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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   -   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
Aug 19, 2022 Iran Announces Its First International Crypto Payment. U.S. Sanctions Losing Power?
Alireza Peymanpak

The previous week was marked by an exceptional event for cryptocurrency on a national level: Deputy Minister of Industry, Mining and Trade…

Observers
Aug 19, 2022 UPD: To date some moves from OpenSea that prove that it is in fact centralised.

UPD: To date some moves from OpenSea that prove that it is in fact centralised. OpenSea has recently updated its stolen NFT policy that has caused quite a backlash. Previously they would block the stolen items from being bought, sold, or transferred on its platform during an investigation, now they

Observers
Aug 19, 2022 Crypto Regulations. SEC POV
Gary Gensler, SEC Chair

SEC Chair Gary Gensler expresses readiness to work with crypto companies to develop industry-specific compliance rules and use SEC powers…

Observers
Aug 19, 2022 El Salvador’s Government Firmly Adheres to Bitcoin Development in the Country
El Salvador’s Finance Minister Alejandro Zelaya

A couple of weeks ago, El Salvador’s finance minister Alejandro Zelaya shared in an interview with Bloomberg his point of view (and some…

Observers
Stablecoins   -   Aug 18, 2022 The Pound is Now Stable Too

Blackfridge has launched a stablecoin pegged to British pound. And this is the first stablecoin of its kind.

Alex Harutunian
Bridges and Interoperability   -   Aug 18, 2022 Lazarus Vainly Attacked deBridge

North Korean group of hackers, Lazarus, attacked deBridge. The human factor has become a vulnerability again.

Alex Harutunian
Regulation   -   Aug 17, 2022 Iran as a Guilty Pleasure for the Exchanges

Kraken can be under federal investigation for potential violation of U.S. sanctions against Iran, the New York Times reported. And they’re…

Sasha Markevich
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