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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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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
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.

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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

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

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

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.

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