Last month, the Blockchain.com OTC Desk began offering access to the $SPCX perpetual futures market through its institutional trading desk, giving users a new way to express a market view on SpaceX ahead of its anticipated public debut.&nbsp;
$SPCX is not an IPO allocation, nor does it represent ownership of SpaceX shares. Instead, it is a crypto-native perpetual futures contract that allows traders to gain synthetic exposure to market expectations surrounding SpaceX's future public valuation.
As companies remain private for longer, many of the world's most valuable businesses now reach enormous scale before ever entering public markets. Yet despite significant investor interest leading up to an IPO, there are limited opportunities for investors to actively express a view on a company's public-market valuation before the company actually lists.
Products like $SPCX help bridge that gap.&nbsp;
A perpetual futures contract, or "perp," allows traders to take long or short positions without owning the underlying asset. Unlike traditional futures contracts, perpetuals do not expire and trade continuously, creating a real-time market for evolving investor expectations.
For traders who believe public-market demand may support a higher valuation, $SPCX offers a way to express that view. For those who believe expectations have become too optimistic, it provides a mechanism to position the other way. As new information emerges, the market continuously reprices those expectations 24/7.
In that sense, $SPCX is less about ownership and more about price discovery.
While investors, analysts, and private-market participants have debated SpaceX's valuation for years, perpetual markets create a venue where those views can be traded transparently and in real time. Rather than waiting for the opening bell, market participants can actively contribute to the valuation discovery process before public trading begins.
The $SPCX market itself is powered by Hyperliquid, one of the fastest-growing onchain trading venues in digital assets. Through Blockchain.com's institutional and wallet offerings, users can access that market through familiar crypto infrastructure.
Following SpaceX's public listing, the pre-IPO perpetual is expected to transition into a standard perpetual futures market tied to the publicly traded company. Separately, eligible users will also be able to access tokenized versions of the stock through supported wallet applications.
More broadly, products like $SPCX highlight how digital asset markets are expanding the ways investors participate in major capital markets events.
As traditional finance and digital assets continue to converge, markets that operate globally, continuously, and transparently are creating entirely new ways for participants to express views on the world's most important companies.

Anticipation is building around SpaceX's expected public listing later this week.

$SPCX: Bringing IPO price discovery onchain

As anticipation builds around SpaceX's expected public listing later this week, investors around the world are trying to answer a simple question: what is SpaceX worth?

Institutional investors manage risk continuously, regardless of traditional market hours. Yet, traditional market venues have not kept up with modern demands. To match the way today's institutions operate, we built a 24/7 perpetual trading feature routed directly through our OTC desk, providing rapid execution and reliable market access well beyond traditional trading windows.
In advance to pre-IPO names, such as this week&rsquo;s SpaceX, institutional clients can take a position ahead of the listing, as part of our perpetual markets offering. Through a single relationship with Blockchain OTC, trade 24/7 across equities, indices, commodities, FX, and pre-IPO names.
With 24/7 perp trading availability, we are now giving institutional clients a continuous execution channel for hedging and exposure management whenever volatility and liquidity conditions change. And because execution is handled through Blockchain's OTC desk, the experience to trade commodities, equity indices and global stocks, we&rsquo;re delivering fast-response desk coordination and execution quality that supports risk management from start to finish, all through the flexibility and security of DeFi.&nbsp;
When this matters most&nbsp;
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Options desks running gamma and delta exposure. Hedge deltas continuously through the weekend on 24/7 equity and index perpetuals, removing Monday gap risk on traditional venues.&nbsp;
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Multi-asset macro books. Adjust exposure across &nbsp;stocks, indices, commodities, FX, and pre-IPO names 24/7, regardless of trading hours in any one venue.&nbsp;
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Funds and treasuries with pre-IPO exposure. Express views on anticipated 2026 listings through continuously traded perpetuals.
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Whether institutional investors are hedging macro exposure, accessing pre-IPO names, or trading deep on-chain perpetuals, Blockchain OTC handles execution and settlement clients have relied on. To learn more or to explore on-chain agency execution, reach out to your dedicated Trader via WhatsApp, Telegram, or Signal, or visit&nbsp;<a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=https://blockchain.com/institutional">blockchain.com/institutional</a>.

The SpaceX pre-IPO perpetual is already live through Blockchain OTC.

Blockchain opens 24/7 institutional perp trading ahead of SpaceX IPO

The SpaceX pre-IPO perpetual is already live through Blockchain OTC. Additionally, users can trade stocks, indices, commodities, FX, and pre-IPO names around the clock.

As we cross the midpoint of 2026, H1 has been defined by execution, from securing major regulatory approvals to launching new products and expanding into key markets. Our UK FCA registration and new Malta hub reinforced a belief we&rsquo;ve long held: innovation and compliance go hand in hand. Together, these milestones strengthened our ability to serve customers through trusted, regulated infrastructure and laid the foundation for continued growth.&nbsp;
We&rsquo;ve maintained a nimble product-led strategy by incubating and shipping cutting-edge ecosystem products at scale, including rolling out SnapMarkets, an ultra-fast onchain prediction market, and scaling June, the industry&rsquo;s first privacy-first, finance-enabled and crypto-knowledge AI.
While we launched several institutional and retails products since January, our momentum extended beyond our products. From a 450+ billboard campaign across the UK and U.S. to our retail expansion into Ghana, we continued investing in both brand awareness and global access.
Here&rsquo;s a look at the regulatory, product, global and institutional milestones that shaped our first half of 2026.&nbsp;
Regulatory &amp; Product Momentum:
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<a href="https://www.blockchain.com/blog/posts/blockchaincom-secures-uk-fca-registration">FCA Registration in the UK</a>: Officially secured Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) cryptoasset business registration in the UK following a meticulous five-year process, enabling fully compliant brokerage, institutional, and custodial operations. The approval marks a significant milestone in one of our largest markets and reflects our longFCA Registration in the UK (Feb 10) term commitment to operating within clear regulatory frameworks.&nbsp;
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<a href="https://www.blockchain.com/blog/posts/blockchain-opens-malta-office-to-anchor-european-operations">Malta Corporate Hub Opening:</a> Opened a physical European headquarters in Malta, utilizing their MFSA MiCA license to passport regulated digital asset brokerage and custody services across all 27 EU countries and the 3 additional EEA countries. The new hub strengthens our European presence and supports our ability to serve customers under a unified regulatory framework.&nbsp;
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<a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/news/blockchain-com-peter-smith-urges-212341019.html">Advocating pro-crypto legislation</a>: We actively advocated for pro-crypto legislation, including the CLARITY Act. By framing robust regulation as a competitive upside, we are helping establish the transparent, compliant playing field required to unlock institutional capital.
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<a href="https://www.blockchain.com/blog/posts/blockchaincom-launches-global-self-custodied-perpetual-futures-trading">DeFi Wallet Perps Launch:</a> Partnered with Hyperliquid to integrate onchain perpetual futures trading directly into self-custodial wallets, giving retail users up to 50x leverage from their USDC balances. The launch represents another step in bringing advanced onchain tools to self-custody users.
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<a href="https://www.blockchain.com/blog/posts/blockchaincom-ondo-finance-launch-onchain-tokenized-us-stocks-across-europe">Tokenized Stock Integration:</a> We brought tokenized U.S. stocks and ETFs directly into European self-custody wallets, expanding access to tokenized real world assets and broadening the utility of self custody products.
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<a href="https://www.blockchain.com/blog/posts/blockchain-rolls-out-predictions-with-snapmarkets">SnapMarkets Product Launch:</a> Unveiled SnapMarkets, which turns real-time market movement into something you can interact with in seconds, not minutes. The launch expands our presence across emerging onchain consumer experiences.
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<a href="https://www.blockchain.com/blog/posts/blockchain-launches-perps-from-your-trading-wallet">Expanded Perps Account Funding:</a> Upgraded the derivatives experience by allowing users to instantly fund futures balances directly from their primary Blockchain.com Trading accounts, creating a more seamless path between funding and execution.&nbsp;&nbsp;
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<a href="https://www.blockchain.com/blog/posts/blockchains-got-a-brand-new-look">New look, same mission:</a> Rolled out a refreshed brand identity designed to better reflect the scale, maturity and global reach of the business today. While the look evolved, our mission remained unchanged: helping connect the world to the future of finance.&nbsp;
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<a href="https://www.blockchain.com/blog/posts/blockchain-expands-to-ghana">Ghana Continental Expansion: </a>Formally expanded localized retail crypto operations into Ghana, capitalizing on the implementation of Ghana's SEC final VASP Sandbox Rules.
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<a href="https://www.blockchain.com/blog/posts/blockchaincom-goes-big-local-and-unapologetically-british">"British is Blockchain" Campaign:</a> Launched a massive, 9-month out-of-home advertising campaign dropping over 464 hyper-localized, custom billboards blanketing major locations across London and the rest of the UK. The campaign celebrated our UK roots while highlighting the trust, compliance, and innovation that continue to define our business today.
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<a href="https://www.blockchain.com/blog/posts/blockchain-launches-first-billboard-ads-spanning-across-west-hollywood-dallas">US Billboard Push:</a> Coordinated with the UK campaign to launch regional billboard takeovers across massive U.S. markets, focusing heavily on Dallas and Los Angeles. The campaign increased visibility in key U.S. markets as regulatory momentum and consumer interest in crypto continued to evolve.
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<a href="https://www.blockchain.com/blog/posts/introducing-blockchain-wealth">Blockchain Wealth Launch:</a> Formally launched a bespoke, elite private-banking-style full-service program for high-net-worth individuals and high-volume institutional traders.
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<a href="https://www.blockchain.com/blog/posts/blockchain-launches-crypto-backed-loans-starting-at-19">Crypto-Backed Loans Rollout:</a> Officially launched low-rate collateralized global lending infrastructure, allowing retail and institutional clients to borrow against Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), and USDC with rates starting at 1.9%. The offering expands the utility of digital assets while providing customers with additional ways to access liquidity.
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<a href="http://l">Solana Explorer Launch:</a> Honored the company&rsquo;s 15-year legacy (dating back to its roots as Blockchain.info in 2011) by officially integrating Solana into the core Blockchain.com Explorer, expanding onchain transparency to one of the industry's largest layer-1 networks.&nbsp;
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<a href="https://www.blockchain.com/blog/posts/blockchain-eliminates-banking-bottlenecks-with-247-usd-settlement-and-new-global-tier-1-rails">The 24/7 Capital Institutional Push</a>: Eliminated banking latency by syncing global 24/7 USD rails with top-tier banks, while also unlocking a midnight settlement edge in Singapore.&nbsp;
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<a href="https://www.blockchain.com/blog/posts/blockchain-eliminates-banking-bottlenecks-with-247-usd-settlement-and-new-global-tier-1-rails">USD Institutional Off-Ramp Upgrades</a>: Partnered with Plaid to launch high-speed USD wire withdrawals, removing traditional manual friction and creating a seamless, cohesive pipeline for high-velocity domestic funding, trading, and capital reclamation.
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<a href="https://www.blockchain.com/blog/posts/blockchain-launches-yield-offerings-to-generate-yield-and-manage-risk-on-crypto-holdings">Strategic Yield Offerings</a>: Launched institutional-grade Covered Call and Cash-Secured Put strategies, allowing corporate treasuries, miners, and hedge funds to generate consistent yield and manage risk on BTC and ETH holdings.
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<a href="https://www.blockchain.com/blog/posts/crypto-to-crypto-swap-180000-pairs-quoted-by-the-blockchain-otc-desk">Crypto-to-Crypto Pairs:</a> The OTC desk launched direct crypto-to-crypto swaps across 180,000+ trading pairs. This institutional-grade feature removes the operational friction and market slippage typically caused by routing trades through stablecoins or major assets.
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Nodes-as-a-service: Our new Nodes-as-a-Service (NaaS) product provides institutions with a fully managed blockchain infrastructure solution, allowing them to access dedicated node connectivity without the operational complexity, engineering overhead, or maintenance costs of running nodes in-house.
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How compliance & technology shaped Blockchain’s first half of 2026

We were proud to support this year&rsquo;s Cayman Crypto Casino Night by donating through an in-kind corporate donation of four Dallas Cowboys tickets to help raise funds for the Cayman Food Bank, an organization providing critical support to families in need across the Cayman Islands. This year, nearly 200 attendees helped raise more than $75,000 for Cayman Food Bank, with our Cowboys tickets donation coming in at the highest bid.&nbsp;
As food prices continue to rise, the work of the Cayman Food Bank is more important than ever. The organization plays a vital role in helping individuals and families facing food insecurity by providing access to essential resources. The funds raised from Cayman Crypto Casino Night will help continue that mission and make a meaningful difference for those who need it most.
We have served as the official partner of the Dallas Cowboys since 2022 and we're proud to bring these two communities together. The Cowboys are special to us, and being able to share that experience in support of families in need across the Cayman Islands made our contribution even more personal.
The success of the evening was a true reflection of what can happen when a community comes together. Every person involved helped make Cayman Crypto Casino Night both impactful and memorable. We extend our sincere thanks to everyone who contributed their time, generosity, and support, and we are honored to have been part of such a meaningful initiative that strengthens communities and creates lasting impact.

Supporting the Cayman Food Bank at Cayman Crypto Casino Night.

Supporting the Cayman Food Bank

Giving back through community: Supporting the Cayman Food Bank at Cayman Crypto Casino Night

Hyperliquid has emerged as one of the strongest-performing platforms in crypto throughout 2026. While much of the Layer 1 and Layer 2 ecosystem has struggled to attract new capital, the HYPE token has rallied from approximately $20 earlier this year to new all-time highs above $70, making it one of the best-performing large-cap digital assets in the market.
Hyperliquid has built one of the most successful decentralized trading platforms in crypto, while also creating one of the strongest token economic models in the industry.
How did Hyperliquid do it? Simply put, the platform has paired the industry&rsquo;s most successful decentralized trading venue with its most aggressive value-accrual token model, evolving from a decentralized exchange into one of crypto's most critical financial networks. By abandoning general-purpose chains for its own custom infrastructure (HyperCore trading engine + HyperEVM smart contract layer), Hyperliquid delivers centralized-exchange speed fully on-chain.
Beyond crypto, the platform enables synthetic exposure to equities, commodities, and highly anticipated pre-IPO valuations 24/7. Unlike networks that rely on predatory inflation, Hyperliquid routes a significant portion of actual protocol revenue into an onchain fund that continuously purchases HYPE from the open market. Higher trading volume directly translates to a scarcer token.
Additionally, Hyperliquid has captured a large share of onchain perpetual futures volume exactly when the macro environment is shifting. With U.S. regulators beginning to incorporate perpetual futures into existing regulatory frameworks, the instrument is gaining meaningful acceptance.&nbsp;
Our Blockchain Institutional trading desk has been integrating with Hyperliquid and users around the world can use HYPE in our Earn Products, which is available globally and will soon roll out to U.S. users.&nbsp;
You can find, track, and buy HYPE tokens directly on Blockchain.com, or access high-performance perpetual futures trading natively inside the Blockchain.com app powered directly by Hyperliquid&rsquo;s infrastructure.

Hyperliquid has emerged as one of the strongest-performing platforms in crypto throughout 2026.

The rise of Hyperliquid

Blockchain.com Group Holdings, Inc. today announced it has confidentially submitted a draft registration statement on Form S-1 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the &ldquo;SEC&rdquo;) related to the proposed initial public offering of its Class A ordinary shares. The number of shares to be offered and the price range for the proposed offering have not yet been determined. The initial public offering is subject to market and other conditions and the completion of the SEC&rsquo;s review process.
This press release does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any securities. Any offers, solicitations or offers to buy, or any sales of securities will be made in accordance with the registration requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the &ldquo;Securities Act&rdquo;). This announcement is being issued in accordance with Rule 135 under the Securities Act.
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About Blockchain.com
Blockchain.com is connecting the world to the future of finance. The global leader in crypto services helping millions across the globe access cryptocurrency. Since its inception in 2011, Blockchain.com has earned the trust of more than 94 million wallets and over 42 million verified users, and has facilitated over $1.2 trillion in crypto transactions. Visit Blockchain.com for more information.&nbsp;
Media Contact: press@blockchain.com

Blockchain.com Announces Confidential Submission of Draft Registration Statement for Proposed Initial Public Offering of Class A Ordinary Shares.

Blockchain.com Announces Confidential Submission of Draft Registration Statement

Blockchain.com Announces Confidential Submission of Draft Registration Statement for Proposed Initial Public Offering of Class A Ordinary Shares

Most crypto-to-crypto trades aren't really crypto-to-crypto trades. They're two trades, with two spreads, two sets of exchange fees, slippage on both legs, leg risk between them, and the operational overhead of executing across multiple venues. For institutional clients managing size, that's a meaningful tax on execution.
The cost of the two-leg trade
The standard stablecoin route pays every cost twice. Direct swap pays once: one spread, one fill, one slippage event, with the desk pricing the pair directly rather than leg by leg.
Coverage that public order books can't match
Centralized exchanges list direct crypto-to-crypto pairs only on the highest-volume combinations. Mostly against BTC and ETH, with a small number against SOL. Everything else is a synthetic route through a major.
Through the Blockchain OTC desk, pairs are directly quotable across long-tail names, pre-listing assets, and combinations that don't appear on any centralized order book.
Execution without market footprint
Two-leg routes leave a footprint on public order books. Each leg telegraphs direction and size to other participants, which compounds at institutional scale.
With direct swap, the trade is priced and filled privately by the desk. The position moves once, with no information leakage between the sell and the buy.
The OTC infrastructure behind it
Direct swap is built on the same execution stack the desk uses for spot:
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Single counterparty, single onboarding.
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Aggregated liquidity from 20+ exchanges, intermediated through one desk.
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Firm quotes priced by the desk, not the order book.
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A dedicated Trader as the single point of contact for sizing, structure, and execution.
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When direct swap matters most
The cost savings of direct execution scale with the size of the trade and the obscurity of the pair. The clients who benefit most are typically:
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Funds and treasuries rebalancing across a basket of positions, where the two-leg cost compounds across every rotation.
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Holders of long-tail inventory looking to exit into majors or stablecoins without exposing the position to fragmented liquidity.
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Miners and digital asset treasury companies converting native token revenue into operating assets.
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Allocators building positions in non-major names without the volume capacity to do so on public order books.
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For any client moving size between non-majors, the cost comparison against the two-leg alternative is worth running. Your Trader can pull recent flow and price the direct route.
Reach out directly to your dedicated Trader via encrypted messaging, or visit <a href="https://blockchain.com/institutional" rel="follow">blockchain.com/institutional</a> to learn more.

The Blockchain OTC desk offers direct crypto-to-crypto swap across 180,000+ pairs.

Crypto-to-crypto swap: 180,000+ pairs

As institutional clients increasingly hold long-tail crypto positions, the Blockchain OTC desk offers direct crypto-to-crypto swap across 180,000+ pairs, removing the cost and complexity of routing through stablecoins.

Crypto-to-crypto swap: 180,000+ pairs, quoted by the Blockchain OTC desk

As a company, we obsess over new innovation and building for our users and clients, but today it&rsquo;s always nostalgic to take a look back at where it all began and bring a piece of that history into the present.
As a nod to our company heritage, I&rsquo;m excited that we have recently launched Solana in the Blockchain.com Explorer.
We started this journey by giving people a way to actually see what was happening onchain, and adding Solana is our way of staying true to those roots while keeping our eyes on the future.
The beginning of a transparent ledger
Long before Blockchain.com was a global financial platform, it was Blockchain.info. In 2011, it all started with a simple website built in a small flat in York. At the time, the concept was completely novel. Something new. A Block Explorer that allowed anyone, anywhere, to see the details of public Bitcoin transactions just by searching any address or hash id &ndash; basically a digital fingerprint for something that permanently happened.&nbsp;
Back then, if you didn&rsquo;t run your own full node, you had no way of knowing if your Bitcoin had actually moved. Blockchain.info changed that, providing the transparency that gave the early community the confidence to build. For years, we were the primary window through which the world viewed the Bitcoin network and our data today is used by institutions to track network health, mining difficulty, price and more
Growing the ecosystem&nbsp;
Since those early days of tracking hashes, we&rsquo;ve expanded in ways we never could have imagined. Today, we serve over 40 million verified users and have supported more than $1 trillion in crypto transactions.
Our product suite has evolved far beyond a search bar:
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Non-custodial and custodial wallets: We launched our non-custodial and custodial wallets, giving users the best of both worlds. We&rsquo;ve grown to become the largest non-custodial wallet holder in the world, and have reached more than 94 million non-custodial and custodial wallets around the world. .
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Self-custodial perps: We&rsquo;ve brought high-performance perpetual futures trading directly into our DeFi wallet, giving users up to 50x leverage while they maintain control of their keys.
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Crypto-backed lending: We&rsquo;ve built a robust lending desk that helps both retail and institutional clients unlock liquidity without selling their assets.
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Institutional business: We support over 1,500 institutional clients with deep liquidity, 24/7 white-glove service, and a massive catalog of 600+ tradable assets. From bespoke OTC spot trading and custom options, we&rsquo;re providing hedge funds, family offices, etc. the tools they need to move beyond passive holding and start actively deploying capital onchain.
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But even as we build these complex financial tools, we believe the core mission is still about providing transparency and accessibility to everyone and everywhere.&nbsp;

As a nod to our company heritage, I’m excited that we have recently launched Solana in the Blockchain.com Explorer.

Blockchain honors 15-year legacy with launch of Solana Block Explorer

The last 15 years have been a blur. One minute you’re looking at a whitepaper, and the next you’ve co-founded and led a company into the financial revolution.

After successfully launching perpetual futures funding from your<a href="https://www.blockchain.com/blog/posts/blockchaincom-launches-global-self-custodied-perpetual-futures-trading"> DeFi wallet</a>, we have now expanded the feature for a more seamless and simplified experience. Beginning today, users can now fund your Perps Account directly from your Trading Account balance.
By linking your primary Trading Account directly to our perpetuals platform, we&rsquo;ve stripped away the complexity. If you have a balance, you&rsquo;re ready to trade.
You can now fund your Perps Account directly from your Trading Account balance, and start going long or short on gold, oil, Tesla, NVIDIA, BTC, and 240+ other markets with up to 50x leverage. Crypto. Commodities. FX. Stocks. Indexes. All from the balance you already have.
We&rsquo;ve designed this experience to be as seamless as a standard send transaction. Here is the breakdown:
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Fund directly: Move as little as $20 from your Trading Account (or DeFi Wallet) into your Perps Account.&nbsp;
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Select your market: Choose from our extensive list of over 240 assets.
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Set your leverage: And then watch your position. Set a stop loss to limit downside.&nbsp;
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Whether you&rsquo;re hedging your portfolio against volatility or looking to capitalize on price movements in the tech sector, the tools you need are already in your pocket. Learn more&nbsp;<a href="https://www.blockchain.com/perps">HERE</a>.&nbsp;

Blockchain launches perps from your Trading Wallet

Today Blockchain announced the global launch of Crypto-Backed Loans, a new lending product that allows crypto holders to borrow against their digital assets without selling them.
The launch marks a significant expansion of Blockchain&rsquo;s consumer and <a href="https://wealth.blockchain.com/">Wealth</a> offering and positions the company as one of the first globally regulated crypto platforms to bring crypto-backed lending to clients at scale. Through its established international footprint, Blockchain.com is launching this product as crypto-backed lending surpasses more than $70 billion.&nbsp;
With rates starting as low as 1.9% per year, Blockchain is launching one of the most competitive crypto-backed lending offers available today. The product is available globally and is especially designed for large crypto holders seeking competitive pricing, high borrowing capacity, and a premium client experience.
Crypto-backed loans allow users to use digital assets, including USDC, Bitcoin and Ethereum as collateral to access liquidity. For long-term holders, the product offers an alternative to selling assets to fund major expenses, such as property purchases, business investments, tax planning, or other high-value financial needs, while preserving future upside. Permissible uses vary across jurisdictions.
The launch of crypto-backed loans reinforces Blockchain.com&rsquo;s position as a comprehensive financial hub. Operating across 70+ jurisdictions and having processed more than $1.2 trillion in transactions, Blockchain.com continues to expand its institutional-grade financial offerings while maintaining a focus on compliance, security, and transparency. To learn more, visit&nbsp;<a href="https://www.blockchain.com/crypto-loans">HERE</a>.&nbsp;

The company launches highly requested in-house lending feature for global users, delivering one of the most competitive crypto-backed lending offers available.

Blockchain launches crypto-backed loans

Blockchain launches crypto-backed loans starting at 1.9%

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The Bitcoin credit renaissance &amp; the new miner identity
At Bitcoin 2026, the atmosphere was defined by a credit renaissance, and dominated by conversations around Strategy&rsquo;s STRC offering. We saw the return of Bitcoin-collateralized lending desks, driven by a massive institutional hunger for yield and capital efficiency.
At the same time, a fascinating strategic split has emerged in the mining sector:
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Operators, like American Bitcoin, are doubling down on pure-play mining efficiency.
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While a growing share of public miners are repositioning themselves as the backbone of the AI revolution, pivoting toward High-Performance Computing (HPC) and data-center infrastructure.
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Taken together, these shifts point to Bitcoin evolving from a passive reserve asset into productive financial collateral embedded across lending, treasury, and capital markets infrastructure.
Reaching Consensus
Between the main stages, the real work happened in the rooms where builders and allocators met. We kicked off in Miami by hosting a private takeover at Dante&rsquo;s Hi-Fi. Against a backdrop of analog vinyl sets, the conversation shifted from the neon energy of Vegas to the deep-tech grit of Consensus. The energy was clear; the industry is entering its next phase of growth.&nbsp;
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The rise of agentic finance and always-on markets
Moving into Consensus, the narrative was dominated by one concept: Agentic Finance. The integration of LLMs, reasoning models, and autonomous AI systems into onchain workflows is no longer a "future" roadmap&mdash;it is the current requirement.
The market infrastructure is also evolving to meet this machine-driven speed. Trading conversations were centered on Hyperliquid and the realization that 24/7 perpetuals are now the foundational infrastructure for global risk transfer. In a world defined by geopolitical volatility, traditional market hours are becoming a legacy artifact. Capital is now always on, and the liquidity must be, too.
Programmable dollars and tokenized everything
Stablecoins are evolving beyond simple &ldquo;digital dollars&rdquo; into programmable rails for AI commerce and cross-border settlement. At the same time, we are witnessing the migration of real-world assets (RWAs) onto blockchain-based financial rails. Innovative structures like Apyx&rsquo;s apyUSD are demonstrating how preferred-equity dividend streams can be transformed into onchain dollar liquidity, yield-bearing collateral, and programmable savings infrastructure.
The grand convergence: Crypto, AI, and the global economy
The most significant takeaway from this marathon of insights is that crypto is no longer developing in isolation. It is converging with AI, global payments, and internet infrastructure at an exponential rate.
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AI agents won't just search for info; they will transact, allocate capital, and rebalance portfolios. Crypto wallets are the logical payment rails for machine-speed commerce.
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As value moves at machine speed, privacy and self-custody become foundational design requirements.&nbsp;
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The question is no longer if institutions will participate, but how fast they can integrate programmable onchain systems to gain an operational edge.
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Looking ahead
We are entering an era of an automated, always-on, high-frequency economy. The tech stack of the future is as much about AI reasoning as it is about the blockchain ledger underneath it.
At the end of this journey from Vegas to Miami, our outlook is resolutely bullish. The industry has moved past the noise, the bear is in the rearview mirror, and the infrastructure for a more efficient, transparent, and autonomous global economy is being laid today.
The shift is here. And we&rsquo;re ready for it.

As we just wrapped up a back-to-back sprint through Bitcoin 2026 and Consensus Miami, the main takeaway is that the bear is dying.

Biggest takeaways from Bitcoin 2026 and Consensus

As we just wrapped up a back-to-back sprint through Bitcoin 2026 and Consensus Miami, the main takeaway is that the bear is dying. Maybe slower than we would’ve liked, but the market is on the path to recovery.

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