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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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Aug 08, 2022 Another Large Brazil Bank Goes Into Crypto
Mario Leao, Santander Brazil CEO.

The third largest privately owned bank in Brazil is about to open crypto world for its clients.

Observers
Aug 07, 2022 Damien Hirst Will Burn His Art in NFT Project
NFT chart

One of the richest artist in the UK, Damien Hirst, will burn thousands of his paintings at Newport Street Gallery in London this September…

Observers
Aug 07, 2022 IMF On Kenya CBDC Paper, Commends Caution
 Central Bank

IMF returned its comments on the Kenyan Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) discussion paper published in February 2022. In the Annex to…

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NFT   -   Aug 05, 2022 Web3 Streaming Platform Audius Hacked For $6M
audius

Thanks to the bug in the contract initialization code, the hacker succeeded in stealing 18 billion $AUDIO tokens, which at the time of the theft amounted to more than $6 million.

Alex Harutunian
Web3   -   Aug 05, 2022 Final Fantasy NFTs Are Coming to Enjin’s Polkadot-based Efinity Platform
Final Fantasy protagonist Cloud Strife as a phygital product. NFT toys

Square Enix’s Final Fantasy has teamed up with Enjin’s Polkadot-based Efinity platform to launch NFT collectibles.

Alex Harutunian
Ethereum   -   Aug 04, 2022 Lido’s Expansion on Ethereum Layer 2
low gas staking

Lido, a multi-chain liquid staking platform, announced the launch of stETH on Layer 2.

Alex Harutunian
Bridges and Interoperability   -   Aug 03, 2022 People Get Mad, Thanks To Nomad: $190 Million Bridge Exploit
Nomad Bridge hacked People get mad

More than $190 million in various tokens has vanished due to an exploit in the cross-chain bridge Nomad.

Alex Harutunian
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