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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   -   Jan 22, 2023 BAYC Sales Rise Ahead of Skill-based NFT Game “Dookey Dash”
BAYC Sales Rise Ahead of Skill-based NFT Game “Dookey Dash”

Yuga Labs, the company behind the popular NFT collection BAYC, has announced the launch of their new blockchain game, Dookey Dash.

Alex Harutunian
Stablecoins   -   Jan 21, 2023 "Token of the Persian Gulf Region” from Iran and Russia
Gold coin on the background of the flags of Russia and Iran.

The authorities in Russia and Iran are discussing the creation of a stablecoin tied to gold. The "Token of the Persian Gulf region" will be used for cross-border payments, but first a legislative framework for regulating cryptocurrencies is required.

Alex Harutunian
Metrics and Signals   -   Jan 21, 2023 MVRV. A Signal to Buy Bitcoin Now?
MVRV Bitcoin BTC USD 2012-2022

MVRV, a ratio that compares the market capitalization of an asset to its realized capitalization, indicates the beginning of the accumulation phase.

Sasha Markevich
CBDC   -   Jan 21, 2023 Nigeria Non-cash Struggles
Nigeria Cash eNaira ATM restrictions cash withdrawal CBN

The Central Bank of Nigeria has slightly eased the cash withdrawal limits policy announced earlier. Nigeria is still on route to a full non-cash economy

Alex Harutunian
Update   -   Jan 20, 2023 UPD: Tether overtakes Visa and MasterCard in terms of settlement volume
Tether overtakes Visa and MasterCard

As we wrote earlier, 2022 was quite a difficult year for stablecoins, but they managed to reach a record settlement volume, exceeding $7 trillion. Then, Peter Johnson predicted that the total settlement volume of stablecoins in 2023 would bypass Visa.

Alex Harutunian
Ethereum   -   Jan 20, 2023 Shanghai Upgrade: Withdrawal of Staked ETH
Shanghai Upgrade: Withdrawal of Staked ETH

Ethereum developers are removing unnecessary elements from the Shanghai Upgrade to allow users to withdraw stacked ETH as soon as possible.

Alex Harutunian
NFT   -   Jan 20, 2023 “Game of Thrones” NFTs Sell Out Despite Being Ridiculous
“Game of Thrones” NFTs Sell Out Despite Being Ridiculous

“Game of Thrones” Build Your Realm NFT cards sold out in 7 hours, but some buyers were rightfully unhappy with what they got.

Alex Harutunian
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