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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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Exchanges   -   Aug 21, 2024 Justin Sun Enters the Meme-coin Frenzy with Tron's New Token Launcher
Justin Sun Enters the Meme-coin Frenzy with Tron's New Token Launcher

Justin Sun has launched SunPump, a direct competitor to Solana’s Pump.fun, which enables fast and easy meme-coin creation on the Tron blockchain. The platform has quickly attracted a large user base, generating substantial revenue.

Alexander Mardar
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

Eva Senzaj Pauram
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