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ChainCatcher news, ETHZilla Corporation (NASDAQ: ETHZ) announced the acquisition of a 20% fully diluted equity stake in AI automotive finance decision platform Karus, Inc., with a transaction amount of $8 million (comprising $3 million in cash and $5 million in stock). According to the agreement, ETHZilla will integrate Karus's AI-driven loan evaluation technology into its blockchain infrastructure to enable the tokenization of auto loan assets. Karus's AI decision engine is based on more than 20 million historical auto loan data points, analyzing over 1,000 variables, and has processed more than $5 billion in auto loans. The first batch of tokenized portfolios is expected to launch in early 2026 and will be traded on the Liquidity.io platform.

ChainCatcher news, according to CoinDesk, BlackRock, the world's largest asset management company, pointed out in its latest report that U.S. federal debt will swell to over $38 trillion, leading to a fragile economic environment and the failure of traditional hedging tools, which will accelerate the adoption of cryptocurrencies by Wall Street institutions. The report emphasizes that increased government borrowing "creates vulnerabilities to shocks, such as bond yield spikes related to fiscal concerns or policy tensions between inflation management and debt servicing costs." Samara Cohen, BlackRock's Global Head of Markets, stated that stablecoins "are no longer niche products and are becoming a bridge between traditional finance and digital liquidity." The company's CEO, Larry Fink, described tokenization as the next generation of financial markets, a trend already reflected in BlackRock's $100 billion bitcoin ETF allocation, which has become a major source of its revenue.