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Oracles   -   Oct 25, 2025 Crowd-Sourced Truth from Prediction Markets
Illustration of a crowd observing or pointing toward a shared goal, symbolizing the collective discovery of truth through prediction markets

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
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
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
DEX   -   Sep 18, 2025 Curve’s Egorov Proposes a New Solution to DeFi's Pain
Michael Egorov proposes Yield Basis pool in Curve protocol

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
Tokenization   -   Sep 09, 2025 Nasdaq Pushes for Blockchain-Based Equities
nasdaq meets blockchain

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
Illustration of a crowd observing or pointing toward a shared goal, symbolizing the collective discovery of truth through prediction markets
Oracles   -   Oct 25, 2025 Crowd-Sourced Truth from Prediction Markets

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
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Prediction Markets   -   Nov 14, 2024 Political Revenge or Something Else? Why Was Polymarket CEO’s Home Raided by the FBI?
Polymarket FBI

The shock raid follows Polymarket's stellar performance in predicting the U.S. Election results.

Rebecca Denton
Ethereum   -   Nov 14, 2024 Not Quite Ethereum 3.0: Justin Drake Wants to Change Ethereum’s Consensus Layer
Not Quite Ethereum 3.0: Justin Drake Wants to Change Ethereum’s Consensus Layer

The Ethereum Foundation aims to roll out several major upgrades over the next few years to improve Ethereum’s consensus layer. Developed five years ago, the current consensus no longer aligns with today’s realities and needs updating.

Alexander Mardar
Coins and tokens   -   Nov 13, 2024 Another Bull Market, Another Fad Memecoin
PNUT meme coin, inspired by the story of Peanut the Squirrel

PNUT, inspired by the story of Peanut the Squirrel, has now raced to a $1.7 billion market cap. But we all know how this story ends — and it's bad news for everyday consumers.

Observers
Litigation   -   Nov 13, 2024 FTX Launches $1.8B Clawback Against Binance, Files 25 Lawsuits to Recover Assets
FTX Launches $1.8B Clawback Against Binance, Files 25 Lawsuits to Recover Assets

The bankruptcy estate has launched a massive clawback campaign, alleging the crypto exchange was insolvent when the transfers occurred.

Mathilde Adam
Coins and tokens   -   Nov 13, 2024 Week-Long Crypto Surge As Trump Appoints Musk To DOGE
Week-Long Crypto Surge As Trump Appoints Musk To DOGE

The crypto market soared following Donald Trump's re-election, with Bitcoin racking up another high and Dogecoin surging a further 20% on Musk news.

Rebecca Denton
Ethereum   -   Nov 12, 2024 Ethereum Name Service Plans to Launch Its Own Layer 2 Network
Ethereum Name Service Plans to Launch Its Own Layer 2 Network

The new Layer 2 network aims to make the ENS project more decentralized and open to new use cases and connections, solving the issues previously caused by the Ethereum mainnet.

Alexander Mardar
Banking CBDC Roundup   -   Nov 11, 2024 Banking and CBDC Weekly Roundup: 11/11/2024
Banking and CBDC Weekend Roundup Observers.com

China releases a hard wallet for the digital yuan, as Amazon trials a tokenization concept that sees small businesses paid faster.

Mathieu Legrand
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