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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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Circle   -   Jun 20, 2023 Stablecoin Company Circle Not Giving Ground, Adds Bridge For USDC
USDC Circle CCPT Bridge

Circle is finding its way past a rough year. In the last couple of months, the FinTech company launched USDC on Arbitrium, Euro Coin on Avalanche and introduced its own cross-chain bridge protocol.

Eva Senzaj Pauram
CBDC   -   Jun 20, 2023 BIS and BofE Develop Standardized Ledger-Agnostic API for Retail CBDCs
BIS and BofE Develop Standardized Ledger-Agnostic API for Retail CBDCs

Project Rosalind provides a communication layer between both account-based and token-based ledgers maintained by a central bank and user front-ends developed by ecosystem service and payment interface providers.

Jack Martin
Trading   -   Jun 20, 2023 BlackRock Files Application with U.S. SEC for Spot Bitcoin ETF
Blackrock Bitcoin spot ETF

The investment giant submitted the paperwork late last week through its iShares unit, with custody to be provided by Coinbase and price data coming from CF Benchmarks.

Jack Martin
Newsletters   -   Jun 18, 2023 Sunday Review 18/06/2023
Sunday Review 18/06/2023

Over 40 years after the death of John Lennon, Paul McCartney this week announced that a 'final' song by The Beatles would be released this year, thanks to advances in AI technology. Of course, by the time McCartney dies, AI will likely have advanced so much that it

Jack Martin
Ethereum   -   Jun 18, 2023 Ethereum 'Dencun' Upgrade To Make Network Cheaper Via 'Proto-danksharding'
Ethereum 'Dencun' Upgrade To Make Network Cheaper Via 'Proto-danksharding'

Ethereum developers have approved the list of improvements to be included in Ethereum's next major update. The update is expected at the end of 2023

Alex Harutunian
Exchanges   -   Jun 18, 2023 Binance Under Investigation by French Authorities for Money Laundering
Binance Under Investigation by French Authorities for Money Laundering

Binance, the world's largest crypto exchange, is being investigated in France for alleged money laundering, just one year after receiving regulatory approval in the country.

Mathilde Adam
Regulation   -   Jun 18, 2023 Brazil’s New Crypto Law Names Central Bank as ‘Market Sheriff’
Brazil’s New Crypto Law Names Central Bank as ‘Market Sheriff’

The crypto revolution in Brazil is ready to start. Seven months after approving the crypto assets law, Brazilian authorities agree on who plays the role of market sheriff.

Eva Senzaj Pauram
Adoption   -   Jun 17, 2023 Tencent Plans to Make Cross-Border Payments as Easy as Sending a Text
Tencent Wechat Weixin 1+1+1 Money 2020

The company also unveiled its “1+1+1” model, which aims to create an open global payment network, harnessing Chinese innovation to drive borderless payment.

Jack Martin
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