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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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Exchanges   -   Aug 26, 2022 Go Crypto, Brazil, Go
Go Crypto, Brazil, Go

BTG Pactual, the sixth largest banking institution in Brazil and the largest investment bank in Latam, and has launched a crypto trading platform Mynt. Other Brazilian fintech giants are keeping pace.

Sasha Markevich
Aug 25, 2022 UPD: On August 12 Axie Infinity announced that they are completely removing token rewards from its…

UPD: On August 12 Axie Infinity announced that they are completely removing token rewards from its classic game mode to attract users to a new game mode called Axie Infinity Origin. It means that users will not be able to mint SLPs (Smooth Love Potion tokens) in the classic version.

Observers
CBDC   -   Aug 25, 2022 The Roadmap for Adoption of CBDC in Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe
The Roadmap for Adoption of CBDC in Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe

Zimbabwean central bank, RBZ sketches a plan for development of its CBDC, hires tech contractors.

Observers
Ethereum   -   Aug 24, 2022 The Merge. Soon. Date confirmed
 Ethereum

The final test merge was performed on the Goerli network. Developers are eliminating a potentially dangerous malfunction before The Merge…

Alex Harutunian
Aug 23, 2022 Revolut Gets The First Approval to Offer Crypto Services In Europe
revolut

A Cypriote branch of the UK-based fintech bank Revolut received its first approval to provide crypto asset services, amongst which include…

Observers
Aug 23, 2022 Crypto and CBDC panel discussion at G20 ministers forum in Indonesia
G20 finance minister and central bank governor meeting, Bali Indonesia. Source: G20 website

The G20 ministers forum panel on CBDC and crypto hosted Australian and Swiss Central bank governors, the Head of Hong Kong Monetary…

Observers
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
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