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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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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
NFT   -   Dec 21, 2022 UPD: Apple to Allow Third-party App Stores in Compliance with New EU Laws
UPD: Apple to Allow Third-party App Stores in Compliance with New EU Laws

Crypto app developers can rejoice now as the new EU laws will force Apple to permit alternative app stores and apps without the need to go through its own App Store.

Alex Harutunian
CBDC   -   Dec 21, 2022 Project Garuda. Indonesia Joins the CBDC Club
Illustration from Indonesian CBDC paper

On November 30, right after G20 Summit in Indonesia, the Central Bank of the country presented the "Garuda Project" - a road map for the development and implementation of CBDC in the national economy.

Alex Harutunian
Bridge   -   Dec 21, 2022 The Сollapse of Alameda Affected the Ren Protocol
The Сollapse of Alameda Affected the Ren Protocol

Ren Protocol warned its users about the risk of losing funds due to the shutdown of the Ren 1.0 version protocol. The shutdown was caused by funding problems due to the collapse of Alameda.

Alex Harutunian
Stablecoins   -   Dec 21, 2022 Hong Kong Monetary Authority on Crypto Crush Spillover and Stablecoins
Hong Kong Monetary Authority on Crypto Crush Spillover and Stablecoins

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority has published a study indicating stablecoins not only transmit but also magnify crypto volatility effects on traditional financial markets.

Alex Harutunian
Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF)   -   Dec 20, 2022 Crypto News by SBF: the Block
Crypto News by SBF: the Block

It was found that The Block was secretly funded by SBF.

Sasha Markevich
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