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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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GaryGensler   -   Nov 26, 2024 Gary Gensler: An Enemy to Crypto, But Well-Intentioned
Gary Gensler: An Enemy to Crypto, But Well-Intentioned

Gensler declared war on "fraudsters" and "hucklers" — and took celebrities to task when they promoted little-known coins to their millions of followers, without disclosing they had been paid to do so.

Observers
China   -   Nov 26, 2024 Are Cryptocurrencies Legal in China?
Are Cryptocurrencies Legal in China?

Shanghai Judge Sun Jie drew a line between personal crypto holdings and banned activities as the underground market thrives.

Mathilde Adam
Hacks, Bugs and Scams   -   Nov 25, 2024 AI Poisoning: Degen Scammed While Creating Trading Bot On ChatGTP
AI Poisoning: Degen Scammed While Creating Trading Bot On ChatGTP

Riding the memecoin wave to scam inexperienced and busy users, hackers have built “poisoned” repositories of trading bots, from which ChatGTP eventually trained.

Eva Senzaj Pauram
Newsletters   -   Nov 24, 2024 Sunday Review 24/11/2024
Sunday Review Observers

Happy Sunday, Observers! Good things come to those who wait, and we waited. Bitcoin was $500 short from $100,000 after the news that the world’s leading anti-crypto crusader, SEC’s chair Gary Gensler, is leaving its post. Now that we are throwing precautions out the window, wild things

Eva Senzaj Pauram
L1   -   Nov 23, 2024 Sui Network Back Online and Processing Transactions After Upgrade Code Bug
Sui Network Back Online and Processing Transactions After Upgrade Code Bug

The two-hour downtime was due to a bug in the transaction scheduling logic, which led to validators crashing. The incident resulted in a drop in SUI's price and raised doubts about the network’s ability to compete with Solana.

Alexander Mardar
Coins and tokens   -   Nov 22, 2024 DeSoc: Vitalik Buterin Buys ANON, Privacy Token Jumps 600%
DeSoc: Vitalik Buterin Buys ANON, Privacy Token Jumps 600%

The zero-knowledge privacy application is gaining momentum on Farcaster, which has been grappling with a 96% decline in monthly revenue since February.

Mathilde Adam
Exchanges   -   Nov 22, 2024 Coinbase Delists wBTC: Killing The Competition or Hiding Evidence?
Coinbase Delists wBTC: Killing The Competition or Hiding Evidence?

Coinbase delisting of wrapped Bitcoin comes as a surprise and leaves many questions unanswered.

Eva Senzaj Pauram
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