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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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Stablecoins   -   Dec 24, 2022 BUSD Responds Immediately to Binance FUD
BUSD Responds Immediately to Binance FUD

The FUD around Binance instantly affected BUSD. After withdrawing several billion dollars from the exchange and stopping the withdrawal of USDC, the exchange's own stablecoin loses market capitalization.

Alex Harutunian
Litigation   -   Dec 23, 2022 Celsius. Sale of Company Assets and Galaxy Digital Deal
Celsius Bankruptcy presentation December 2022

Celsius' bankruptcy court got updated asset values and engaged in the operational asset sell-off.

Alex Harutunian
NFT   -   Dec 23, 2022 Yuga Labs is Facing a Lawsuit for Conspiring with Celebrities
Yuga Labs is Facing a Lawsuit for Conspiring with Celebrities

Yuga Labs is facing a class action lawsuit over misleading endorsements of NFTs by celebrities. The court filing stated that Yuga Labs secretly paid the celebrities to promote Bored Ape NFTs through MoonPay company.

Alex Harutunian
Business   -   Dec 22, 2022 Musk Looks For a New Twitter CEO
Elon Musk and Twitter. Source: foxbusiness.com

Twitter users opted for Musk’s resigning as Twitter CEO. No replacement has yet been found (or announced). Elon Musk raised a poll on his Twitter whether he should leave his position as CEO of the social media company. Majority of the users, which is 57.5% out of 17,

Observers
NFT   -   Dec 22, 2022 Trump’s NFT Collection: Prices Surge, Then Hit the Floor
Trump’s NFT Collection: Prices Surge, Then Hit the Floor

Former US President Donald Trump’s NFT trading card collection sold out in a weekend after its release. But then metrics went down and the hype around the project began to fade.

Alex Harutunian
Bitcoin   -   Dec 21, 2022 Bitcoin Half Price. GBTC Troubles
Bitcoin Half Price. GBTC Troubles

Grayscale Investments, a subsidiary of Digital Currency Group, is experiencing serious problems with its main product, the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (GBTC). GBTC shares are trading at a record discount, which on December 13 reached -48.89% according to ycharts.com.

Sasha Markevich
Bitcoin   -   Dec 21, 2022 False Satoshi Wins £1. Causes £900,000 Damage
Screenshot of McCormack podcast about Craig Wright

The U.K. court has ruled that crypto podcaster Peter McCormack should pay Craig Wright, the Australian scientist who claims to be Bitcoin inventor Satoshi Nakamoto, around 900,000 British pounds (USD $1.1 million) in costs following their legal battle.

Alex Harutunian
Exchanges   -   Dec 21, 2022 FTX Drags Down a U.S. Bank
Farmington State Bank. Source: spokesman.com

FTX’s collapse revealed numerous skeletons in the closet of the company. One of the skeletons appeared to be U.S. Farmington State Bank, which FTX owned through a subsidiary.

Observers
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