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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
Coins and tokens   -   Nov 25, 2025 The Crypto Seesaw: One Move, Everyone Falls
The Crypto Seesaw: One Move, Everyone Falls

Triggered by a routine macro shock, crypto once again unraveled faster than any other market. Not because of sentiment alone, but because CEX risk engines, DEX liquidation incentives, and always-on leverage turn small moves into cascading stress.

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
Ethos reputations
Oracles   -   Feb 28, 2026 Reputation Is Not Static. It Can Be Shorted On Ethos

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
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Jul 14, 2022 Bitcoin Balance on Exchanges Drops, But Not Everywhere
 Bitcoin Balances on Exchanges

The number of coins stored on exchanges has declined substantially except for some exchanges which show decent growth.

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Regulation   -   Jul 13, 2022 EU Lawmakers Agreed On Requirements For Crypto-asset Transparency
The working group of EU lawmakers after the meeting

The AML/CFT regulations are now applicable to Crypto Asset Service Providers (CASP) that include crypto exchanges, crypto wallets and transfer services as well as crypto asset issuers

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Stablecoins   -   Jul 12, 2022 Sharp Growth Of The Old Luna Token
LUNC price chart

In the last week of June, the old Terra ecosystem token LUNC, rose sharply in price and reached its maximum market capitalization for the…

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Jul 12, 2022 Combining Traditional Monetary System And Crypto Technologies: BIS Annual Economic Report
 bis

BIS analytics has looked into the present state of the financial system and proposed a new one, which comprises of the most viable and…

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Blockchain   -   Jul 12, 2022 Gas prices are up. But not in Ethereum
Average gas price

Ethereum gas price is falling rapidly. Another record has been reached for the average gas price — 13 GWEI.

Alex Harutunian
Jul 12, 2022 $18.5M Worth Bored Ape and Mutant Ape NFTs Have Been ‘Stolen’

A user of Dune Analytics has counted the number of top-valued NFTs that have been marked stolen or suspicious and thus frozen on OpenSea…

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Jul 12, 2022 Singapore Based Crypto Exchange Bybit Expands to Argentina
Singapore Based Crypto Exchange Bybit Expands to Argentina

Despite the difficulties that most of the exchanges are suffering now, some are still trying to expand. Bybit, a Singapore-based cryptocurrency exchange, has announced it will be expanding its operations to Argentina.

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Jul 11, 2022 Binance Launches New Platform for VIP and Institutional Crypto Investors
Platform description. Source: binance.com

Binance announced the launch of “Binance Institutional,” a new platform for VIP and institutional crypto investors. The exchange said it…

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