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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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NFT   -   Oct 25, 2022 CNN Abandons its NFT Project, Causing Rug Pull Accusations
CNN Abandons its NFT Project, Causing Rug Pull Accusations

CNN has given up on Vault, the company's NFT marketplace, after just one year, prompting some community members to accuse the platform of orchestrating a “rug pull.”

Alex Harutunian
Ripple   -   Oct 23, 2022 Director of Engineering leaves Ripple
Nik Bougalis (far left) with Ripple team at Consensus 2017

Director of Engineering at Ripple, Nik Bougalis, is leaving the company after 10 years. Ripple’s new VP of Engineering is refreshing the technical leadership at the company and moving development to Toronto.

Alex Harutunian
Meta   -   Oct 23, 2022 Meta Unveiled a $1,500 Quest Pro Headset
Meta Unveiled a $1,500 Quest Pro Headset

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently announced the release of his company’s newest virtual reality headset, the Meta Quest Pro, that will cost $1,500 and start shipping on October 25.

Alex Harutunian
Sanctions   -   Oct 21, 2022 Is There Decentralisation for Russians? New Crypto Sanctions from the EU.
Is There Decentralisation for Russians? New Crypto Sanctions from the EU.

The conflict between Ukraine and Russia has led to multiple holistic sanctions from the Western world. Its impact on the Russian economy cannot be fully estimated yet, but any regular citizen can easily see how this has changed their lives.

Sasha Markevich
Bitcoin   -   Oct 21, 2022 Lost & Found Bitcoin Version 0.1 Codebase
Lost & Found Bitcoin Version 0.1 Codebase. Part oа еру code and Rosetta Stone collage.

Recently a bitcoin supporter named Jim Blasko claimed that he discovered the oldest upload of Bitcoin’s version 0.1 codebase.

Sasha Markevich
Investigation   -   Oct 21, 2022 Chainalysis Reactor. Is the Anonymity of Cryptocurrencies Under Threat?
Chainalysis Reactor. Is the Anonymity of Cryptocurrencies Under Threat?

Chainalysis Reactor – the creation of Chainalysis – helps the governments to track cryptocurrency transactions and their owners. How can this affect the anonymity of cryptocurrencies?

Alex Harutunian
Exchanges   -   Oct 21, 2022 Binance Lost Money and Sacrificed Decentralization
binance

The cross-chain exploit of the BSC Token Hub bridge led to the creation of extra BNB. Binance asked the validators to shut down the BNB Smart Chain (BSC). After the BSC exploit, a hard-fork was performed.

Alex Harutunian
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