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Jul 08, 2025 From Coins to QR: The Changing Face of Money
QR in payments and new money

QR codes have emerged as a global interface for digital payments, gaining ground from Asia to the U.S. for their simplicity, low cost, and security. As countries move toward unified standards, the shape of money is shifting—from coins and cards to scannable squares.

Alex Harutunian
DEX   -   Jul 08, 2025 Crypto Exchages' Changing Landscape
DEX CEX CLOB

Decentralized exchanges just hit a record high, with DEX-to-CEX spot volumes reaching parity for the first time. The middle-tier altcoin sector, once central to CEX activity, is losing ground. Meanwhile, a new generation of CLOB-based DEXs is preparing to reshape the landscape of crypto trading.

Alexander Mardar
Adoption   -   Jul 06, 2025 GBBC Maps 101 Real-World Blockchain Use Cases for 2025
GBBC Maps 101 Real-World Blockchain Use Cases for 2025

The GBBC’s 2025 Handbook captures a new phase of blockchain adoption: from renegade roots to institutional alignment. With compliant infrastructure and regulated tokenization, blockchain is no longer an outsider—it’s becoming the backbone.

Alex Harutunian
Staking   -   Jul 04, 2025 EigenLayer Expands Its Product Offering with EigenCloud
EigenLayer Expands Its Product Offering with EigenCloud

EigenLayer has launched EigenCloud, a decentralized platform combining off-chain compute, verification, and data availability. Built on its restaking model, EigenCloud enables developers to build trust-minimized apps using services like EigenCompute, EigenVerify, and EigenDA.

Alexander Mardar
L1   -   Jun 18, 2025 Bitcoin's Heavy Load: The OP_RETURN Debate Rolls On
Bitcoin's Heavy Load: The OP_RETURN Debate Rolls On

A controversial change in Bitcoin Core will remove relay limits on the OP_RETURN field, allowing larger data payloads to spread across the network. Critics fear spam and bloat; supporters say it's already happening—and making it visible will improve fee markets and mempool consistency.

Alexander Mardar
QR in payments and new money
Jul 08, 2025 From Coins to QR: The Changing Face of Money

QR codes have emerged as a global interface for digital payments, gaining ground from Asia to the U.S. for their simplicity, low cost, and security. As countries move toward unified standards, the shape of money is shifting—from coins and cards to scannable squares.

Alex Harutunian
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Telegram   -   Oct 28, 2022 Telegram Launched Username Auction Marketplace
Telegram Launched Username Auction Marketplace

The popular messaging app Telegram, which has over 700 million users, launches its marketplace for auctioning unique usernames for social platforms on the TON blockchain.

Alex Harutunian
Update   -   Oct 28, 2022 UPD: OpenSea Revises OpenRarity Protocol

Recently OpenSea introduced a new rarity ranking protocol called OpenRarity.

Alex Harutunian
Update   -   Oct 28, 2022 UPD: OpenSea Sees its Marketshare Slip
UPD: OpenSea Sees its Marketshare Slip

On October 20, Binance Market Pulse report was released that showed a slow and steady change in NFT marketplace leadership.

Alex Harutunian
Chainalysis   -   Oct 28, 2022 Chainalysis Report. What is Happening with the Cryptocurrency Markets of Russia and Ukraine Since February 2022
The magnifier with the Chainalysis logo is aimed at cryptocurrencies.

Chainalysis has released a new report describing the study of the cryptocurrency market in Eastern Europe. The report pays special attention to the crypto markets of Ukraine and Russia, whose economies are experiencing serious difficulties, which is forcing users to show interest in digital assets.

Alex Harutunian
Celsius   -   Oct 28, 2022 Crypto-astrologer Promoted Celsius Shortly Before The Company's Bankruptcy
Crypto-astrologer Promoted Celsius Shortly Before The Company's Bankruptcy

Maren Altman was criticized on Twitter for advertising Celsius shortly before the company filed for bankruptcy in court.

Alex Harutunian
CBDC   -   Oct 27, 2022 Hong Kong CBDC System Prototype Aurum
Central Bank role and different CBDCs types correlation. Source: BIS report

The Bank for International Settlements Innovation Hub Hong Kong Centre and the Hong Kong Monetary Authority cooperated to create a two-tier CBDC system that mirrors the current Hong Kong currency system and features unusual CBDC-backed stablecoins.

Sasha Markevich
SEC   -   Oct 27, 2022 SEC Probing NFT Market. Yuga Labs Under Investigation
SEC Probing NFT Market. Yuga Labs Under Investigation

Yuga Labs, the creator of the blue chip NFT collection Bored Ape Yacht Club, is said to be one of companies under investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) as it probes the NFT market.

Alex Harutunian
Exchanges   -   Oct 25, 2022 BitMEX wants to start from scratch in Switzerland
The landscape of Swizerland. Source: baamboozle.com

The BitMEX cryptocurrency exchange plans to be revived in a new guise in Switzerland after being prosecuted in the United States.

Alex Harutunian
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