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Gaming   -   Sep 13, 2025 The Promise and Reality of Blockchain Games
blockchain gamers

After years of development, blockchain games still capture only a sliver of the gaming industry. The promise of true asset ownership, stable economies, and transferability remains unmet. Recent trends suggest blockchain was more hype feature than genuine necessity

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
DEX   -   Sep 09, 2025 Hyperliquid Joins Stablecoin Race, Books USDH Ticker
Hyperliquid Joins Stablecoin Race, Books USDH Ticker

Hyperliquid is preparing to launch its own stablecoin, USDH, through a validator-led governance vote. With USDC currently dominating its ecosystem, USDH would reduce reliance on external issuers and capture reserve yield. Paxos, Frax, Ethena, and an Agora–MoonPay coalition are competing to deploy it

Alex Harutunian
Crypto Funds and Institutional Trading   -   Sep 03, 2025 Ether Machine Turns Ethereum Into Wall Street Stock
Ether Machine Turns Ethereum Into Wall Street Stock

The Ether Machine is bringing Ethereum to Wall Street through a SPAC merger and $2.1B in committed assets. Backed by ConsenSys veterans, it mirrors MicroStrategy’s playbook with convertible financing and promotion, while adding staking and restaking strategies that ETFs and Bitcoin wrappers cannot

Alex Harutunian
Stablecoins   -   Aug 13, 2025 USDC’s Circle Showcases Post-IPO Strength, Building Its Own Blockchain and Payment Networks
USDC’s Circle Showcases Post-IPO Strength, Building Its Own Blockchain and Payment Networks

Circle’s first post-IPO results show USDC supply nearly doubled YoY to $61.3B, market share up to 26%, and revenue +53% to $658M. The $1.2B IPO boosted equity to $2.37B, funding new plays like the Circle Payments Network and Arc blockchain in a bid to challenge Tether’s dominance

Alex Harutunian
blockchain gamers
Gaming   -   Sep 13, 2025 The Promise and Reality of Blockchain Games

After years of development, blockchain games still capture only a sliver of the gaming industry. The promise of true asset ownership, stable economies, and transferability remains unmet. Recent trends suggest blockchain was more hype feature than genuine necessity

Alex Harutunian
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Month in Money   -   Oct 30, 2024 Month in Money 10/2024

Bitget wallet on Telegram reaches 6 million users just 3 days after launch. FDUSD stablecoin set to launch on Solana. Binance partners with AWS for a cloud-based machine learning solution. Kraken launches a fully customizable desktop trading application. Chainlink unveils major upgrade to boost flexibility and scalability. London PR firm

Observers
Adoption Tools   -   Oct 30, 2024 Are Plastic Card Crypto Wallets Secure? A Deep Dive With Satochip
Are Plastic Card Crypto Wallets Secure? A Deep Dive With Satochip

Security and user experience remain paramount (and mutually exclusive) factors in the crypto industry. A plastic smartcard wallet is a handy, cheap, and familiar device for securing digital assets, but do we compromise on security? Our observer discusses it with Satochip founder Bastien Taquet

Sasha Markevich
Metrics and Signals   -   Oct 30, 2024 Hong Kong Launches Virtual Asset Index to Guide Asian DeFi Market
HKEX Hong Kong CCDATA

With the new Virtual Asset Index Series, HKEX aims to create benchmarks for Bitcoin and Ether in Asia. Administrated by CCData, the indices aim to offer real-time and settlement-oriented prices. Reliable benchmarks can boost investors' confidence and support other financial products.

Sasha Markevich
L2   -   Oct 29, 2024 The Rise of Optimism Superchain in Ethereum’s Layer 2 Space
The Rise of Optimism Superchain in Ethereum’s Layer 2 Space

Over 50 networks, including prominent ones like Base, Kraken, and Uniswap, have embraced Optimism’s technology, drawn by its simplicity and seamless interoperability.

Alexander Mardar
L1   -   Oct 28, 2024 Private Blockchain Pioneer R3 Explores Sale as Public Networks Take Over TradFi
Private Blockchain Pioneer R3 Explores Sale as Public Networks Take Over TradFi

Enterprise blockchain company R3 is exploring strategic options, including a potential sale, highlighting a broader shift in the financial sector's embrace of public over private blockchain networks.

Mathilde Adam
Banking CBDC Roundup   -   Oct 28, 2024 Banking and CBDC Weekly Roundup: 28/10/2024
Banking and CBDC weekly roundu

India is once again weighing up a crypto ban in order to boost adoption of the digital rupee, while the Russian regulator warns banks of penalties. A new report suggests tokenization has little risk of jeopardizing financial stability.

Observers
Stablecoins   -   Oct 28, 2024 Why Did Stripe Pay For Bridge 5.5x More Than It Was Worth?
Why Did Stripe Pay For Bridge 5.5x More Than It Was Worth?

Stripe has bet $1.1 billion that stablecoins payments are the future of international finance. Is the acquisition of "Bridge.xyz" a strategic move or internal transfer of the largest venture firm Sequoia Capital that funded both startups?

Eva Senzaj Pauram
Newsletters   -   Oct 27, 2024 Sunday Review 27/10/2024
Sunday Review 27/10/2024

It is with great relief that we report that the crypto community has had so much on its plate these past days that for the first week in a very long time, the politics of the United States were not the main topic of discussion in the space. It was

Eva Senzaj Pauram
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