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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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Adoption   -   Oct 12, 2022 The Growth of the Crypto Industry in Africa
The Growth of the Crypto Industry in Africa

In Sub-Saharan African countries, as the Chainalysis team report showed, the volume of cryptocurrency transactions is growing. A rise in popularity of the Peer-to-peer (P2P) method is also seen. Bank of Namibia (BON), in turn, has approved virtual assets as a payment.

Alex Harutunian
Stablecoins   -   Oct 12, 2022 LUNC is Strengthening Its Position Despite the Increasingly Obvious Problems With the Law Among the Creators of Terra
LUNC logo.

Despite Do Kwon's problems with the law, users believe in LUNC, increasing its cost. The belief in a bright future is also reinforced by Binance, which burns tokens.

Alex Harutunian
Regulation   -   Oct 12, 2022 The US House of Representatives is Drafting a Law to Ban Stablecoins Similar to the Infamous UST.
UST coin and the "Banned" seal.

According to Bloomberg sources, the House of Representatives is actively developing a law aimed at a two-year ban on algorithmic stablecoins like TerraUSD. In the text of the law, the term "endogenously collateralized stablecoins" was introduced for such coins.

Alex Harutunian
Coins and tokens   -   Oct 11, 2022 Earn $1 Million and Lose It in an Hour
Earn $1 Million and Lose It in an Hour

MEV bot earned more than $1 million on successful arbitrage. But, almost an hour later, a hacker stole all the funds.

Alex Harutunian
Web3   -   Oct 11, 2022 Walmart on Roblox as a Test for the Metaverse
Walmart on Roblox as a Test for the Metaverse

At the end of 2021 the US retailer Walmart filed several trademark applications that indicated its intention to offer users a virtual currency and NFTs. Recently it has launched two online game worlds in Roblox, a popular Web2 gaming platform.

Alex Harutunian
SEC   -   Oct 10, 2022 Kim Kardashian Pays the $1.26 Million SEC Fine
Kim Kardashian pays the SEC fine for touting crypto assets. Source

Reality TV star Kim Kardashian agreed to pay a $1.26 million SEC fine for touting a crypto asset, EthereumMax, on Instagram.

Alex Harutunian
Regulation   -   Oct 09, 2022 US Treasury, White House Staff Respond to POTUS Call for Crypto Plan
Secretary Yelen, Dr. Alondra Nelson on a call regarding President Biden Executive order on digital assets and crypto

President Biden issued executive order on digital assets tasking federal agencies to coordinate their work on developing a framework. US Treasury, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy presented their response reports in a joint call.

Alex Harutunian
Web3   -   Oct 09, 2022 How NFT Can Be a Security
How NFT Can Be a Security

NFT and DeFi dominated the second wave of crypto market’s expansion after Initial Coin Offerings (ICO) of 2017. But what are the differences and similarities of these two markets from the regulatory point of view?

Alex Harutunian
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