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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
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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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Banking CBDC Roundup   -   May 18, 2024 Banking and CBDC Weekend Roundup: 18/05/2024
Banking and CBDC Weekend Roundup Observers.com

Ghana collaborates with the Monetary Authority of Singapore in moneytech. Digital yuan expands to Hong Kong while workers in the mainland convert their e-CNY salaries into cash. Also several bullish developments in the race to tokenize real-world assets.

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Trading   -   May 17, 2024 Notcoin: What Was it and What is it Now?
Notcoin: What Was it and What is it Now?

Notcoin faced some challenges at launch but generally proved that the team has managed to literally create something from "Probably Nothing (c)".

Sasha Markevich
Trading   -   May 17, 2024 U.S. Institutional Investors All Are Buying In Spot Bitcoin ETFs
U.S. Institutional Investors All Are Buying In Spot Bitcoin ETFs

The risk associated with cryptocurrencies hasn't stopped some of the largest banks in America, wealth management funds, or even pension funds from adding Bitcoin ETFs to their portfolios.

Eva Senzaj Pauram
Trading   -   May 17, 2024 Musk Defies SEC, Thrilling Crypto Fans
Musk Defies SEC, Thrilling Crypto Fans

Despite repeated attempts to resist further questioning, Elon Musk will have to answer the SEC's questions about his Twitter takeover.

Sasha Markevich
Trading   -   May 16, 2024 Thousands Are About to Indirectly Invest in Bitcoin — and Not Know
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MicroStrategy's ascendancy to the MSCI rankings marks another subtle milestone in the crypto world's quest for mass adoption.

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Web3   -   May 16, 2024 A Slice of GPT: Sam Altman's Vision for AI-Powered Universal Basic Income
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OpenAI's CEO proposes a resource-based UBI system in which everyone gets access to powerful AI tools instead of money. While the concept of Universal Basic Services is not new, combining it with AI is revolutionary but adventurous.

Mathilde Adam
Moneytech   -   May 16, 2024 Is a BRICS Digital Currency in the Works?
BRICS R5 currency

Russian President Vladimir Putin, and his Brazilian counterpart Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, have both spoken of their ambition for BRICS to launch its own global currency — potentially cutting the dollar out of the picture.

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