Blockchain Academics: Crypto News, Research & Education

Payward Delays Kraken IPO to Mid-2027 at Earliest

Hadi Ghadban6h ago

Blockchain Academics Newsroom8h ago

Backpack Adds Micron and SanDisk Shares as Collateral for Crypto Margin Trading

Backpack Exchange has integrated Micron and SanDisk shares as margin collateral for cryptocurrency trading and launched 24/7 perpetual futures on MU, SNDK, SPY, and QQQ. The move bridges traditional equities and crypto, but raises questions about risk transparency and regulatory exposure.

ArbitrumDAO Earned $6.19M in H1 2026, With Robinhood Chain Driving 35% of July Income

ArbitrumDAO booked $6.19 million in income during H1 2026, with the Arbitrum Expansion Program licensing arrangement generating $360,000 in July alone from Robinhood Chain. The revenue model demonstrates DAO sustainability beyond treasury drawdowns, though concentration risk and adoption...

Ibrahim Rajab10h ago

Julie "Mooncat" Wolf10h ago

Hyperscale Data Shares Hit All-Time Low as Michigan Site Flips From Bitcoin Mining to AI

Hyperscale Data's stock sank to a record low Wednesday after announcing it is converting its Michigan Bitcoin mining facility into artificial intelligence infrastructure, a pivot valued at over $1.2 billion but met with deep investor skepticism.

Regulation

Blockchain Academics Newsroom9h ago

HashKey Joins DTCC Tokenization Working Group as First Asian Crypto Firm

HashKey Group has become the first Asian digital asset service provider to join the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation's tokenization working group, a body that includes more than 100 financial institutions and counts JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs among its members.

New Jersey Escalates Kalshi Sports Betting Fight to Supreme Court

New Jersey has petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to resolve conflicting lower-court rulings on whether federal commodities law or state gambling statutes govern sports betting contracts traded on prediction markets, with the case centered on Kalshi.

Hadi Ghadban10h ago

SEC Proposes First Transfer Agent Overhaul in 40 Years, Formally Recognizing Blockchain as Official Share Registry

The SEC has proposed the most significant rewrite of transfer agent regulations since the 1980s, explicitly permitting blockchains to serve as the official record of share ownership in U.S. securities markets. The proposal introduces new Form TA-2 disclosure questions and imposes fresh...

Hadi Ghadban14h ago

Alejandro Silva Ramírez14h ago

Thai Businessmen Sue Tether Over $42.4M USDT Freeze Without Court Order

Two Thai businessmen filed suit against Tether in U.S. District Court on August 31, 2026, claiming the stablecoin issuer froze $42.4 million in USDT from their wallets roughly four months before any court authorized the action.

DeFi

Alejandro Silva Ramírez12h ago

Nomura's Laser Digital Taps Keyring Network for Compliant DeFi Fixed Income on Euler

Nomura's crypto subsidiary Laser Digital has partnered with Keyring Network to launch institutional-grade fixed income markets on Euler Finance, positioning the Japanese banking giant as one of the first major traditional finance names to target DeFi lending infrastructure directly.

Alejandro Silva RamírezAug 28, 2026

Ethena Adds Equities and Commodities to USDe Basis Trade, Closes HIP-3 Market on Hyperliquid

Ethena is broadening the collateral strategy underpinning its USDe stablecoin to include equity perpetuals and commodities, while simultaneously shutting down its HIP-3 market on Hyperliquid and overhauling ENA tokenomics in what the protocol is framing as a push to reignite growth.

Alejandro Silva RamírezAug 28, 2026

Bullish Commits $100M to USD.AI for GPU-Backed Loan Products

Bullish has committed $100 million in financing to USD.AI, a lending platform using GPU hardware as collateral for digital asset loans. The deal marks a major institutional bet on computational assets as a DeFi lending primitive, following broader adoption of real-world asset lending.

Alejandro Silva RamírezAug 27, 2026

Virtu and Tradeweb Complete First Onchain Repo Trade Using Marshall Islands Digital Bond

Virtu Financial and Tradeweb have executed what appears to be the first onchain repurchase agreement using a sovereign digital bond as collateral, completing the full transaction cycle in under 10 minutes on the Canton Network.

Technology

Ibrahim RajabAug 27, 2026

Nvidia Earnings Beat and $12.9B Hugging Face Deal Push Nasdaq Futures Up 1.1%

Nvidia stock jumped 7% in premarket trading Thursday after posting an earnings beat and announcing a $12.9 billion acquisition of Hugging Face. Nasdaq futures climbed 1.1% on the news, arriving ahead of the Federal Reserve's Jackson Hole Economic Symposium.

Technology

Mystery AI Model Ox Alpha Beats Claude Fable on Benchmarks, Creators Unknown

A new AI model called Ox Alpha has surfaced with no identifiable creators, a free price tag, and benchmark scores that outperform Anthropic's Claude Fable. The model ships with a 1 million token context window, accepts video as input, and is available at no cost.

Blockchain Academics NewsroomAug 25, 2026

Technology

Inception Labs' Mercury 2 Outperforms Google's DiffusionGemma in AI Showdown

Inception Labs released Mercury 2, an AI model that outperforms Google's DiffusionGemma while preserving model intelligence during the shift from sequential to parallel processing. The development marks a significant architectural transition in the post-autoregressive era.

Alejandro Silva RamírezJun 21, 2026