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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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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
Update   -   Jan 19, 2023 UPD: Sales of Trump NFTs Almost Vanish
UPD: Sales of Trump NFTs Almost Vanish

So far January sales total for Trump’s NFTs has reduced over 99%, much lower than peak day in December, which makes us think that the demand was just a bubble.

Alex Harutunian
Genesis   -   Jan 19, 2023 Genesis Trading Lays off 30% of Staff. Troubles Continue
Layoff letter in hands with Genesis logo on background

Genesis Trading lays off 30% of its workforce in attempt to avoid a bankruptcy filing.

Sasha Markevich
Update   -   Jan 18, 2023 UPD: Logan Paul Presents $1.5M Recovery Plan for CryptoZoo
UPD: Logan Paul Presents $1.5M Recovery Plan for CryptoZoo

Following a critical series of videos on NFT project CryptoZoo, published by his fellow YouTuber CoffeeZilla, Paul apologised and proposed a 3-step recovery plan.

Alex Harutunian
Litigation   -   Jan 17, 2023 Ownership of Earn Assets and a Lawsuit Against Alex Mashinsky
Celsius logo on the background of judicial symbols.

Martin Glenn, the federal judge dealing with the bankruptcy of Celsius, ruled that the funds under the Earn program belong to Celsius. At the same time, Letitia James, the Attorney General of New York, filed a lawsuit against Alex Mashinsky.

Alex Harutunian
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