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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
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
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
Ethos reputations
Oracles   -   Feb 28, 2026 Reputation Is Not Static. It Can Be Shorted On Ethos

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
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Exchanges   -   Sep 18, 2022 Conversion of USDC to BUSD. Good or Bad?
Conversion of USDC to BUSD. Good or Bad?

Binance announced that from September 29, USDC, USDP and TUSD stablecoins balances on their platform will be automatically converted into…

Alex Harutunian
Sep 18, 2022 Andreessen Horowitz Introduces ‘Can’t Be Evil’ License to Fix NFT Copyright Issues
Andreessen Horowitz VC company is trying to help regulate NFT licensing

Venture capital company Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) recently introduced a series of “Can’t Be Evil” licences that let creators grant NFT…

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Sep 15, 2022 Digital-Assets Index by CoinDesk: First out of Nine
Digital-Assets Index by CoinDesk: First out of Nine

CoinDesk published a new market index based on the company’s classification standard DACS. The index is to become an analogue of S&P500 in the crypto industry.

Sasha Markevich
Sep 15, 2022 UPD: Chainalysis, a crypto analytics company, announced in a blog post on September 8 that it has…

Chainalysis, a crypto analytics company, announced in a blog post on September 8 that it has helped the US government recover around $30 million stolen from a play-to-earn crypto game Axie Infinity earlier this year. Erin Plante, senior director of investigations at Chainalysis, said in the post that this event

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Metrics and Signals   -   Sep 14, 2022 Why We Are Not Afraid Of Crypto Bear Market
Why We Are Not Afraid Of Crypto Bear Market

This year has been a wash with bear crypto market cautions and alerts, with prices of the most popular cryptocurrencies crashing dramatically. However, the Crypto market is not just about the price of Bitcoin, there are way more significant events to monitor.

Observers
Sep 14, 2022 New Trading Pairs for USDС on the Bybit
New Trading Pairs for USDС on the Bybit

The Bybit crypto exchange has entered into cooperation with the Circle Internet Financial company, which owns the USDC stablecoin. The…

Observers
Sep 14, 2022 Paying in Cryptocurrency with Your iPhone
Paying in Cryptocurrency with Your iPhone

In February 2022, Apple introduced the Tap to Pay feature, which allows you to use the iPhone as a payment terminal, also it can be used to…

Observers
Sep 13, 2022 Upbit Listing Procedure and What It Has to Do with DAXA
Upbit Listing Procedure and What It Has to Do with DAXA

After the Terra collapse, South Korean authorities have to act carefully and put more and more pressure on exchanges. Exchanges proactively…

Sasha Markevich
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