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
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
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
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
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 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
After years of legal uncertainty, U.S. regulators have opened the door for on-chain shareholder records. From Galaxy and Securitize to DTC’s pilot, equity is moving into the blockchain mesh—reshaping settlement, trading, and the future architecture of capital markets.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. Nakamoto Inc. (NASDAQ: NAKA) (“Nakamoto” or the “Company”) today announced that it has entered into merger agreements to acquire BTC Inc, the leading provider of Bitcoin-related media and events, and UTXO Management GP, LLC (“UTXO”), an investment firm focused on private and public Bitcoin companies (collectively, the “Transaction”
The digital euro is increasingly framed as a tool of EU sovereignty. China’s interest-bearing e-CNY shows no banking disruption so far. Tokenization goes mainstream as the ECB validates DLT collateral and the U.S. SEC distinguishes issuer-backed from wrapper tokens.
Bermuda is integrating USDC stablecoin into its economy. In a dollar-pegged island state, stablecoins aren’t replacing money—they’re upgrading the rails. If it works, dozens of “Other Bermudas” could emerge as the next growth engine for stablecoins.
• Ethereum Foundation begins staking its ETH treasury. • The 20 millionth Bitcoin is mined. • Starknet introduces STRK20, a privacy-focused token standard that obscures sender and receiver addresses.
01.01.2026 EU crypto tax transparency directive DAC8 takes effect, requiring crypto-asset service providers to report user data to national tax authorities. 01.01.2026 MiCA comes into force in Spain. 31.12.2025 Ethereum smart contract deployments hit a record high in Q4. 2026 OUTLOOK Haseeb Qureshi (Dragonfly
Balancer Protocol was exploited through a tiny rounding bug in its code. As losses neared $100 million, projects froze pools, rolled back blockchains, and clawed back funds—revealing the centralized and still untamed side of decentralized finance
01.12.2025 Telegram’s Pavel Durov announces Cocoon, a decentralized confidential AI compute network. 01.12.2025 SushiSwap CEO steps down as Synthesis invests $3.3M in the struggling DEX. 01.12.2025 Grayscale to launch the first Chainlink ETF in the US. 01.12.2025 Germany and Switzerland
29.10.25 Ondo Finance launches Ondo Global Markets on BNB Chain. 29.10.25 Ethereum Foundation launches portal to guide institutional adoption. 29.10.25 Securitize goes public via SPAC merger with Cantor Fitzgerald’s CF Acquisition Corp VIII. 28.10.25 Trump Media & Technology Group to launch
The USDT on the TON network was integrated into several global exchanges, including Binance. This is a part of the two companies' strategy to boost USDT on TON adoption. The interest in the project is reflected in the TON token price, which is soaring due to institutional and retail demand.
Sasha Markevich
It has been one more week of destructive heavy rains and heatwaves, horrific war acts, alarming reports on looming financial crises, and muddy political battles threatening to destroy the social fabric of whole societies. In the face of all the chaos around them (or to not face it), people turned
Eva Senzaj Pauram
The IMF's been warned that it might have bitten off more than it can chew as it leads the charge on CBDC policies, as McKinsey claims the tokenization market in 2030 will be worth a lot less than previous estimates. Iran, Ethiopia and South Korea in CBDC news.
Observers
The standard is designed to streamline cross-chain transfers and swaps across the Ethereum network.
Alexander Mardar
Although CertiK claims this was a white hat operation, how the incident was reported and the vulnerability tested raises many questions about its security auditing practices.
Alexander Mardar
In crypto, gamification is often used to promote user engagement and grow projects' adoption levels. What if game elements were deployed to make consumers behave more sustainably?
Eva Senzaj Pauram
There are searing questions about why Kwon, who went on the run after Terra's demise, chose to hide himself in Montenegro — but Milojko Spajić remains tight-lipped.
ObserversThe major exchanges are acting cautiously prior to the partial implementation of MiCA, which might push Euro-pegged stablecoins adoption. USDT and USDC's future in the area remains unclear.
Sasha Markevich
After years of legal uncertainty, U.S. regulators have opened the door for on-chain shareholder records. From Galaxy and Securitize to DTC’s pilot, equity is moving into the blockchain mesh—reshaping settlement, trading, and the future architecture of capital markets.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. Nakamoto Inc. (NASDAQ: NAKA) (“Nakamoto” or the “Company”) today announced that it has entered into merger agreements to acquire BTC Inc, the leading provider of Bitcoin-related media and events, and UTXO Management GP, LLC (“UTXO”), an investment firm focused on private and public Bitcoin companies (collectively, the “Transaction”
The digital euro is increasingly framed as a tool of EU sovereignty. China’s interest-bearing e-CNY shows no banking disruption so far. Tokenization goes mainstream as the ECB validates DLT collateral and the U.S. SEC distinguishes issuer-backed from wrapper tokens.
Bermuda is integrating USDC stablecoin into its economy. In a dollar-pegged island state, stablecoins aren’t replacing money—they’re upgrading the rails. If it works, dozens of “Other Bermudas” could emerge as the next growth engine for stablecoins.
• Ethereum Foundation begins staking its ETH treasury. • The 20 millionth Bitcoin is mined. • Starknet introduces STRK20, a privacy-focused token standard that obscures sender and receiver addresses.
01.01.2026 EU crypto tax transparency directive DAC8 takes effect, requiring crypto-asset service providers to report user data to national tax authorities. 01.01.2026 MiCA comes into force in Spain. 31.12.2025 Ethereum smart contract deployments hit a record high in Q4. 2026 OUTLOOK Haseeb Qureshi (Dragonfly
Balancer Protocol was exploited through a tiny rounding bug in its code. As losses neared $100 million, projects froze pools, rolled back blockchains, and clawed back funds—revealing the centralized and still untamed side of decentralized finance
01.12.2025 Telegram’s Pavel Durov announces Cocoon, a decentralized confidential AI compute network. 01.12.2025 SushiSwap CEO steps down as Synthesis invests $3.3M in the struggling DEX. 01.12.2025 Grayscale to launch the first Chainlink ETF in the US. 01.12.2025 Germany and Switzerland