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Mining   -   Sep 16, 2025 Bribing the Chain: How Qubic Shook Monero
Bribing the Chain: How Qubic Shook Monero

Monero, the leading privacy coin, suffered an 18-block reorg after Qubic consolidated large mining power. Debate rages: Qubic claims 51% control; Monero devs deny widescale damage. Exchanges raised confirmations. The episode shows PoW chains can be threatened by economic incentives

Alex Harutunian
Gaming   -   Sep 13, 2025 The Promise and Reality of Blockchain Games
blockchain gamers

After years of development, blockchain games still capture only a sliver of the gaming industry. The promise of true asset ownership, stable economies, and transferability remains unmet. Recent trends suggest blockchain was more hype feature than genuine necessity

Alex Harutunian
Tokenization   -   Sep 09, 2025 Nasdaq Pushes for Blockchain-Based Equities
nasdaq meets blockchain

Nasdaq has filed with the U.S. SEC to bring tokenized securities onto its main market, aiming to trade blockchain-based and traditional shares side by side. If approved, the move could make Nasdaq the first U.S. exchange to integrate tokenized equities under existing protections

Alex Harutunian
DEX   -   Sep 09, 2025 Hyperliquid Joins Stablecoin Race, Books USDH Ticker
Hyperliquid Joins Stablecoin Race, Books USDH Ticker

Hyperliquid is preparing to launch its own stablecoin, USDH, through a validator-led governance vote. With USDC currently dominating its ecosystem, USDH would reduce reliance on external issuers and capture reserve yield. Paxos, Frax, Ethena, and an Agora–MoonPay coalition are competing to deploy it

Alex Harutunian
Adoption   -   Aug 18, 2025 ROSCAs and Blockchain: Why the Perfect Match Never Worked
roscas and blockchain

Blockchain promised to reinvent ROSCAs through smart contracts, but despite many pilots adoption never scaled. Instead, the most successful digital ROSCAs are centralized apps like Tanda and Chama — thriving on trust, not code

Alex Harutunian
Bribing the Chain: How Qubic Shook Monero
Mining   -   Sep 16, 2025 Bribing the Chain: How Qubic Shook Monero

Monero, the leading privacy coin, suffered an 18-block reorg after Qubic consolidated large mining power. Debate rages: Qubic claims 51% control; Monero devs deny widescale damage. Exchanges raised confirmations. The episode shows PoW chains can be threatened by economic incentives

Alex Harutunian
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Newsletters   -   Jun 09, 2024 Sunday Review 09/06/2024
Sunday review observers

Today millions of voters across the European Union are heading to the polls to elect their country's representatives in the bloc's Parliament for the next five years. While the economic might of the twenty-seven-country union has been decreasing over the last few decades, its political institutions

Eva Senzaj Pauram
Banking CBDC Roundup   -   Jun 09, 2024 Banking and CBDC Weekend Roundup: 08/06/2024
Banking and CBDC Weekend Roundup: 08/06/2024

China's residents get red envelopes in the e-CNY app, while polls show that 59% of Germans have never even heard of the digital euro. Also this week, a cool use case for tokenization.

Observers
Web3   -   Jun 09, 2024 Telegram Stars Light the Way for Digital Goods
Telegram inapp star

The newly launched in-app coin will likely be mainly used in the trending tap-to-earn games.

Sasha Markevich
Tokenization   -   Jun 07, 2024 Work Intensifies In RWA Tokenization
Work Intensifies In RWA Tokenization

Real World Asset (RWA) tokenization is bringing the vast traditional markets to digital asset networks. But physical assets are difficult to connect to 'virtual value networks'. The blockchain industry players are bridging the gap.

Mathilde Adam
Moneytech   -   Jun 07, 2024 International CBDC As An Alternative To Dollar? Saudi Arabia Joins A Cross-Border CBDC Project
International CBDC As An Alternative To Dollar? Saudi Arabia Joins A Cross-Border CBDC Project

Saudi Arabia is among the countries where de-dollarization is one of the objectives set for the Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) projects.

Observers
Trading   -   Jun 07, 2024 Blum: A Smart And Simple New Exchange on Telegram
Blum: A Smart And Simple New Exchange on Telegram

Blum follows the path of Notcoin leveraging popular 'tap-to-earn' techniques, but unlike them offers a real product: a hybrid crypto exchange. The core team consists of former Binance employees with vast experience.

Sasha Markevich
Trading   -   Jun 06, 2024 Paradigm Introduces Method to Redirect MEV Profits to DApp Developers
Paradigm Introduces Method to Redirect MEV Profits to DApp Developers

A novel development by researchers at Paradigm allows dApp creators to tap into the lucrative MEV stream, traditionally only captured by blockchain validators.

Alexander Mardar
Moneytech   -   Jun 05, 2024 Tether Invests in Stablecoin Markets, Explores New Money Concepts
Tether USDT XREX

With billions of dollars in the bank, Tether invests in projects that plan to use its USDT stablecoin as well as in interesting ventures that build on its other products.

Observers
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