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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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NFT   -   May 04, 2022 Exploit + Bug = $33M locked
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The development team of Akutars, a highly anticipated NFT project, encountered an exploit and a bug in the smart contract, which disrupted the auction and led to the blocking of more than 11,500 ETH inside the smart contract. Bad luck or a thoughtful advertising campaign?

Alex Harutunian
Mining   -   May 04, 2022 Bitcoin’s Hash-rate All-Time High
bitcoin hashrate

Bitcoin hash rate at ATH amid changing investment sentiment

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Exchanges   -   May 04, 2022 Crypto.com gives gifts

Crypto.com, a cryptocurrency exchange app based in Singapore, announced that it has committed a four-year gift to the Massachusetts…

Alex Harutunian
Regulation   -   May 04, 2022 Sitharaman Urges Prevention of Cryptocurrencies from Being Used for Money Laundering

India has pitched for a global framework to regulate cryptocurrencies identifying their use in money laundering and terror financing as the…

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Apr 29, 2022 Bitcoin becomes new official currency in Central African Republic
Bitcoin in Central African Republic

The Central African Republic (CAR) has approved Bitcoin as legal tender on April 26 — just the second country to do so after El Salvador…

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Economy   -   Apr 29, 2022 Israel Adds Yuan to $206 Billion Reserves in ‘Philosophy’ Change
Israel Adds Yuan to $206 Billion Reserves in ‘Philosophy’ Change

Israel’s central bank has made the biggest changes to its allocation of reserves in over a decade, adding the Chinese yuan alongside three…

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Apr 29, 2022 $625M Crypto Theft, Lazarus to Blame?

U.S. officials have linked hacking group Lazarus to the recent largest decentralized finance hack: theft of $625 million in cryptocurrency…

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Apr 29, 2022 UK Crypto Industry Hopes for More Clarity From Planned Stablecoin Rules
UK Crypto Industry Hopes for More Clarity From Planned Stablecoin Rules

A new regulatory package for crypto could clear up some grey areas for digital asset companies around which regulations they should comply…

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