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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 31, 2023 A New Stage in the Investigation Against Terra Employees
The founders of Terra, Kwon and Shin, and the Judge's Hammer.

The legal representative of Do Kwon is trying to appeal the decision of the Court in Montenegro and the issue of extradition of Kwon from Montenegro is also being resolved. South Korea is once again launching a prosecution against a former Terra employee, Daniel Shin.

Alex Harutunian
Stablecoins   -   Mar 31, 2023 Tether Stablecoins Linked to the Euro and Gold are Available on Bit2Me
Bit2Me logo and Tether logo with gold and Euro.

Users of the platform Bit2Me can make transactions with Tether Gold (XAUT) and Euro Tether (EURT).

Alex Harutunian
Research   -   Mar 31, 2023 How Does Mining Help Cure Cancer?
How Does Mining Help Cure Cancer?

The Mapping Cancer Markers project, with the help of the World Community Grid research project, calculated 26 new genes associated with lung cancer.

Alex Harutunian
Mar 30, 2023 Our 10 Most Popular Articles About Crypto World on Medium
Our 10 Most Popular Articles About Crypto World on Medium

Our first article on Medium “Helium receives $200M funding in Series D” was published on April 11, 2022. Since then our team of Observers have written over 600 stories about crypto, Web3 and moneytech. Here are the Top-10 of our most viewed articles.

Sasha Markevich
NFT   -   Mar 30, 2023 Magic Eden Launches Bitcoin Ordinals for NFT Traders
Magic Eden Launches Bitcoin Ordinals for NFT Traders

Magic Eden, the largest Solana-based NFT marketplace, has launched its “audited” Bitcoin Ordinals for NFT traders.

Alex Harutunian
Adoption Tools   -   Mar 30, 2023 General Bytes Users' Hot Wallets are Compromised Through It's Video Upload Service
General Bytes Users' Hot Wallets are Compromised Through It's Video Upload Service

General Bytes, a Czech based cryptocurrency ATMs manufacturer, lost $1.5 million worth of clients’ crypto in hot wallet hack that used its cloud service. The company has closed the cloud service and promised to reimburse the losses to the victims.

Alex Harutunian
Stablecoins   -   Mar 29, 2023 Hayes Explains Problems With Stablecoins, Proposes a New Type
Hayes Explains Problems With Stablecoins, Proposes a New Type

Arthur Hayes, the co-founder and former CEO of crypto exchange BitMEX, criticized both custodian and decentralized stablecoins and proposed a new stablecoin called the Satoshi Nakamoto Dollar, or NakaDollar (NUSD). Unlike existing stablecoins, NUSD would be supported only by Bitcoin.

Alex Harutunian
Adoption   -   Mar 29, 2023 Technology Alliance to Enable Smooth Mutual Transfer and Exchange of a Wide Variety of Stablecoins in Japan
Technology Alliance to Enable Smooth Mutual Transfer and Exchange of a Wide Variety of Stablecoins in Japan

Datachain, Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking Corporation, and Soramitsu announced a technology alliance to enable smooth transfer and exchange of stablecoins to be issued in Japan.

Alex Harutunian
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