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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   -   Jul 24, 2022 For the First Time Circle Shared with the Community A Breakdown of USDC Reserves

On June 30, Circle provided a financial report according to which USDC reserves amounted to $55.7 billion. Of these, $42.12 billion were US…

Alex Harutunian
Exchanges   -   Jul 24, 2022 Spanish Exchange Bit2Me to Conquer the World
Bit2Me logo. Source: bit2me.com

Bit2Me, the largest Spanish exchange, has been doing great lately despite the current crypto market downturn.

Observers
Stablecoins   -   Jul 22, 2022 Tether and Dai, The Work of Stablecoins During the General Crisis
Cryptocurrency Prices

Stablecoin Tether continues to get rid of commercial securities, following its plan. And Maker DAO redistributes the reserves of the stable…

Alex Harutunian
Economy   -   Jul 22, 2022 Inflation and BTC. Cause-and-Effect Relationships.

During the last two years the US government has printed a substantial amount of dollars to help the economy during the pandemic and the value of BTC soared. Now the FED is trying to tame growing inflation by raising interest rates and the value of BTC is falling. How is this connected?

Sasha Markevich
Jul 22, 2022 A Series of Layoffs in the Industry Amid Crypto Winter
NFT marketplaces rating.

OpenSea is terminating 20% of its employees. The job cuts could be the consequences from the issues OpenSea faced, like the Customer.io…

Observers
Blockchain   -   Jul 21, 2022 Cosmosification of Ethereum
New DApps per Month chart

Reflections about the future of Ethereum based on the Meher Roy thread.

Alex Harutunian
Bridges and Interoperability   -   Jul 21, 2022 Polygon and Fantom Blockchain Networks Attacked

On Friday, July 1st, blockchain networks Polygon and Fantom were subjected to a DNS attack. No information about the stolen funds has been released yet.

Alex Harutunian
Jul 21, 2022 How a Fake LinkedIn Job Offer Allowed Theft from Axie Infinity
Axie Infinity

The popular P2E crypto game Axie Infinity was reportedly hacked using a complex phishing scheme involving fake LinkedIn job offers.

Observers
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