Tagged: research

August 31, 2026 @ 5:36 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Security remains a core concern across cryptocurrency, yet losses keep climbing. CoinGecko’s 2026 State of Crypto Security Report, published in late August, found that platforms lost $3.63 billion in 245 documented incidents from January 2025 through July 2026. A small number of large events drove… Read More

August 28, 2026 @ 9:31 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Ethereum researchers have put forward an early draft that would rebuild the smart contract used to admit new validators, creating a path to quantum-resistant staking keys before today’s cryptography becomes a liability. The plan focuses on the deposit contract, the gateway through which operators lock… Read More

August 27, 2026 @ 5:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitcoin’s current transaction signatures rely on elliptic-curve cryptography. A powerful enough quantum computer could, in principle, derive a private key from a public key that has already appeared on the blockchain and then spend the associated coins. No one can say with certainty when such… Read More

August 27, 2026 @ 12:40 pm By JD Alois  |  

Firms using Regulation Crowdfunding (Reg CF) raised $23.1 million in the month of July 2026. This is a month-over-month decline of -19.3% from June 2026, which totaled $28.6 million, and a year-over-year decline of -33.5% from July 2025 at $34.8 million. More optimistically, there were… Read More

August 27, 2026 @ 8:35 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Fintech investment regained momentum in the first half of 2026, with the United States accounting for the bulk of international deal activity. KPMG’s latest Pulse of Fintech report shows global funding reaching $103.1 billion across 2,100 transactions, up from $72.2 billion in the second half… Read More

August 27, 2026 @ 7:35 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Younger consumers in the United Kingdom now place more confidence in artificial intelligence than in traditional media or online personalities when they look for help with investing. That finding comes from new research by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), which surveyed people aged 18 to… Read More

August 25, 2026 @ 3:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

A recent working paper from the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland sheds light on how American households view and interact with cryptocurrencies. Titled “Do You Even Crypto, Bro? Cryptocurrencies in Household Finance,” the study draws on repeated large-scale surveys of U.S. households to examine investment… Read More

August 25, 2026 @ 12:11 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Investment flowing into UK based financial technology companies reached its weakest point in at least a decade during the first six months of 2026. Capital raised by UK fintech firms totalled £1.8 billion (approximately $2.5 billion), representing a decline of nearly two-thirds compared with the… Read More

August 25, 2026 @ 10:38 am By JD Alois  |  

European Central Bank (ECB) researchers have used artificial intelligence (AI) to analyze Reddit posts and how they reflect retail investor optimism or pessimism. The publication by Fabian Wagner and Julian Metzler drew on a daily retail-investor mood gauge based on over 4 million (out of… Read More

August 24, 2026 @ 10:40 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

A recent academic analysis indicates that elevated carbon pricing within the European Union could be redirecting greenhouse gas emissions linked to cryptocurrency mining toward Russia. This dynamic represents a form of carbon leakage that current EU policy tools struggle to address effectively. The research examines… Read More

August 23, 2026 @ 8:36 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Grayscale Investments has examined conditions that may interest long-term investors evaluating whether to increase their Bitcoin holdings. The firm’s head of research, Zach Pandl, outlined several elements that appear to be coming together, while emphasizing that future price movements remain uncertain and that market timing… Read More

August 13, 2026 @ 1:36 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Ethereum researchers have put forward a draft improvement proposal designed to reshape how the network handles rewards for those securing it through staking. Known as the Tapered Issuance Burn under EIP-8361, the idea centers on gradually destroying a growing portion of the newly issued tokens… Read More

August 12, 2026 @ 6:15 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Cybercriminals have shifted their focus toward private equity firms and related financial organizations, employing voice phishing tactics to infiltrate systems and extract sensitive information for extortion purposes, according to findings from Google’s threat intelligence researchers. The activity stems from a cluster tracked as UNC6671. Despite… Read More

August 11, 2026 @ 12:53 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

OpenAI has experienced a series of high-level exits from its safety and ethics ranks in a short span of time. Chloé Bakalar, who served as the company’s head of ethics, stepped down less than twelve months after she arrived. Her departure follows those of Johannes… Read More

August 10, 2026 @ 3:39 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The tokenized real-world assets (RWA) ecosystem is rapidly approaching the $40 billion threshold. Recent figures from the industry tracker place the total distributed on-chain value of these assets at just over $38 billion, leaving only a relatively small gap before the next major milestone is… Read More

August 10, 2026 @ 8:24 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Token Terminal indicated that the market for tokenized stocks and exchange-traded funds has shifted away from heavy reliance on any one blockchain network. Recent figures highlight a more balanced distribution of market value across several major platforms, underscoring growing maturity in the on-chain equities sector…. Read More

August 9, 2026 @ 3:05 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

US-listed spot Bitcoin and Ethereum exchange-traded funds attracted a combined $1.1 billion in net inflows during the most recent trading week.  This performance stands as the most robust weekly result for these vehicles since April, according to the latest figures and data compiled by SoSoValue…. Read More

August 9, 2026 @ 1:20 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Sam Blackshear, co-founder and chief technology officer of Mysten Labs, the team behind the Sui blockchain, has announced his departure from the company to take on a new role at Anthropic focused on defensive security research. In a series of posts on social media platform… Read More

August 4, 2026 @ 12:57 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Banca d’Italia has published a report on digital currency asking the question: Are Stablecoins Efficient for Remittances? The goal was to determine if stablecoins provided an improvement over more traditional payments and transfers regarding cost and speed. The paper reviews transfers of $200 in… Read More

August 4, 2026 @ 8:55 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The European Central Bank (ECB) has recently indicated that Euro area businesses are taking up artificial intelligence, yet the process remains highly uneven, according to a recent analysis of firm-level survey data. Drawing on two specialized modules of the Survey on the Access to Finance… Read More