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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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Bridges and Interoperability   -   Jan 10, 2023 UPD: Nomad exploiter transfers about $1.5M to Tornado Cash

About $1.5 million was transferred from the address associated with the Nomad exploit to the Tornado Cash. Apparently the attackers are trying to cash out the funds.

Alex Harutunian
Stablecoins   -   Jan 09, 2023 Core Scientific Disables Mining Machines for Celsius
Core Scientific Disables Mining Machines for Celsius

It transpired that on January 3, Bitcoin miner Core Scientific and Celsius reached an agreement to disable more than 37 thousand mining machines.

Alex Harutunian
Hacks, Bugs and Scams   -   Jan 08, 2023 More Than 235 million Twitter Accounts Data is Free to Download!
More Than 235 million Twitter Accounts Data is Free to Download!

An unknown hacker was able to obtain the personal data of more than 400 million Twitter accounts. The database contains phone numbers, e-mail addresses and usernames of affected users. Recently, a database of 235 million users was leaked to the network.

Alex Harutunian
Stablecoins   -   Jan 07, 2023 The Vader Protocol and USDV Stablecoin Cease to Exist
The Vader Protocol and USDV Stablecoin Cease to Exist

On December 29, the Vader team informed users about the closure of the Vader Protocol US Dollar (USDV). This decision was due to the fact that the algorithmic stablecoin functioned as Terra, which is dangerous, and no effective restructuring methods were found.

Alex Harutunian
Worldwide   -   Jan 04, 2023 Brazil’s PIX: the End of Paper Currency in the Country
Brazil’s PIX: the End of Paper Currency in the Country

Pix, a well-developed unified instant payment system, is moving the South American giant towards digitalization.

Sasha Markevich
Stablecoins   -   Jan 04, 2023 A Record 2022. Transactions in Stablecoins Exceeded $7 Trillion
A Record 2022. Transactions in Stablecoins Exceeded $7 Trillion

Coin Metrics released a review on the state of the network, the data showed that 2022 was a record year for payments in stablecoins on the network. The amount of transactions in stablecoins amounted to $7.4 trillion.

Alex Harutunian
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