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Gaming   -   Sep 13, 2025 The Promise and Reality of Blockchain Games
blockchain gamers

After years of development, blockchain games still capture only a sliver of the gaming industry. The promise of true asset ownership, stable economies, and transferability remains unmet. Recent trends suggest blockchain was more hype feature than genuine necessity

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
DEX   -   Sep 09, 2025 Hyperliquid Joins Stablecoin Race, Books USDH Ticker
Hyperliquid Joins Stablecoin Race, Books USDH Ticker

Hyperliquid is preparing to launch its own stablecoin, USDH, through a validator-led governance vote. With USDC currently dominating its ecosystem, USDH would reduce reliance on external issuers and capture reserve yield. Paxos, Frax, Ethena, and an Agora–MoonPay coalition are competing to deploy it

Alex Harutunian
Crypto Funds and Institutional Trading   -   Sep 03, 2025 Ether Machine Turns Ethereum Into Wall Street Stock
Ether Machine Turns Ethereum Into Wall Street Stock

The Ether Machine is bringing Ethereum to Wall Street through a SPAC merger and $2.1B in committed assets. Backed by ConsenSys veterans, it mirrors MicroStrategy’s playbook with convertible financing and promotion, while adding staking and restaking strategies that ETFs and Bitcoin wrappers cannot

Alex Harutunian
Stablecoins   -   Aug 13, 2025 USDC’s Circle Showcases Post-IPO Strength, Building Its Own Blockchain and Payment Networks
USDC’s Circle Showcases Post-IPO Strength, Building Its Own Blockchain and Payment Networks

Circle’s first post-IPO results show USDC supply nearly doubled YoY to $61.3B, market share up to 26%, and revenue +53% to $658M. The $1.2B IPO boosted equity to $2.37B, funding new plays like the Circle Payments Network and Arc blockchain in a bid to challenge Tether’s dominance

Alex Harutunian
blockchain gamers
Gaming   -   Sep 13, 2025 The Promise and Reality of Blockchain Games

After years of development, blockchain games still capture only a sliver of the gaming industry. The promise of true asset ownership, stable economies, and transferability remains unmet. Recent trends suggest blockchain was more hype feature than genuine necessity

Alex Harutunian
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FTX   -   Nov 17, 2022 FTX Auditor Has an Office in the Metaverse
FTX Auditor Has an Office in the Metaverse

The collapse of FTX crypto exchange and the hype around it has put the company’s auditors in the spotlight. Apparently, the company that confirmed that FTX earned $1 billion in revenue in 2021, loves a good party in Decentraland metaverse.

Alex Harutunian
CBDC   -   Nov 16, 2022 US Fed Tests Wholesale CDBC With R3 Commercial Banks
New York Innovation Center logo and moto

The New York Innovation Center (NYIC), a joint project of US Fed and BIS, is launching a proof-of-concept project to explore the feasibility of an interoperable network of digital central bank liabilities and commercial bank digital money using distributed ledger technology.

Alex Harutunian
Ethereum   -   Nov 16, 2022 Vitalik Buterin Announced The Scourge – a New Stage in the Ethereum Roadmap
Vitalik Buterin Announced The Scourge – a New Stage in the Ethereum Roadmap

The Scourge is a new stage in the Ethereum Roadmap. Why is it needed and what will it bring to the network?

Alex Harutunian
Adoption   -   Nov 15, 2022 MoneyGram Opens Up Crypto For Its Users
MoneyGram and Coinme. Source: fintechnews.am

MoneyGram announced that they are launching cryptocurrency trading in partnership with a crypto exchange Coinme. Users of MoneyGram, a financial services provider, can now trade cryptocurrencies in a mobile application. The list of digital currencies is limited to Bitcoin, Ether, and Litecoin. The new feature is available to U.S.

Observers
NFT   -   Nov 14, 2022 Multi-Billion-Dollar Hack or FUD? Gala Games' Troubles
gala games

Gala Games faced an exploit that could have potentially brought hackers several billion dollars.

Alex Harutunian
Exchanges   -   Nov 13, 2022 FTX Crisis. Is Tron Helping or Earning?
Justin Sun and FTX logo

On October 10 FTX announced that it reached an agreement with Tron to allow the holders of Tron-based tokens to swap them from FTX to external wallets.

Sasha Markevich
Exchanges   -   Nov 13, 2022 Binance and Iran. What’s Up?
Binance Global Head of Sanctions Chagri Poyraz blog post cover with Iranian flag and "banned" sign

Reuters recently [again] accused Binance of processing transactions from Iran worth over $8 billion despite U.S. sanctions. And this is not for the first time.

Sasha Markevich
Regulation   -   Nov 13, 2022 Issuers of Circle and Paxos Stablecoins Have Received Licenses From the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS)
 PAXOS and Circle logos against Singapore landscape

Circle and Paxos can now officially conduct transactions with their stablecoins, as well as other digital payment tokens in Singapore.

Alex Harutunian
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