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Jul 08, 2025 From Coins to QR: The Changing Face of Money
QR in payments and new money

QR codes have emerged as a global interface for digital payments, gaining ground from Asia to the U.S. for their simplicity, low cost, and security. As countries move toward unified standards, the shape of money is shifting—from coins and cards to scannable squares.

Alex Harutunian
DEX   -   Jul 08, 2025 Crypto Exchages' Changing Landscape
DEX CEX CLOB

Decentralized exchanges just hit a record high, with DEX-to-CEX spot volumes reaching parity for the first time. The middle-tier altcoin sector, once central to CEX activity, is losing ground. Meanwhile, a new generation of CLOB-based DEXs is preparing to reshape the landscape of crypto trading.

Alexander Mardar
Adoption   -   Jul 06, 2025 GBBC Maps 101 Real-World Blockchain Use Cases for 2025
GBBC Maps 101 Real-World Blockchain Use Cases for 2025

The GBBC’s 2025 Handbook captures a new phase of blockchain adoption: from renegade roots to institutional alignment. With compliant infrastructure and regulated tokenization, blockchain is no longer an outsider—it’s becoming the backbone.

Alex Harutunian
Staking   -   Jul 04, 2025 EigenLayer Expands Its Product Offering with EigenCloud
EigenLayer Expands Its Product Offering with EigenCloud

EigenLayer has launched EigenCloud, a decentralized platform combining off-chain compute, verification, and data availability. Built on its restaking model, EigenCloud enables developers to build trust-minimized apps using services like EigenCompute, EigenVerify, and EigenDA.

Alexander Mardar
L1   -   Jun 18, 2025 Bitcoin's Heavy Load: The OP_RETURN Debate Rolls On
Bitcoin's Heavy Load: The OP_RETURN Debate Rolls On

A controversial change in Bitcoin Core will remove relay limits on the OP_RETURN field, allowing larger data payloads to spread across the network. Critics fear spam and bloat; supporters say it's already happening—and making it visible will improve fee markets and mempool consistency.

Alexander Mardar
QR in payments and new money
Jul 08, 2025 From Coins to QR: The Changing Face of Money

QR codes have emerged as a global interface for digital payments, gaining ground from Asia to the U.S. for their simplicity, low cost, and security. As countries move toward unified standards, the shape of money is shifting—from coins and cards to scannable squares.

Alex Harutunian
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Web3   -   Sep 26, 2022 What Happened to NFTs After the Merge?
Someone managed to mint NFT on the last Ethereum PoW block, and now it’s on Opensea

On September 15, the Merge that many were waiting for, finally happened. Now that Ethereum’s environmental footprint is the lowest ever, the crypto world has decided to celebrate with a new batch of eco-friendly NFTs.

Alex Harutunian
Web3   -   Sep 25, 2022 Celebrities in the Crypto Club: Oldies and Newbies
Celebrities in the Crypto Club: Oldies and Newbies

Celebrities enter the world of crypto and NFTs for 2 main purposes: sales and credibility for the product, and publicity and money for the celebrity. Let’s check up on artists we wrote about earlier this year, and look at some new celebrity endorsements.

Alex Harutunian
SWIFT   -   Sep 24, 2022 SWIFT Goes Into Blockchain
SWIFT Goes Into Blockchain

SWIFT, the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication explores blockchain tech to improve the speed and quality of data in operating processes.

Observers
Regulation   -   Sep 24, 2022 EU Member States Decide on the Location of the Union Wide AML Regulator
EU Member States Decide on the Location of the Union Wide AML Regulator

The European Union is getting closer to the issue of creating a completely new AML regulator that will directly supervise the financial institutions of member states. Crypto is included. It's hard to say exactly when, but the European Union will have a new regulator to oversee anti-money laundering

Observers
Adoption   -   Sep 24, 2022 El Salvador’s President Is Up For A New Presidential Campaign
El Salvador’s President Is Up For A New Presidential Campaign

This month El Salvador marked a year since its government adopted Bitcoin as a legal tender. While many try to evaluate some intermediate results of this step, El Salvador’s president might get ready for re-election despite the constitution’s limits. According to El Salvador’s constitution, the president of

Observers
Web3   -   Sep 23, 2022 Blockchain Approved Vine
Blockchain Approved Vine

Cardano Foundation will create a solution on the Cardano blockchain to ensure the quality and authenticity of Georgian wines. Cardano Foundation is going to collaborate with Georgia's National Wine Agency, the Bolnisi Winemakers Association and Scantrust to "develop a creative, cost-effective, and flexible certification and traceability system,

Sasha Markevich
Blockchain   -   Sep 21, 2022 Vasil Hard Fork. Technical Overview
Vasil Hard Fork. Technical Overview

Cardano is one of the biggest cryptocurrencies by both market capitalization and following, having been introduced to the crypto community in 2018. Since its genesis, Cardano has undergone numerous upgrades through hard forks on its blockchain.

Observers
L2   -   Sep 20, 2022 Google Could Team Up with Sky Mavis to Prevent Another Ronin Hack
Google Could Team Up with Sky Mavis to Prevent Another Ronin Hack

Back in March, the Ronin network was breached, causing losses estimated above $600 million. At the time of the event, Sky Mavis only had 9 validator nodes; now, they have 18, including Google Cloud, to prevent another incident like this.

Alex Harutunian
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