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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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Litigation   -   Oct 17, 2024 Ripple: SEC Files Last-Minute Appeal, $1M XRP Donation to Harris Campaign
Ripple: SEC Files Last-Minute Appeal, $1M XRP Donation to Harris Campaign

XRP prices rose as the SEC missed its October 16 deadline. Ripple co-founder Chris Larsen made a significant XRP donation to the Kamala Harris campaign.

Mathilde Adam
Adoption Tools   -   Oct 17, 2024 How Is Durov's Arrest Connected to Telegram's Crypto Expansion?
How Is Durov's Arrest Connected to Telegram's Crypto Expansion?

Telegram's founder was arrested in August in France. While the reason given was his connection to criminal activity on the platform, Telegram's activities in Web3 could be the real cause. Like Facebook's Libra/Diem, authorities can be sensitive to private money initiatives by large social networks.

Sasha Markevich
Ethereum   -   Oct 16, 2024 Vitalik Buterin: Possible Futures of the Ethereum Protocol
Vitalik Buterin Ethereum improvement

Buterin ponders the necessary infrastructural changes that should be implemented in Ethereum to enhance its decentralization and reduce its time to finality.

Alexander Mardar
Metrics and Signals   -   Oct 16, 2024 Is Bitcoin Not Popular Anymore?
Bitcoin google search google trends

Bitcoin hit its lowest search interest level on Google last week. The simplest reason—that it might be losing its popularity—is not the right one.

Eva Senzaj Pauram
L2   -   Oct 15, 2024 Layer 2 Blockchains or Just Advanced Servers? Uniswap Migrates To Its Own Infrastructure
Layer 2 Blockchains or Just Advanced Servers? Uniswap Migrates To Its Own Infrastructure

Uniswap launches "Unichain" - a Layer 2 blockchain with promises of lower costs and faster trades. But where is the line that divides decentralized networks from proprietary servers?

Alexander Mardar
Coins and tokens   -   Oct 15, 2024 Trump's World Liberty Token Raises $5m in First Few Hours
Trump's World Liberty Token Raises $5m in First Few Hours

WLFI Token went on sale today. So far, it has raised $5m, or 1.7% of its target, with Election Day just three weeks away.

Rebecca Denton
Banking CBDC Roundup   -   Oct 14, 2024 Banking and CBDC Weekly Roundup: 14/10/2024
Banking and CBDC Weekly Roundup Observers

More than 180 million digital yuan wallets have now been created — but over in the UK, campaigners fear "Britcoin" could plunge privacy and freedom of expression into peril.

Observers
Sunday Review   -   Oct 13, 2024 Sunday Review 13/10/2024
Sunday Review Observers

Happy Sunday, Observers! Have you settled on who Satoshi Nakamoto is, or has the HBO documentary about the mastermind who created Bitcoin just made you more confused? Peter Todd, who the movie released earlier this week claims to be Satoshi, has refused the claims, giving rise to dozens of alternative

Eva Senzaj Pauram
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