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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
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
Gaming   -   Sep 13, 2025 The Promise and Reality of Blockchain Games
blockchain gamers

After years of development, blockchain games still capture only a sliver of the gaming industry. The promise of true asset ownership, stable economies, and transferability remains unmet. Recent trends suggest blockchain was more hype feature than genuine necessity

Alex Harutunian
The Crypto Seesaw: One Move, Everyone Falls
Coins and tokens   -   Nov 25, 2025 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
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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
Adoption   -   Oct 18, 2022 Plan B: Pay Crypto for Your Big Mac in Lugano
McDonalds Lugano Switzerland. Source: Wikimedia

The global fast food chain McDonald’s has started accepting BTC and USDT in the Swiss town of Lugano which aims to become a “European Bitcoin Capital”.

Sasha Markevich
Exchanges   -   Oct 18, 2022 Huobi Global Sold
Logos of Huobi Global and About Capital Management HK

Crypto exchange Huobi Global founder Leon Li sold his 60% share in the company to About Capital Management HK.

Sasha Markevich
Litigation   -   Oct 18, 2022 Celsius. Is Withdrawal Blocked for Everyone? Traditional Judicial Practice Does Not Cope with Crypto
Celsius logo on the background of the courtroom.

Netizens points out that Alex Mashinsky withdraws funds from his wallets while Celsius users are unable to move their funds due to blocking. All this is happening during the trial, as a result of which personal data and transactions of Celsius users have become publicly available.

Alex Harutunian
SEGA   -   Oct 18, 2022 SEGA Partners with Double Jump. Tokyo to Create Three Kingdoms Blockchain Game
SEGA partners with double jump.tokyo and Oasys to create a new blockchain game

Recently, the game developer ’double jump.tokyo’, announced its partnership with SEGA and Oasys blockchain as part of plans to create a new blockchain game based on SEGA’s Japanese series – Sangokushi Taisen (Three Kingdoms).

Alex Harutunian
Update   -   Oct 18, 2022 UPD: OpenSea to Allow Users to Submit Bulk NFT Listings and Purchases

On October 5, OpenSea NFT marketplace announced on Twitter that it is now officially allowing users to list and purchase up to 30 digital collectible items in a single flow.

Alex Harutunian
Stablecoins   -   Oct 17, 2022 Tether. The Goal Has Been Achieved
Coins with the Tether logo

Tether has completely gotten rid of commercial papers, replacing them with U.S. Treasury Bills (T-Bills).

Alex Harutunian
Adoption   -   Oct 17, 2022 Malaysia Will Have Its Own National Blockchain System
Malaysia. Source: tagesschau.de

MYEG's Zetrix Blockchain announced that they will develop and operate the national layer 1 public blockchain as a part of the Malaysia Blockchain Infrastructure. Two companies, MYEG, a concessionaire for the Malaysia Electronic-Government ("E-Government") MSC Flagship Application, and MIMOS Technology Solutions, focused on generating technology solutions

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