funds. Despite the IMF agreement, El Salvador remains committed to expanding its BTC reserves, with President Bukele insisting, "It won’t stop now, and it won’t stop in the future."

Rebecca Denton
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