This list includes a selection of the latest research on cryptocurrency posted to SSRN in 2026. 

Cryptoasset Ecosystem in Latin America and the Caribbean by Roman Proskalovich (University of Cambridge, Judge Business School, Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance), Christopher Jack (University of Cambridge – Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance), Alex Zarifis (University of Cambridge – Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance), Diego Montes Serralde (University of Cambridge – Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance) and Damaris Njoki (University of Cambridge, Judge Business School, Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance) 

When Markets Never Sleep:  Intraday Liquidity Patterns and Volatility Effects in Cryptocurrency Trading by Aleksander R. Mercik (Wroclaw University of Economics and Business), Barbara Bedowska-Sojka (Poznań University of Economics and Business) 

OmniFormer: A Patch Transformer for Joint Long-Term Multi-Dimensional Cryptocurrency Time Series Forecasting by Trung Nam Nguyen (Ho Chi Minh City University of Economics and Finance), Nguyen Quoc Anh (Hitachi Digital Services), Son Ha (RMIT University), Phien N. Nguyen (Ton Duc Thang University), Trung Phan Hoang Tuan (FPT University), Anh N. Le (FPT University) and Nguyen Gia Chan (FPT University) 

Code Is Not Law by Carla Reyes (Southern Methodist University – Dedman School of Law) Andrea Tosato, (Southern Methodist University – Dedman School of Law) and Andrew Hinkes (New York University School of Law) 

Tokenized Gold by Campbell R. Harvey (Duke University – Fuqua School of Business; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)), Chen Lin (The University of Hong Kong – Faculty of Business and Economics) Daniel Rabetti (National University of Singapore (NUS); Harvard Business School) and Che Zhang (Tsinghua University) 

The Moneyness of Stablecoins by Christopher K. Odinet (Texas A&M University School of Law), Andrea Tosato (Southern Methodist University – Dedman School of Law) and Yesha Yadav (Vanderbilt University – Law School; European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) ) 

Pairs Trading in Crypto by Sasha Stoikov (Cornell Financial Engineering Manhattan), Dora Xu (Cornell University – Cornell Financial Engineering Manhattan), Shijie Shao (Cornell University), Yourui Wang (Cornell University) Tongshu Zhang (Cornell University) and Jinxuan Hu (Cornell University)  

Stablecoins and Banking: Deposit Dynamics, Financial Stability, and Regulatory Design by Lin William Cong (Nanyang Technological University; Cornell University)  

Regulating Decentralized Stablecoins: Comparing MiCAR and the GENIUS Act by Christopher K. Odinet (Texas A&M University School of Law) and Andrea Tosato (Southern Methodist University – Dedman School of Law) 

The Contest Between Central Bank Digital Currencies, Stablecoins and Tokenised Deposits: Which Will Likely Win, and Why?  by Ross P. Buckley (University of New South Wales (UNSW) – UNSW Law & Justice) 

Discover more research on cryptocurrency in SSRN’s Cryptocurrency Research Updates here.