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Tokenization   -   Oct 09, 2026 Tokenization for Everything: Where Did We Actually Get?
Tokenization for Everything: Where Did We Actually Get?

Tokenization was supposed to disrupt global capital markets, but it ended in an unexpected compromise: permissionless rails carrying permissioned finance. A deep dive into SEC equity rules, European wholesale settlement, and why crypto’s plumbing is being absorbed to reinforce legacy finance.

Alex Harutunian
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
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
Tokenization for Everything: Where Did We Actually Get?
Tokenization   -   Oct 09, 2026 Tokenization for Everything: Where Did We Actually Get?

Tokenization was supposed to disrupt global capital markets, but it ended in an unexpected compromise: permissionless rails carrying permissioned finance. A deep dive into SEC equity rules, European wholesale settlement, and why crypto’s plumbing is being absorbed to reinforce legacy finance.

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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