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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
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. It 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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Stablecoins   -   Mar 06, 2025 Thailand Approves USDT and USDC as Regulated Stablecoins
Thailand Approves USDT and USDC as Regulated Stablecoins

Thailand’s SEC adds the two major dollar-backed stablecoins to its approved crypto list.

Rebecca Denton
Regulation   -   Mar 05, 2025 SEC v Crypto: All The Lawsuits Dropped This Year (So Far)
US SEC vs Crypto

Big changes as lawsuits and investigations are dropped one-by-one at the SEC under orders from the new U.S. Administration.

Rebecca Denton
Coins and tokens   -   Mar 04, 2025 Trump’s Crypto Reserve Plan Sparks Brief Market Surge, Then Drop
Trump’s Crypto Reserve Plan Sparks Brief Market Surge, Then Drop

The president of the United States announced a Crypto Strategic Reserve with Ripple, Solana and Cardano tokens along with Bitcoin and Ethereum. Following the announcement of a somewhat controversial list of digital assets, the market quickly cooled.

Rebecca Denton
Stablecoins   -   Mar 04, 2025 SBI VC Trade to Launch USDC Stablecoin Service in Japan
SBI VC Trade to Launch USDC Stablecoin Service in Japan

USDC becomes the first approved stablecoin in Japan as the country slowly eases stablecoin regulations after FSA approved policy changes last month.

Rebecca Denton
Regulation   -   Mar 03, 2025 Non-MiCA Compliant Stablecoins To Be Delisted on Binance
Non-MiCA Compliant Stablecoins To Be Delisted on Binance

Binance has announced the delisting of nine non-MiCA compliant stablecoins, including USDT and DAI. The exchange has advised users to convert holdings before the changes come into effect on March 31

Rebecca Denton
Adoption   -   Mar 03, 2025 Swiss National Bank Rejects Bitcoin as Reserve Asset
Swiss National Bank Rejects Bitcoin as Reserve Asset

The Swiss National Bank President Martin Schlegel dismissed Bitcoin as a "niche phenomenon," reaffirming the bank's commitment to traditional assets like gold.

Rebecca Denton
Newsletters   -   Mar 02, 2025 Sunday Review 02/03/2025
Sunday Review 02/03/2025

Happy Spring, Observers! It is all about perspective: while the prices of cryptocurrencies went downhill during the past week, on the regulatory front, the last couple of days were great. In the United States, the Court of Appeals dismissed the claims of a class action lawsuit against Uniswap that accused

Eva Senzaj Pauram
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