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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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May 31, 2022 Digital Karma Coming after You, Buterin’s Vision
social recovery

The other day Vitalik Buterin and two other researchers, E. Glen Weyl and Puja Ohlhaver, published a huge article about the concept of Decentralized Society — DeSoc — introducing some analogue of “digital karma” or “social rating”, which they call Souls and Soulbound Tokens.

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Stablecoins   -   May 31, 2022 New Forensic Checks Of The Terraform Labs Team And The Fall Of Terra 2.0
LUNA/USD chart

The South Korean prosecutor’s office calls on all employees of the Terraform Labs cryptocurrency platform to give evidence, while Terra 2.0…

Alex Harutunian
Exchanges   -   May 31, 2022 Fortune smiled upon Coinbase
Coinbase revenue and revenue to volume chart.

Coinbase became the first crypto company to enter the Fortune 500 list.

Sasha Markevich
May 30, 2022 Will Bitcoin ever Become a Part of Monetary System..?

Andreas Rahmatian, Professor of commercial law at the University of Glasgow, in his column for Euronews shared an opinion that…

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Stablecoins   -   May 30, 2022 The New Rebirth of Terra

The Terra team shared three major changes to the previously published Terra revival and redistribution plan and launched a new network.

Alex Harutunian
May 30, 2022 Crypto Should Meet Same Norms as Regular Finance, G7 Says

Finance ministers want to see financial stability and money-laundering standards in effect soon, citing recent market turmoil.

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CBDC   -   May 30, 2022 US Department of Commerce Seeks Public Comments on the Country's Crypto Plan

US DOC request for public comments is in response to President Biden’s executive order in March asking for agencies to coordinate their approach to the country's digital asset plan

Alex Harutunian
May 30, 2022 NY Bitcoin Miners Start to Give Up on State Amid Regulatory Uncertainty
Didar Bekbauov

New York was once a magnet for miners, but environmental concerns are weighing on the industry.

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