Ripple’s 2026 University Blockchain Research Initiative Highlights Report features two research articles connected to UK CBT.

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“Profit or Deceit? Mitigating Pump and Dump in DeFi via Graph and Contrastive Learning” introduces PUMPWATCHER, a temporal graph-learning framework tested on 924,508 Uniswap transactions. The study achieved 92.3 percent balanced accuracy in identifying pump-and-dump activity.

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“How the interplay between power concentration, competition, and propagation affects the resource efficiency of distributed ledgers” develops a framework for understanding how mining-power concentration, competition and propagation delays shape fork rates, security and resource efficiency in proof-of-work systems.

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The report brings together peer-reviewed blockchain and digital-asset research from university partners across four continents. UK CBT thanks Ripple and the wider UBRI team for supporting research with practical relevance.

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