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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
Coins and tokens   -   Nov 25, 2025 The Crypto Seesaw: One Move, Everyone Falls
The Crypto Seesaw: One Move, Everyone Falls

Triggered by a routine macro shock, crypto once again unraveled faster than any other market. Not because of sentiment alone, but because CEX risk engines, DEX liquidation incentives, and always-on leverage turn small moves into cascading stress.

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
Ethos reputations
Oracles   -   Feb 28, 2026 Reputation Is Not Static. It Can Be Shorted On Ethos

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
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DAO   -   Aug 21, 2024 Curve DAO Faces Backlash over Funding Proposal
Curve DAO Faces Backlash over Funding Proposal

"The request for funding requests roughly ~50% of the [Curve's] community fund. This is an extreme concern around sustainability for the ecosystem and growth initiatives overall," one critic says.

Observers
SocialFi   -   Aug 21, 2024 'Untitled' Project Starts a Counter-Culture Movement in Web3
Untitled project by Joseph Delon

There is a new decentralized social network on the block that might not want you on it.

Eva Senzaj Pauram
Coins and tokens   -   Aug 21, 2024 European Soccer is Leading in the Crypto Sponsorship Race
European Soccer is Leading in the Crypto Sponsorship Race

Major and local crypto companies prefer sponsoring European teams and sports events rather than the U.S. ones. Recent deals, including Floki Inu with Nottingham Forest and Crypto.com with UEFA Champions League, highlight this trend.

Sasha Markevich
Coins and tokens   -   Aug 20, 2024 Sorting Out Crypto Mess: Digital Token Identifier Gains Traction
Sorting Out Crypto Mess: Digital Token Identifier Gains Traction

One standard for crypto tokens and coin identification is important for traders and regulators. The Digital Token Identifier (DTI) also testifies the maturity of the industry.

Observers
L2   -   Aug 20, 2024 Bumpy Road to Decentralization: Optimism Disables Permissionless Fraud Proofs
Bumpy Road to Decentralization: Optimism Disables Permissionless Fraud Proofs

Now the team is planning a network update with a hard fork set for about three weeks from now, aiming to fix the security vulnerabilities they've found and get their fraud proofs back up and running.

Alexander Mardar
Coins and tokens   -   Aug 19, 2024 IOTA Achieves Shari'a Compliance: Paving the Way for Islamic Finance Integration
IOTA Achieves Shari'a Compliance: Paving the Way for Islamic Finance Integration

Islamic finance adheres to the principles of Shari'a law, which prohibits the earning or payment of interest and emphasizes transactions backed by tangible assets or services.

Alexander Mardar
Newsletters   -   Aug 18, 2024 Sunday Review 18/08/2024
Sunday Review 18/08/2024

Hello Observers! Cryptocurrencies and national politics were once like oil and water—not a mix. As the sector grew into a billion-dollar industry, the situation took a turn, and now, the combination of the two has become something like the cocktail of the season. In the world's largest

Eva Senzaj Pauram
Banking CBDC Roundup   -   Aug 18, 2024 Banking and CBDC Weekend Roundup: 18/08/2024
Banking and CBDC Weekend Roundup: 18/08/2024

Apple opens NFC and SE. An association of German banks questions the value of the digital euro, while the only financial institution offering a wallet for Jamaica's CBDC claims it adds friction to the user experience.

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