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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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Coins and tokens   -   Jan 23, 2025 Who Bought The Bitcoin Dip?
Bitcoin dip

Bitcoin’s performance before Trump's inauguration was disappointing. Most traders shied away from making more purchases, but a few others went all in—who were they?

Eva Senzaj Pauram
Hacks, Bugs and Scams   -   Jan 23, 2025 Rug Pull Rocks Crypto Community with Cuban Memecoins
Cuban memecoins

A series of rapid-fire memecoin launches linked to the Cuban government end in a dramatic $30 million rug pull, leaving investors furious. Next day another "Cuban coin", this time related to Mark Cuban's meme coin announcement sparked meme coin investors' interest.

Rebecca Denton
Blockchain   -   Jan 22, 2025 Solana Breaks Records Amid Trump’s Memecoins Mania
Solana Jupiter and Raydium after Trump meme coin

Solana’s DEXes hit record trading volumes as the network faces challenges with transaction failures.

Alexander Mardar
Coins and tokens   -   Jan 22, 2025 Legal Woes For Musk's Government Efficiency Department
DOGE Elon Musk Department of Government Efficiency Website

Multiple lawsuits target the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), led by Elon Musk, for evading federal transparency guidelines. Meanwhile Doge coin logo appeared briefly on the newly launched landing page of the antibureaucracy agency.

Rebecca Denton
Ethereum   -   Jan 21, 2025 Wen Moon? Ethereum Community Demands New Leadership
Wen Moon? Ethereum Community Demands New Leadership

The weak price performance of ETH has led Ethereum users to more closely examine the Ethereum Foundation and its leadership, raising many questions.

Alexander Mardar
Coins and tokens   -   Jan 21, 2025 Trump’s Inauguration Crypto Mayhem Recap
Trump’s Inauguration Crypto Mayhem Recap

In the days leading up to Trump’s inauguration and on the big day itself, the crypto space moved at a frenetic pace. The volatility is far from over.

Eva Senzaj Pauram
Coins and tokens   -   Jan 20, 2025 Trump's World Liberty Financial Secures ENS Domain Names
Trump World Liberty Financial ENS domains

Are there yet more memecoins on the way?

Rebecca Denton
Newsletters   -   Jan 19, 2025 Sunday Review 19/01/2024
Sunday Review 19/01/2024

Happy Sunday, Observers! This was a week marked by several launches, announcements, predictions and rumours about what will happen once Donald Trump is sworn into office on Monday. A meme coin of the 45th and soon-to-be 47th president of the United States was launched on Friday night on Solana, and

Eva Senzaj Pauram
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