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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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Stablecoins   -   Aug 23, 2022 Liquidity Pool Exploit Led to Acala USD Depeg
a USD price chart. Source: Coinmarketcap

Due to the exploit in Acala’s liquidity pool about $3 billion was lost. The aUSD stablecoin lost its peg. Later, almost all the funds were returned in a controversial way.

Alex Harutunian
Regulation   -   Aug 23, 2022 Philippines Pauses Licensing VASP
Philippines Pauses Licensing VASP

Although crypto is extremely popular in the Philippines, the central bank, Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP), announced that they won’t…

Sasha Markevich
Stablecoins   -   Aug 23, 2022 A New Stablecoin Bridge from Interlay
The principle of operation of InterBTC. Source: Interlay

Interlay has launched the interBTC (iBTC) on Polkadot. InterBTC, according to the developers, is an asset secured by 1 to 1 bitcoin with a…

Alex Harutunian
Stablecoins   -   Aug 23, 2022 How Can Tornado Cash Problems Affect the DAI Stablecoin?
 DAI market capitalization chart. Source: CoinMarketCap

Decentralized stablecoin had added a stability support with centralized USDC reserve. After Tornado Cash ban this reserve can become a source of problems by itself.

Observers
CBDC   -   Aug 19, 2022 Digital Ruble: CBR Outlook

The Central Bank of Russia (CBR) issued a paper on its monetary policy goals and priorities for the 2023–2025 period. Digital Ruble is…

Sasha Markevich
Adoption   -   Aug 19, 2022 Buenos Aires Addresses Blockchain
ETH Latam

Buenos Aires considers itself to be a crypto city and includes cryptocurrency and blockchain projects as part of its development and growth…

Observers
CBDC   -   Aug 19, 2022 The Central Bank of Nigeria has Unveiled New Plans to Strengthen the Use of eNaira
eNaira application screenshots. Source: enaira.gov.ng

The Central Bank of Nigeria announced the relaunch of its CBDC, eNaira, in an effort to increase its use which is low now according to…

Observers
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