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
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
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
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
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
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 Harutunian05.11.2025 StraitsX to expand stablecoin payment network across Asia by mid-2026. 05.11.2025 Cambodia to store national gold reserves with China. 05.11.2025 Canada includes stablecoin regulation costs in 2025 federal budget. 05.11.2025 Lido adopts Chainlink CCIP for cross-chain wstETH transfers. 05.11.2025
29.10.25 Ondo Finance launches Ondo Global Markets on BNB Chain. 29.10.25 Ethereum Foundation launches portal to guide institutional adoption. 29.10.25 Securitize goes public via SPAC merger with Cantor Fitzgerald’s CF Acquisition Corp VIII. 28.10.25 Trump Media & Technology Group to launch
Kazakhstan launched a state-backed crypto reserve, Alem Crypto Fund, partnering with Binance Kazakhstan and starting with an investment in $BNB. SWIFT is building a blockchain ledger with 30+ banks using Consensys. Polish lawmakers passed a Crypto-Asset Market Act, aligning rules with the EU’s MiCAR. Vitalik Buterin opposes EU’s
Uniswap’s Unichain has boosted L2 volumes past $40B, but liquidity tells a different story. TVL has halved since July, exposing the limits of incentive-driven growth. Despite cheaper fees, users remain on Ethereum—where Uniswap continues to be one of the network’s largest revenue engines.
TON Strategy Company, formerly Verb Technology, has rebranded as a Toncoin treasury, holding $713M in TON and targeting over 5% of supply. By staking its holdings and adopting financial engineering akin to Strategy’s playbook, it aims to turn crypto reserves into shareholder returns
From $GOAT to $FART, memecoins show how hype burns fast and budgets vanish faster. Market caps in the tens of millions may look like real businesses, but behind the joke lies sunk marketing spend, fragile communities, and the math of attention that always runs out of breath
Jito’s BAM transforms MEV on Solana from a private auction into a transparent, programmable marketplace. While Ethereum introduced PBS, Solana may now be a step ahead—embedding MEV handling directly into the protocol with greater flexibility and developer access.
Circle’s decision to bring native USDC to Hyperliquid underscores the chain’s rise as an institutional-grade DeFi hub, while advancing its strategy to make USDC the default stablecoin — trusted, redeemable, and seamlessly transferable across chains
BTC whale sells 24k BTC flash crash wipes longs. ETH hits new ATH above 4 900. Asia’s wealthy investors raise crypto allocations. Gemini files S-1 and secures MiCA EU license. Ether threatens 600 B market-cap, GENIUS Act stablecoin framework live. Metamask to issue its native mUSD stablecoin. Blockchain intelligence
Oklahoma Senator Dusty Deevers has introduced the "Bitcoin Freedom Act," which would allow residents to receive salaries in Bitcoin and vendors to accept BTC payments. The move aims to safeguard Oklahomans' earnings against inflation. When introducing the bill, Senator Deevers said, “If Washington D.C. can ruin
Rebecca Denton
China's government follows up on the Decision of the Communistic Party to "Build and operate a national data infrastructure to promote data sharing"
Rebecca Denton
While DeFi yields are highly attractive to traditional investors, the DeFi market still carries risks, making the convergence of DeFi and TradFi a longer-term prospect.
Alexander MardarFederal Reserve Vice Chair, Michael Barr, has opted to step down early to dodge what could have become a contentious legal fight with President-elect Donald Trump. Confirming a Reuters report on Monday, the Democrat appointee suggested that while he could likely win the battle to finish his term, the fight
Rebecca DentonThe pro-crypto governor of the Czech National Bank, Aleš Michl, is considering incorporating Bitcoin into the nation's foreign exchange reserves as part of a diversification strategy. In an interview on CNN, Michl suggested the move would be modest, introducing Bitcoin alongside traditional assets like gold. While the bank&
Rebecca Denton28 different meme-coins, including Doge, JShiba and Pluto, were sold by Vitalik Buterin this week. All proceeds from the almost 984,000 USDC sale were donated to his charity, Kanro. The sell-off impacted the price of the coins, including Dogecoin’s sister coin, Neiro, which plunged 3% after the sale.
Rebecca Denton
Happy New Year, Observers! We hope you are well rested because 2025 is probably going to be an even bigger rollercoaster than last year—and didn’t we have quite a wild ride? If you are within European Union borders, you were probably concerned by the uncertainty surrounding Tether’s
Eva Senzaj Pauram05.11.2025 StraitsX to expand stablecoin payment network across Asia by mid-2026. 05.11.2025 Cambodia to store national gold reserves with China. 05.11.2025 Canada includes stablecoin regulation costs in 2025 federal budget. 05.11.2025 Lido adopts Chainlink CCIP for cross-chain wstETH transfers. 05.11.2025
29.10.25 Ondo Finance launches Ondo Global Markets on BNB Chain. 29.10.25 Ethereum Foundation launches portal to guide institutional adoption. 29.10.25 Securitize goes public via SPAC merger with Cantor Fitzgerald’s CF Acquisition Corp VIII. 28.10.25 Trump Media & Technology Group to launch
Kazakhstan launched a state-backed crypto reserve, Alem Crypto Fund, partnering with Binance Kazakhstan and starting with an investment in $BNB. SWIFT is building a blockchain ledger with 30+ banks using Consensys. Polish lawmakers passed a Crypto-Asset Market Act, aligning rules with the EU’s MiCAR. Vitalik Buterin opposes EU’s
Uniswap’s Unichain has boosted L2 volumes past $40B, but liquidity tells a different story. TVL has halved since July, exposing the limits of incentive-driven growth. Despite cheaper fees, users remain on Ethereum—where Uniswap continues to be one of the network’s largest revenue engines.
TON Strategy Company, formerly Verb Technology, has rebranded as a Toncoin treasury, holding $713M in TON and targeting over 5% of supply. By staking its holdings and adopting financial engineering akin to Strategy’s playbook, it aims to turn crypto reserves into shareholder returns
From $GOAT to $FART, memecoins show how hype burns fast and budgets vanish faster. Market caps in the tens of millions may look like real businesses, but behind the joke lies sunk marketing spend, fragile communities, and the math of attention that always runs out of breath
Jito’s BAM transforms MEV on Solana from a private auction into a transparent, programmable marketplace. While Ethereum introduced PBS, Solana may now be a step ahead—embedding MEV handling directly into the protocol with greater flexibility and developer access.
Circle’s decision to bring native USDC to Hyperliquid underscores the chain’s rise as an institutional-grade DeFi hub, while advancing its strategy to make USDC the default stablecoin — trusted, redeemable, and seamlessly transferable across chains