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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
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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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Moneytech   -   Apr 23, 2024 Ethena Labs: Navigating the Risks of a High-Tech Stablecoin
Ethena Labs Arthur Hayes USDe

Ethena Labs’ USDe stablecoin offers a high annual yield, sourced from funding payments and staking rewards. However, these particular sources of yield also expose the project to risks that could result in problems for the project during a bear market.

Alexander Mardar
Polkadot   -   Apr 23, 2024 Polkadot Unveils JAM: Major Upgrade & 10 Million DOT Incentive
Gavin-Wood-JAM-presentation-on-Token2049-2024

The revision promises enhanced scalability and paves the way for a future of distributed computing on the Polkadot network, with a hefty prize pool incentivizing community adoption and development.

Mathilde Adam
Trading   -   Apr 23, 2024 Risky Bets: ETH Lost and Trust Broken at ZKasino
ETH Lost and Trust Broken at ZKasino

ZKasino, a blockchain-based gambling platform, is under scrutiny after users accused it of misleading investors and stealing deposited ETH. Notably, prominent backers like Big Brain Holdings and MEXC distanced themselves from the project in light of these fraudulent activities

Alexander Mardar
Scam   -   Apr 22, 2024 HEX in Chaos as Founder Fans the Flames
HEX in Chaos as Founder Fans the Flames

Now based on two blockchains, founder Richard Heart is expressing a strong preference for one version of HEX over the other.

Observers
Bitcoin   -   Apr 22, 2024 Runes Go Live On Bitcoin Halving Day
Runes Go Live On Bitcoin Halving Day

Together with Bitcoin issue contraction, we now have another data protocol on top of Bitcoin, that tries to extend the use of the number one blockchain. Like Ordinals and BRC-20 tokens, Runes protocol creates new digital assets by writing into the data storage of bitcoin tokens.

Alex Harutunian
Newsletters   -   Apr 21, 2024 Sunday Review 21/04/2024
Sunday Review 21/04/2024

Crypto conferences Token 2049 and Blockchain Life were disrupted this week as roads turned into rivers and building facades into rumbles in their host country of Dubai. A large storm traversing the Arabian Peninsula brought flooding rainfalls and devastating winds to the usual sunny destination. The unseasonal and extreme climate

Eva Senzaj Pauram
Moneytech   -   Apr 21, 2024 USDT on Telegram's TON. Not Just Another Network Integration For Tether
USDT on Telegram's TON. Not Just Another Network Integration For Tether

Tether’s USDT and its gold-backed XAUT tokens have gone live on The Open Network. A landmark deal for both sides, this cooperation might send ripples across the crypto industry.

Rebecca Denton
Banking CBDC Roundup   -   Apr 20, 2024 Banking and CBDC Weekend Roundup: 20/04/2024
Banking and CBDC Weekend Roundup: 20/04/2024 Observers.com

For all the key details of new blockchain projects in the banking world, real-world asset (RWA) tokenization, stablecoins, and central bank digital currency (CBDC) updates, the Observers 'Banking and CBDC Roundup' has you covered. Kicking off with the digital euro — and a whitepaper was released this week that

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