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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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Apr 29, 2022 US Extends Sanctions Against Russia To Cryptocurrency Mining, Bitcoin Holds Steady

In the wake of recent sanctions, cryptocurrencies have been barely affected. This week, however, U.S. officials targeted Russian bitcoin…

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Ethereum   -   Apr 25, 2022 What awaits us after “The Merge”?
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It seems that with the awards for Ethereum staking after “The Merge” everything will not be as well as the community expected. Or does it…

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Apr 25, 2022 EU’s Crypto Activism Gets Mixed Reception at Paris Blockchain Week

New EU money laundering rules could be unworkable and destructive to the crypto industry, some think. Others say crypto companies must learn to live with privacy-busting regulation. The crypto sector is still reeling from a string of votes in the European Parliament that some warned could prove regulatory overkill, attendees

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Apr 25, 2022 The Rise of NFT Photography

Recent data from Artprice suggests that the NFT photography market grew in 2021 to $200 million which is quite comparable to the size of…

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Apr 25, 2022 Terra buys another $100 Million worth of BTC

Terra is a public blockchain protocol deploying a suite of algorithmic decentralized stablecoins which underpin a thriving ecosystem that…

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CBDC   -   Apr 25, 2022 Fears and Hopes: How Digital U.S. Dollar Will Influence Crypto World

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Adoption   -   Apr 25, 2022 El Salvador: Using Cryptocurrency in the First Country to Approve Bitcoin as Legal Tender
El Salvador: Using Cryptocurrency in the First Country to Approve Bitcoin as Legal Tender

On June 9th, 2021, El Salvador’s government published the legislation making the digital currency Bitcoin legal tender within the country…

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Apr 22, 2022 Digital finance: Pilot regime on distributed ledger technology market infrastructures (DLT)

EU Pilot regime on distributed ledger technology market infrastructures (DLT).

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