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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   -   Sep 04, 2024 Trump/Harris and the Crypto Choice: Big Promises or No Promises
Trump/Harris and the Crypto Choice: Big Promises or No Promises

Choose between the crypto-populist whose "family" just launched a DeFi platform or the ice-cold regulator who might be showing signs of thawing.

Rebecca Denton
Exchanges   -   Sep 04, 2024 Former Mt. Gox CEO’s Journey Led Him To A New Crypto Exchange
Former Mt. Gox CEO’s Journey Led Him To A New Crypto Exchange

Mark Karpeles is launching a new “transparent and user-friendly” crypto exchange in Europe this month. Meanwhile, the Mt.Gox saga is slowly coming to an end, and his other project is set to bring more transparency to the industry.

Sasha Markevich
L1   -   Sep 03, 2024 Ripple is Launching Smart Contracts With Ethereum Tech
Ripple ethereum smart contracts

The long-delayed rollout of smart contracts for its XRP Ledger hardly seems groundbreaking amid an oversaturated market of smart contract platforms.

Alexander Mardar
Exchanges   -   Sep 03, 2024 The Harbingers of Crypto Regulation in Nigeria: Two Exchanges Licensed
The Harbingers of Crypto Regulation in Nigeria: Two Exchanges Licensed

Nigeria licensed two local crypto exchanges, which might signal the end of a regulatory crackdown on the industry. Still, authorities' attitude towards crypto remains controversial.

Sasha Markevich
Tokenization   -   Sep 02, 2024 Tequila For Everybody: Mexican Distillery Gets Blocksquare's Community Greenlight For RWA Marketplace
Tequila For Everybody: Mexican Distillery Gets Blocksquare's Community Greenlight For RWA Marketplace

The marketplace pool of the real estate project Rancho Altos reached its community funding target in less than 48 hours.

Eva Senzaj Pauram
Layer1   -   Sep 02, 2024 Decentralizing Governance: Phase One of Cardano’s Chang Hard Fork Activated
Decentralizing Governance: Phase One of Cardano’s Chang Hard Fork Activated

The hard fork introduces an interim governance structure to Cardano, featuring an Interim Constitution and a new constitutional committee. This upgrade facilitates community-led decision-making, laying the foundation for a fully decentralized governance model.

Alexander Mardar
Banking CBDC Roundup   -   Sep 02, 2024 Banking and CBDC Weekend Roundup: 01/09/2024
Banking and CBDC Weekend Roundup: 01/09/2024

The Chinese-led mBridge protocol is making progress, with the second digital yuan payment transaction publicly recorded. India's CBDC program has five million users but no public transaction figures to share. Experimentation with tokenization is expanding across the region.

Observers
Newsletters   -   Sep 01, 2024 Sunday Review 01/09/2024
Sunday Review 01/09/2024

Hello Observers! A storm called Buterin turned the DeFi side of crypto Twitter upside down this week. The Ethereum co-founder's views on the yield sustainability of the sector's projects led to some serious questions and kicked off heated discussions, with many accusing Buterin of treason

Eva Senzaj Pauram
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