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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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Regulation   -   Jul 15, 2023 Ripple Secures a Partial Win Against the SEC
Ripple Secures a Partial Win Against the SEC

A U.S. judge ruled yesterday that Ripple's XRP token is not a security for programmatic sales. Several exchanges are planning to relist XRP on their platforms following the ruling, and many major crypto prices saw a boost.

Mathilde Adam
Blockchain Intelligence   -   Jul 14, 2023 Arkham Launches 'Intel-to-Earn' Marketplace to Reveal Wallet Owners
Arkham Launches 'Intel-to-Earn' Marketplace to Reveal Wallet Owners

Blockchain data provider Arkham launched the first on-chain data information marketplace. Are Web2 economics taking over Web3, or are “Intel bounties” going to make it a better place?

Eva Senzaj Pauram
Adoption   -   Jul 14, 2023 Merchants on Telegram Can Now Accept Crypto Payments Directly in App
Telegram wallet merchant payment

Telegram’s Wallet bot, which is powered by the TON blockchain, has just launched the functionality for merchants to accept retail payments in tether, bitcoin and TON tokens, directly within the app.

Jack Martin
Bitcoin   -   Jul 14, 2023 Bitcoin Gets Beach Body Ready for a Potential Long Hot (Crypto) Summer
Bitcoin Gets Beach Body Ready for a Potential Long Hot (Crypto) Summer

Recently there has been a lot of buzz building around Bitcoin again. Here is an overview of the latest updates on the most classy cryptocurrency trading trends.

Sasha Markevich
Regulation   -   Jul 12, 2023 Danish Authorities Order Saxo Bank To Sell Its Cryptocurrency Assets
Danish Authorities Order Saxo Bank To Sell Its Cryptocurrency Assets

Denmark's financial authority ordered Saxo bank to sell its cryptocurrency holdings after asserting that it did not constitute a legitimate business activity for a financial institution.

Observers
Adoption   -   Jul 12, 2023 Avoid ‘Failure of Imagination’ on Enhanced Digital Money: BofE Governor
Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey

The Governor of the Bank of England told an audience that an inability to specify a precise detailed use case today was no reason to put off investigating the future potential of ‘enhanced digital money’.

Jack Martin
central banks   -   Jul 11, 2023 FedNow Promises to Finally Bring U.S. Payments System into 21st-Century
FedNow Promises to Finally Bring U.S. Payments System into 21st-Century

Better late than never… The launch of the Federal Reserve’s FedNow service later this month will bring 24/7/365 instant payments to the U.S. banking system, making it the last major global economy to officially implement such functionality.

Jack Martin
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