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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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Exchanges   -   Oct 25, 2022 BitMEX wants to start from scratch in Switzerland
The landscape of Swizerland. Source: baamboozle.com

The BitMEX cryptocurrency exchange plans to be revived in a new guise in Switzerland after being prosecuted in the United States.

Alex Harutunian
Blockchain   -   Oct 25, 2022 Crypto Oasis Ecosystem Report: UAE Houses Almost 1.5K Active Web3 Organisations
Crypto Oasis Ecosystem Report cover

According to the Crypto Oasis Ecosystem Report there are more than 1,400 active Web3 organisations now operating in the UAE, with a total of over 23,000 Metaverse projects.

Sasha Markevich
Web3   -   Oct 25, 2022 Google Partners with Coinbase to Let Cloud Customers Pay in Crypto in 2023
Coinbase partners with Google Cloud. Source: Coinbase

Google and Coinbase have teamed up to let some Google Cloud customers pay in crypto. In turn, Coinbase will use Google Cloud’s compute platform and fibre-optic network to process blockchain data and enhance the global reach of its crypto services.

Alex Harutunian
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
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