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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
Coins and tokens   -   Nov 25, 2025 The Crypto Seesaw: One Move, Everyone Falls
The Crypto Seesaw: One Move, Everyone Falls

Triggered by a routine macro shock, crypto once again unraveled faster than any other market. Not because of sentiment alone, but because CEX risk engines, DEX liquidation incentives, and always-on leverage turn small moves into cascading stress.

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
Ethos reputations
Oracles   -   Feb 28, 2026 Reputation Is Not Static. It Can Be Shorted On Ethos

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
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Stablecoins   -   Nov 08, 2022 Huobi and HUSD, What's New?
A phone with the Huobi logo and graph on the screen.

At the end of October, Huobi announced the exclusion of the HUSD stablecoin from its listing, after which the stablecoin quickly began to lose its peg to the dollar. The exchange's headquarters will also be relocated to the Bahamas.

Alex Harutunian
Conference   -   Nov 08, 2022 Web Summit 2022 Highlights
Web Summit 2022 Main Stage. Source: Twitter

Welcome to Web Summit Lisbon 2022, one of the world’s leading tech conferences, which brings together the most important personalities from the tech world! Here is our overview of the agenda.

Sasha Markevich
Blockchain   -   Nov 04, 2022 Astar Japan Labs Ecosystem and Collaborations
Astar Network Banner

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
Stablecoins   -   Nov 03, 2022 Tether Announced the Launch of Pear Credit
Tether Announced the Launch of Pear Credit

Together with Holepunch and Synonym, Tether will launch a P2P сredit system, Pear Credit, in 2023.

Alex Harutunian
Regulation   -   Nov 02, 2022 Hong Kong Plans To Stay Hub, Now For Crypto
Hong Kong and crypto. Source: blockchain.news

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.

Observers
Update   -   Nov 02, 2022 UPD: Celsius petition for $2.96 million employee fund payment rejected

As 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 Harutunian
Update   -   Nov 02, 2022 UPD: Do Kwon is Due to Appear Before a Singapore Court

As 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
Stablecoins   -   Nov 02, 2022 USDC Ad in the Economist
USDC Circle ad in Economist issue of 29.10.2022

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
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