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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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CBDC   -   Jun 22, 2023 Russia Shaping its Digital Ruble: Fresh Amendments to The Pending Law
Russia Shaping its Digital Ruble: Fresh Amendments to The Pending Law

The recent fine-tuning amendments to Russia's digital ruble legislation indicate an ever-closer launch of the country's Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC)

Alex Harutunian
Trading   -   Jun 21, 2023 After BlackRock Two More Bitcoin ETF Applications are Spotted with SEC
WisdomTree Invesco spot Bitcoin ETF

Optimism must be in the air, as investment firms WisdomTree and Invesco have both filed spot bitcoin ETF applications with the SEC, within a week of that by BlackRock.

Jack Martin
Stablecoins   -   Jun 21, 2023 Tether Depeg and CoinDesk: Hostile Competition or Just a Coincidence?
Tether logo, Coindesk logo, USDT price chart

Last week Tether's USDT stablecoin suffered a brief depeg to 99 cents. The issue was potentially significant due to the surrounding circumstances.

Alex Harutunian
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
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