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Tokenization   -   Oct 09, 2026 Tokenization for Everything: Where Did We Actually Get?
Tokenization for Everything: Where Did We Actually Get?

Tokenization was supposed to disrupt global capital markets, but it ended in an unexpected compromise: permissionless rails carrying permissioned finance. A deep dive into SEC equity rules, European wholesale settlement, and why crypto’s plumbing is being absorbed to reinforce legacy finance.

Alex Harutunian
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
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
Tokenization for Everything: Where Did We Actually Get?
Tokenization   -   Oct 09, 2026 Tokenization for Everything: Where Did We Actually Get?

Tokenization was supposed to disrupt global capital markets, but it ended in an unexpected compromise: permissionless rails carrying permissioned finance. A deep dive into SEC equity rules, European wholesale settlement, and why crypto’s plumbing is being absorbed to reinforce legacy finance.

Alex Harutunian
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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
Coins and tokens   -   Oct 11, 2024 Market Makers Gone Rogue Are Caught Red-Handed In An FBI And SEC Joint Investigation
Market Makers Gone Rogue Are Caught Red-Handed In An FBI And SEC Joint Investigation

“These are cases where an innovative technology – cryptocurrency – met a century-old scheme – the pump and dump."

Eva Senzaj Pauram
CBDC   -   Oct 11, 2024 ECB Director Piero Cipollone Makes The Case for a Unified European Ledger
ECB Director Piero Cipollone Makes The Case for a Unified European Ledger

While the idea of a unified ledger is not new, a proposition coming from the ECB, alongside the much-hyped digital euro, suggests a big shift could be coming.

Rebecca Denton
Coins and tokens   -   Oct 10, 2024 Crypto Founders Beware! Arthur Hayes Shares Advice On Initial Fundings And Primary Listings
Crypto Founders Beware! Arthur Hayes Shares Advice On Initial Fundings And Primary Listings

"If someone makes money with your project, it should be you and your users."

Eva Senzaj Pauram
Adoption   -   Oct 10, 2024 Próspera City: The Interests Of A Few Tech Moguls versus The Will Of The Honduran People?
Prospera City

A narco government passed a controversial law allowing the creation of a tax and tech-experimental paradise just a couple of miles away from U.S. shores. Locals want it gone, but the international legal system seems to be set up against them.

Eva Senzaj Pauram
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