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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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NFT   -   Aug 25, 2025 Meowfi: A Cat-Themed Tapper with Bigger Ambitions
Meowfi: A Cat-Themed Tapper with Bigger Ambitions

Meowfi, a cat-themed Telegram tapper, partners with Observers as it experiments with turning clicks into community. While most tapper games inflate tokens and disappoint users, Meowfi may serve as TONSWAP’s marketing engine — testing if millions of taps can power a real Ton-based DEX.

Sasha Markevich
Crypto Funds and Institutional Trading   -   Aug 21, 2025 A Media-Tech Firm Rebrands as TON Strategy, Echoing Bitcoin Strategy
verb rebrands as ton strategy like Microstrategy

TON Strategy Company, formerly Verb Technology, has rebranded as a Toncoin treasury, holding $713M in TON and targeting over 5% of supply. By staking its holdings and adopting financial engineering akin to Strategy’s playbook, it aims to turn crypto reserves into shareholder returns

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
Coins and tokens   -   Aug 15, 2025 After the Fart: The Rise and Fall of Memecoins
After the Fart: The Rise and Fall of Memecoins

From $GOAT to $FART, memecoins show how hype burns fast and budgets vanish faster. Market caps in the tens of millions may look like real businesses, but behind the joke lies sunk marketing spend, fragile communities, and the math of attention that always runs out of breath

Eva Senzaj Pauram
Stablecoins   -   Aug 13, 2025 USDC’s Circle Showcases Post-IPO Strength, Building Its Own Blockchain and Payment Networks
USDC’s Circle Showcases Post-IPO Strength, Building Its Own Blockchain and Payment Networks

Circle’s first post-IPO results show USDC supply nearly doubled YoY to $61.3B, market share up to 26%, and revenue +53% to $658M. The $1.2B IPO boosted equity to $2.37B, funding new plays like the Circle Payments Network and Arc blockchain in a bid to challenge Tether’s dominance

Alex Harutunian
Blockchain   -   Aug 05, 2025 Solana Leaps Ahead in MEV Race by Making Transaction Ordering Transparent
Solana Leaps Ahead in MEV Race by Making Transaction Ordering Transparent

Jito’s BAM transforms MEV on Solana from a private auction into a transparent, programmable marketplace. While Ethereum introduced PBS, Solana may now be a step ahead—embedding MEV handling directly into the protocol with greater flexibility and developer access.

Alex Harutunian
Bitcoin   -   Aug 04, 2025 Who Is Satoshi Nakamoto? The Unsolved Mystery of Bitcoin’s Creator
Satoshi Nakamoto Bitcoin creator candidates

Behind Bitcoin’s code lies a name—Satoshi Nakamoto—yet no one knows who they are. Was it a lone genius, a hidden collective, or even a state project? This article explores the clues, theories, and myths—listing every notable candidate for the most elusive figure in modern tech.

Alex Harutunian
Stablecoins   -   Aug 02, 2025 Native USDC and CCTP V2 Are Coming to Hyperliquid

Circle’s decision to bring native USDC to Hyperliquid underscores the chain’s rise as an institutional-grade DeFi hub, while advancing its strategy to make USDC the default stablecoin — trusted, redeemable, and seamlessly transferable across chains

Alex Harutunian
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