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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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May 12, 2022 Is the Dollar’s Supremacy Coming to an End?
Foreign Exchange Reserves by Currency

It’s no secret that the U.S. Dollar makes up lion’s share of global foreign-exchange reserves. Let’s get some sort of perspective on how…

Observers
May 12, 2022 Europe Faces High Recession Risks
Europe Faces High Recession Risks

Lately, more and more publications have been warning about the looming recession hanging over the European economy. According to the…

Observers
Adoption   -   May 12, 2022 Checking on El Salvador Bitcoinization: Study by the University of Chicago
Checking on El Salvador Bitcoinization: Study by the University of Chicago

On April 25, Becker Friedman Institute for Economics at the University of Chicago published a paper “Are Cryptocurrencies Currencies…

Observers
May 12, 2022 Mercedes F1 Ethereum NFTs come with actual pieces of the car

Mercedes launches its latest NFT collection for the Miami Grand Prix, which will let some fans become owners of pieces of either Lewis…

Observers
May 12, 2022 Vatican is Launching NFT Gallery to ‘Democratize Art’

On May 2, it was announced that the Vatican, in partnership with the augmented reality company Sensorium ****and Humanity 2.0, will open an…

Observers
May 12, 2022 Louis Vuitton NFT Game Hits 2 Million Downloads
Louis Vuitton NFT Game

Louis Vuitton is currently celebrating 200 years, and is paying homage to its founder through a handful of new initiatives including an…

Observers
May 12, 2022 Tron’s Stablecoin Launch Seems to Be a Big Deal

H.E. Justin Sun, Founder of TRON, has announced the launch of USDD through the TRON DAO Reserve on Thursday, May 5. SunSwap, Uniswap…

Observers
Adoption   -   May 12, 2022 Bitcoin as Wall Street reserve. First crypto-backed loan given by Goldman Sachs

Wall Street is testing Bitcoin as collateral: global banking giant Goldman Sachs has given its first crypto-backed loan. It is a major step…

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