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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   -   Sep 28, 2022 Japanese Companies Will Be Able To Pay Salaries Via Apps
PayPay use case. Source: asia.nikkei.com

Just about two weeks ago the Labour Policy Council discussed paying digital salaries to workers instead of traditional cash through bank accounts. Despite the fact that Japanese law permits only cash payments for salaries, businesses are allowed to use accounts at financial institution as recipients of the salary. Now that

Observers
Web3   -   Sep 28, 2022 Urbit Back Again?
Urbit Assembly in Miami. Source: Twitter

Long time no see: Urbit, an ambitious project of “fixing” the internet that started in 2013 - a decade ago! - could be coming back to the spotlight.

Sasha Markevich
Stablecoins   -   Sep 27, 2022 Details of the Upcoming Launch of Curve's Own Stablecoin and What the Community Suggests
Source: TheNewsCrypto

The Curve developers have posted a JavaScript library on the web, which should help when launching their own stable coin, the Curve stable coin - crvUSD.

Alex Harutunian
IPO/ICO   -   Sep 27, 2022 Bitcoin Depot Goes Public
Bitcoin Depot Goes Public via merge with SPAC GSR II Meteora

Bitcoin Depot, a crypto ATM company confirmed its plan to go public.

Sasha Markevich
CBDC   -   Sep 27, 2022 Amazon is in a Group Selected by European Central Bank to Design the Digital Euro
Digital Euro

The European Central Bank chose five entities, including US internet behemoth Amazon, to prototype the frontend of digital euro project. The work will not be remunerated.

Alex Harutunian
CBDC   -   Sep 27, 2022 Nigerian fintech Flutterwave receives Central Bank's key payment license, promotes eNaira
Flutterwave logo with Nigerian National Bank background

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has granted Flutterwave, a switching and processing license for electronic payments, as the firm seeks to extend its services across the African country. Flutterwave made a significant effort to streamline adoption of eNaira

Alex Harutunian
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
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