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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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NFT   -   Oct 29, 2022 Apple's Nifty Policies
Screenshot of Apple IOS App Store

Apple has updated its AppStore terms and conditions. Among others, there are paragraphs about NFT and crypto exchanges. The future of NFTs on Apple devices is uncertain.

Alex Harutunian
Telegram   -   Oct 28, 2022 Telegram Launched Username Auction Marketplace
Telegram Launched Username Auction Marketplace

The popular messaging app Telegram, which has over 700 million users, launches its marketplace for auctioning unique usernames for social platforms on the TON blockchain.

Alex Harutunian
Update   -   Oct 28, 2022 UPD: OpenSea Revises OpenRarity Protocol

Recently OpenSea introduced a new rarity ranking protocol called OpenRarity.

Alex Harutunian
Update   -   Oct 28, 2022 UPD: OpenSea Sees its Marketshare Slip
UPD: OpenSea Sees its Marketshare Slip

On October 20, Binance Market Pulse report was released that showed a slow and steady change in NFT marketplace leadership.

Alex Harutunian
Chainalysis   -   Oct 28, 2022 Chainalysis Report. What is Happening with the Cryptocurrency Markets of Russia and Ukraine Since February 2022
The magnifier with the Chainalysis logo is aimed at cryptocurrencies.

Chainalysis has released a new report describing the study of the cryptocurrency market in Eastern Europe. The report pays special attention to the crypto markets of Ukraine and Russia, whose economies are experiencing serious difficulties, which is forcing users to show interest in digital assets.

Alex Harutunian
Celsius   -   Oct 28, 2022 Crypto-astrologer Promoted Celsius Shortly Before The Company's Bankruptcy
Crypto-astrologer Promoted Celsius Shortly Before The Company's Bankruptcy

Maren Altman was criticized on Twitter for advertising Celsius shortly before the company filed for bankruptcy in court.

Alex Harutunian
CBDC   -   Oct 27, 2022 Hong Kong CBDC System Prototype Aurum
Central Bank role and different CBDCs types correlation. Source: BIS report

The Bank for International Settlements Innovation Hub Hong Kong Centre and the Hong Kong Monetary Authority cooperated to create a two-tier CBDC system that mirrors the current Hong Kong currency system and features unusual CBDC-backed stablecoins.

Sasha Markevich
SEC   -   Oct 27, 2022 SEC Probing NFT Market. Yuga Labs Under Investigation
SEC Probing NFT Market. Yuga Labs Under Investigation

Yuga Labs, the creator of the blue chip NFT collection Bored Ape Yacht Club, is said to be one of companies under investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) as it probes the NFT market.

Alex Harutunian
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