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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   -   Nov 18, 2022 Was Burning a Frida Kahlo Drawing for NFT Project a Bad Idea?
Was Burning a Frida Kahlo Drawing for NFT Project a Bad Idea?

Crypto businessman Martin Mobarak destroyed a Frida Kahlo drawing worth $10 million for his NFT project. Sadly, the project has so far sold NFTs for only $11,000, and Mobarak has broken Mexican law with his stunt.

Alex Harutunian
Update   -   Nov 18, 2022 UPD: Meta Tests Minting and Selling NFTs on Instagram
UPD: Meta Tests Minting and Selling NFTs on Instagram

Meta recently announced that it has started testing minting and selling NFTs on Instagram with a small group of creators in the US along with expanding its NFT showcase feature.

Alex Harutunian
Exchanges   -   Nov 17, 2022 Binance Proposes A Recovery Fund as Exchanges Face Liquidity Crisis
Binance Proposes A Recovery Fund as Exchanges Face Liquidity Crisis

CZ says that Binance is setting up a recovery fund to help rebuild the industry as it faces a liquidity crisis - mistakes appear one by one.

Sasha Markevich
FTX   -   Nov 17, 2022 FTX Auditor Has an Office in the Metaverse
FTX Auditor Has an Office in the Metaverse

The collapse of FTX crypto exchange and the hype around it has put the company’s auditors in the spotlight. Apparently, the company that confirmed that FTX earned $1 billion in revenue in 2021, loves a good party in Decentraland metaverse.

Alex Harutunian
CBDC   -   Nov 16, 2022 US Fed Tests Wholesale CDBC With R3 Commercial Banks
New York Innovation Center logo and moto

The New York Innovation Center (NYIC), a joint project of US Fed and BIS, is launching a proof-of-concept project to explore the feasibility of an interoperable network of digital central bank liabilities and commercial bank digital money using distributed ledger technology.

Alex Harutunian
Ethereum   -   Nov 16, 2022 Vitalik Buterin Announced The Scourge – a New Stage in the Ethereum Roadmap
Vitalik Buterin Announced The Scourge – a New Stage in the Ethereum Roadmap

The Scourge is a new stage in the Ethereum Roadmap. Why is it needed and what will it bring to the network?

Alex Harutunian
Adoption   -   Nov 15, 2022 MoneyGram Opens Up Crypto For Its Users
MoneyGram and Coinme. Source: fintechnews.am

MoneyGram announced that they are launching cryptocurrency trading in partnership with a crypto exchange Coinme. Users of MoneyGram, a financial services provider, can now trade cryptocurrencies in a mobile application. The list of digital currencies is limited to Bitcoin, Ether, and Litecoin. The new feature is available to U.S.

Observers
NFT   -   Nov 14, 2022 Multi-Billion-Dollar Hack or FUD? Gala Games' Troubles
gala games

Gala Games faced an exploit that could have potentially brought hackers several billion dollars.

Alex Harutunian
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