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
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
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
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
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
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
Balancer Protocol was exploited through a tiny rounding bug in its code. As losses neared $100 million, projects froze pools, rolled back blockchains, and clawed back funds—revealing the centralized and still untamed side of decentralized finance
19.11.2025 Ondo Finance secures approval to offer tokenized US stocks in Europe. 19.11.2025 Vitalik Buterin predicts quantum computing advances before 2028. 19.11.2025 Robinhood to enable permissionless access to tokenized stocks, allowing transfers to external wallets and use in DeFi. 19.11.2025 Kraken secures
29.10.25 Ondo Finance launches Ondo Global Markets on BNB Chain. 29.10.25 Ethereum Foundation launches portal to guide institutional adoption. 29.10.25 Securitize goes public via SPAC merger with Cantor Fitzgerald’s CF Acquisition Corp VIII. 28.10.25 Trump Media & Technology Group to launch
Kazakhstan launched a state-backed crypto reserve, Alem Crypto Fund, partnering with Binance Kazakhstan and starting with an investment in $BNB. SWIFT is building a blockchain ledger with 30+ banks using Consensys. Polish lawmakers passed a Crypto-Asset Market Act, aligning rules with the EU’s MiCAR. Vitalik Buterin opposes EU’s
Uniswap’s Unichain has boosted L2 volumes past $40B, but liquidity tells a different story. TVL has halved since July, exposing the limits of incentive-driven growth. Despite cheaper fees, users remain on Ethereum—where Uniswap continues to be one of the network’s largest revenue engines.
TON Strategy Company, formerly Verb Technology, has rebranded as a Toncoin treasury, holding $713M in TON and targeting over 5% of supply. By staking its holdings and adopting financial engineering akin to Strategy’s playbook, it aims to turn crypto reserves into shareholder returns
From $GOAT to $FART, memecoins show how hype burns fast and budgets vanish faster. Market caps in the tens of millions may look like real businesses, but behind the joke lies sunk marketing spend, fragile communities, and the math of attention that always runs out of breath
Jito’s BAM transforms MEV on Solana from a private auction into a transparent, programmable marketplace. While Ethereum introduced PBS, Solana may now be a step ahead—embedding MEV handling directly into the protocol with greater flexibility and developer access.
Circle’s decision to bring native USDC to Hyperliquid underscores the chain’s rise as an institutional-grade DeFi hub, while advancing its strategy to make USDC the default stablecoin — trusted, redeemable, and seamlessly transferable across chains
Astar is a multi-chain smart contract platform for the Polkadot community that supports multiple blockchains, different layer-two solutions and virtual machines.
Sasha Markevich
Together with Holepunch and Synonym, Tether will launch a P2P сredit system, Pear Credit, in 2023.
Alex Harutunian
Hong Kong will abandon the previously proposed limiting of crypto trading to professional investors and will now consider allowing individuals to operate in crypto exchanges. These steps should help achieve the goal of becoming an international crypto hub.
ObserversAs we wrote earlier, the Celsius bankruptcy trial has been going on for several months. The company has submitted various petitions to the court, thereby trying to improve its situation. Despite the fact that some of the proposals from Celsius were approved by the court, this has not always happen.
Alex HarutunianAs we wrote earlier, the creator of Terra, Do Kwon, was put on the international wanted list by Interpol thanks to the South Korean authorities. Also, by order of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of South Korea, Kwon had to hand over his Korean passport. Recently it became known that
Alex Harutunian
A full-page bleed ad of Circle, the largest stablecoin issuer, appeared in the latest Economist volume. The image depicts the U.S. Seal part of the one-dollar bill combined with USDC die cast seal designed by Mark Grambau. The advertising is matched with a large article about recent elections in
Alex Harutunian
November 1, 2022 The first pilot of India’s CDBC, the e-rupee, commenced today. It will test the wholesale segment (e₹-W) in bond transactions with nine banks. The retail segment (e₹-R) is planned for launch within a month.
Sasha Markevich
Against the background of the automatic conversion of a number of stablecoins to BUSD, the market share among all stablecoins of the BUSD token increased from 10.01% to 15.48%. FTX CEO announced in an interview about the possible launch of the company's own stablecoin.
Alex Harutunian
Balancer Protocol was exploited through a tiny rounding bug in its code. As losses neared $100 million, projects froze pools, rolled back blockchains, and clawed back funds—revealing the centralized and still untamed side of decentralized finance
19.11.2025 Ondo Finance secures approval to offer tokenized US stocks in Europe. 19.11.2025 Vitalik Buterin predicts quantum computing advances before 2028. 19.11.2025 Robinhood to enable permissionless access to tokenized stocks, allowing transfers to external wallets and use in DeFi. 19.11.2025 Kraken secures
29.10.25 Ondo Finance launches Ondo Global Markets on BNB Chain. 29.10.25 Ethereum Foundation launches portal to guide institutional adoption. 29.10.25 Securitize goes public via SPAC merger with Cantor Fitzgerald’s CF Acquisition Corp VIII. 28.10.25 Trump Media & Technology Group to launch
Kazakhstan launched a state-backed crypto reserve, Alem Crypto Fund, partnering with Binance Kazakhstan and starting with an investment in $BNB. SWIFT is building a blockchain ledger with 30+ banks using Consensys. Polish lawmakers passed a Crypto-Asset Market Act, aligning rules with the EU’s MiCAR. Vitalik Buterin opposes EU’s
Uniswap’s Unichain has boosted L2 volumes past $40B, but liquidity tells a different story. TVL has halved since July, exposing the limits of incentive-driven growth. Despite cheaper fees, users remain on Ethereum—where Uniswap continues to be one of the network’s largest revenue engines.
TON Strategy Company, formerly Verb Technology, has rebranded as a Toncoin treasury, holding $713M in TON and targeting over 5% of supply. By staking its holdings and adopting financial engineering akin to Strategy’s playbook, it aims to turn crypto reserves into shareholder returns
From $GOAT to $FART, memecoins show how hype burns fast and budgets vanish faster. Market caps in the tens of millions may look like real businesses, but behind the joke lies sunk marketing spend, fragile communities, and the math of attention that always runs out of breath
Jito’s BAM transforms MEV on Solana from a private auction into a transparent, programmable marketplace. While Ethereum introduced PBS, Solana may now be a step ahead—embedding MEV handling directly into the protocol with greater flexibility and developer access.