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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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NFT   -   Feb 17, 2023 Ordinal NFTs Are Disrupting Bitcoin Network
Ordinal NFTs Are Disrupting Bitcoin Network

Ordinals, an NFT-like project on the Bitcoin blockchain, has gained momentum over the past month, signalling an opportunity for the biggest cryptocurrency. But its accessibility and security still needs to be improved.

Alex Harutunian
CBDC   -   Feb 16, 2023 Keeping Bankers Happy Could Undermine Digital Euro Before Development Even Starts
Bankers and CBDC

Although the European Central Bank is still undertaking its investigative stages concerning a potential Euro-Zone CBDC, it already seems to be tying itself in knots trying to limit potential disruption to the status quo as far as commercial banks are concerned.

Jack Martin
Update   -   Feb 16, 2023 UPD: Centre Pompidou Museum to Display CryptoPunks and Autoglyphs NFTs
UPD: Centre Pompidou Museum to Display CryptoPunks and Autoglyphs NFTs

Yuga Labs donated CryptoPunk #110 and Larva Labs donated Autoglyph #25 NFTs to the Centre Pompidou for its exhibition scheduled for this coming spring.

Alex Harutunian
Adoption   -   Feb 15, 2023 The Sur: a Trading Coin of Argentina and Brazil
Inácio Lula da Silva and Alberto Fernandez at the signing ceremony

Last month Brazilian president Inácio Lula da Silva and his Argentine counterpart, Alberto Fernandez, reignited the idea of a common currency as a means towards an economically independent future.

Observers
Regulation   -   Feb 15, 2023 EU Banks Face New Rules for Crypto Asset Risk Management
EU euro logo with skyscrapers

The European Parliament has released a legal draft that confirms the implementation of strict rules for European banks' involvement with crypto assets. Under the proposed rules, crypto assets would be treated as the riskiest type of asset.

Observers
Stablecoins   -   Feb 14, 2023 Is BUSD Illegal?
BUSD in the stop sign

As part of cooperating with the New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS), Paxos Trust should stop issuing Binance USD.

Alex Harutunian
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