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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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Stablecoins   -   Aug 16, 2022 To Die and Be Resurrected by the First Birthday. Beanstalk restarted

On Saturday, August 6, the Beanstalk Farm Stablecoin Protocol, which was hacked in April of this year, was restarted for its first…

Alex Harutunian
Aug 16, 2022 Is OpenSea Becoming Centralised?
A now-deleted tweet from Todd Kramer about the incident.

At the end of December 2021, the owner of New York’s Ross+Kramer Art Gallery, Todd Kramer, had 15 BAYC and MAYC NFTs worth more than $2.2…

Observers
Aug 16, 2022 UPD: The Axie Infinity hack story has just become even more intriguing.

UPD: The Axie Infinity hack story has just become even more intriguing. The crypto scene Youtube observer Asobs was tipped off about a wallet that had moved 48,838 AXS (around $3 million) tokens from Ronin network to Binance exchange after the hack, but not before the game's

Observers
Aug 16, 2022 BlackRock Opens Up Bitcoin Trading For Its Clients Through Coinbase’s Exchange
BlackRock and Coinbase.

BlackRock, an American international investment corporation and the world’s largest asset manager announced the signing of a partnership…

Observers
Aug 15, 2022 Muse the First to Release the Entire Album as an NFT
Screenshot of the new album webpage. Muse

“Will of the People” an album by Muse, will be the first chart-eligible and entirely NFT album released on the Polygon-based Serenade…

Observers
Adoption   -   Aug 15, 2022 The Best for Last: Virginia Pension Fund Invests in Crypto

Fairfax County, Va.’s pension fund, the Fairfax County Retirement Systems was allowed to invest $70 million across two crypto yield farming…

Sasha Markevich
Adoption Tools   -   Aug 13, 2022 Can Blockchain Be Banned? Tornado Cash Sanctions Mark The First Battle
Tornado website screenshot, April 2022. Source: Wayback Machine

U.S. Treasury Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) has sanctioned the largest Ethereum mixer, Tornado Cash. Major financial and infrastructure service providers complied, putting self-sufficient DeFi under the question.

Observers
China   -   Aug 11, 2022 China Social Credit System Quickly Explained
Living in a Social Credit System

I recently came across a funny video about living in a social credit system, and decided to check up on China — the country where the dystopian “Black Mirror” reality is about to come true.

Alex Harutunian
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