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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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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
Update   -   Oct 21, 2022 UPD: StepN Denies Layoffs, but Is Still Going through a Transitional Period

In the related article we wrote that despite the downturn and the bear market, StepN has a lot in the pipeline, and may see a bright future when the bear market is over. However, some disturbing news about the company has spread in the media.

Alex Harutunian
Update   -   Oct 21, 2022 UPD: Damien Hirst Finally Burnt His Art for NFT Project

The wealthiest living artist in the UK, Damien Hirst, set fire to millions of dollars worth of his own artworks as part of his NFT project The Currency, which examines the value of digital art vs physical art.

Alex Harutunian
Adoption   -   Oct 21, 2022 Mastercard Invites Traditional Banks to Cryptocurrency Trading
Source: forbes.com

Mastercard, one of the biggest payment providers, introduced Crypto Source a software that enables financial institutions to offer cryptocurrency trading and services to their clients. To launch the new program, Mastercard has teamed up with Paxos, a leading regulated blockchain infrastructure platform. The partnership aims to provide Paxos crypto-asset trading

Observers
Adoption   -   Oct 21, 2022 Corporations Keep Pilling Into Crypto
Source: bitcourier.co.uk

This was a productive month for institutional crypto custody. We have seen a steady flow of news announcements about another financial giant launching crypto services for their clients. Three world-leading banks have started to provide their customers with crypto services.

Observers
Economy   -   Oct 20, 2022 Liz Truss stands down as PM following a much criticized economic plan
Liz Truss announces her resignation

British Prime Minister Liz Truss resigned after her questionable and already reversed economic plan sent the pound plunging and put her government into chaos.

Alex Harutunian
CBDC   -   Oct 20, 2022 SWIFT Experiments With CBDC. Model 2
SWIFT blueprint report on CBDC with legacy security token device

SWIFT completes another phase of its CBDC trials. The focus is on cross-border settlements between different CBDCs. The conclusion so far is that their existing systems can handle it.

Alex Harutunian
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