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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
Oracles   -   Oct 25, 2025 Crowd-Sourced Truth from Prediction Markets
Illustration of a crowd observing or pointing toward a shared goal, symbolizing the collective discovery of truth through prediction markets

From Polymarket’s stripped-down design to Kalshi’s regulatory breakthrough, prediction markets are turning collective opinion into a financial asset class — and a new battleground over who defines truth

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
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
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
The Crypto Seesaw: One Move, Everyone Falls
Coins and tokens   -   Nov 25, 2025 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
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Exchanges   -   Nov 13, 2022 Binance and Iran. What’s Up?
Binance Global Head of Sanctions Chagri Poyraz blog post cover with Iranian flag and "banned" sign

Reuters recently [again] accused Binance of processing transactions from Iran worth over $8 billion despite U.S. sanctions. And this is not for the first time.

Sasha Markevich
Regulation   -   Nov 13, 2022 Issuers of Circle and Paxos Stablecoins Have Received Licenses From the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS)
 PAXOS and Circle logos against Singapore landscape

Circle and Paxos can now officially conduct transactions with their stablecoins, as well as other digital payment tokens in Singapore.

Alex Harutunian
Bridges and Interoperability   -   Nov 12, 2022 The Story About How Vigilance Saved Money or Why It Is Necessary to Listen to the Community
The Story About How Vigilance Saved Money or Why It Is Necessary to Listen to the Community

A Twitter user found an exploit in the BitBTC bridge. But, the developers ignored the user's requests until someone started using the exploit.

Alex Harutunian
Stablecoins   -   Nov 12, 2022 Zoom in on Stablecoins
Stablecoin logos Tether, USD Coin, Binance USD, DAI

This year was an eventful year in the world of crypto. In particular, the collapsed Terra and FTX crisis affected the entire crypto market, and again attracted the attention of regulators to crypto and stablecoins. Stablecoins are valued for their technological features, while, at the same time, maintaining a stable

Alex Harutunian
Stablecoins   -   Nov 11, 2022 Stablecoins React to FTX Crisis
Stablecoin Logos

Major stablecoins reacted to FTX saga by temporarily losing their peg. No major losses so far.

Alex Harutunian
Stablecoins   -   Nov 11, 2022 Circle Will Launch Its Own Euro Stablecoin on Solana in 2023
Circle Will Launch Its Own Euro Stablecoin on Solana in 2023

The euro-backed stablecoin will launch on Solana in the first half of 2023, Circle reported.

Alex Harutunian
CBDC   -   Nov 11, 2022 China Expands Digital Yuan Project
China map with Digital Yuan (e-CNY) adoption phases

China expands the e-CNY trials across four more provinces: Sichuan, Guangdong, Jiangsu, and Hebei. One of the first CBDCs in the world, China’s e-CNY is also showing great adoption rates.

Alex Harutunian
Update   -   Nov 10, 2022 UPD: Did Celsius Operate a Ponzi Scheme?

On the first of November, the next meeting on the Celsius bankruptcy case took place. The key note of this meeting was a decree from a Federal judge to conduct an investigation, which would show whether Celsius worked under a Ponzi scheme. The request for an investigation was the result

Alex Harutunian
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