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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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Web3   -   Jun 10, 2024 More Open AI, Less OpenAI: Near Protocol Defies Tech Giants' Control Of Artificial Intelligence
Near.ai illia polosukhi

The monopolization of AI on a handful of centralized companies has prompted Near Foundation to draw a strategy to transform Near into the epicentre of AI-centered, blockchain-run, user-owned technology.

Eva Senzaj Pauram
Trading   -   Jun 10, 2024 Bitcoin ETFs Show No Sign of Slowing Down
Bitcoin ETFs

BlackRock's now overtaken Grayscale as the most popular spot BTC ETF — and there's growing conviction that fresh all-time highs are inevitable.

Observers
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

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
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