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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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Adoption Tools   -   May 12, 2022 Seven Hours Without Solana Flavoured Candies

Bots shut down the Solana network for seven hours. The chaos is over, an investigation has been conducted, the causes have been discovered, and actions to stabilize the network are being taken.

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Research   -   May 12, 2022 Now assets can be recovered even if the private key is lost
Flowchart for workflow

It is possible to recover access to assets in case of loss of a private key thanks to a new method developed by Professor Kim Hyoung…

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May 12, 2022 Is the Dollar’s Supremacy Coming to an End?
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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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