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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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Investments   -   Oct 13, 2022 Dumb Money - A Movie About GameStop Reddit Saga Coming

Based on Ben Mezrich’s book, The Antisocial Network, the movie will be about the investing flash mob on Reddit that increased the price of a random company and made WallStreet speculators lose $26 billion.

Observers
Bitcoin   -   Oct 12, 2022 Valkyrie Is Closing One Of Three Bitcoin ETFs

Valkyrie Funds LLC, a leading fund manager focused on digital assets, announced plans to liquidate one of its three exchange traded funds (ETFs) on 31st of October. The fund named "Balance Sheet Opportunities" included, among others, Tesla, Coinbase and Blackrock stock. The other two funds, focused on Bitcoin

Alex Harutunian
Exchanges   -   Oct 12, 2022 BlackRock Continues Its Journey to Crypto Industry
BlackRock. Source: coindesk.com

BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager based in the US, launched an exchange traded fund iShares Blockchain Technology UCITS for EU customers. BlackRock was founded in 1988 and has grown to $82 billion market capitalization. The company was widely criticized for its close relations with the Fed during

Observers
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
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