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Kraken Parent Payward Delays IPO to Second Quarter of 2027

Payward, Kraken's parent company, will not pursue an IPO until at least Q2 2027.

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Payward, the parent company of cryptocurrency exchange Kraken, will not pursue an initial public offering until the second quarter of 2027 at the earliest. [1] The REAP system was presented for the AKBC Shared Task 2026 on constructing knowledge bases from language models in a closed-book setting. [2] CoinDesk reported on Wednesday that two people familiar with the matter confirmed the delay of Payward's IPO plans. [3] Payward confidentially filed a draft S-1 registration statement with the SEC in November 2025. [4] Payward raised $800 million at a $20 billion valuation in November 2025, which included a $200 million investment from Citadel Securities. [5] On the test set, the REAP system, built on the Mistral-Small-24B-Instruct-2501 model, achieves a macro-F1 score of 0.62. [6] The REAP system combines structured chain-of-thought reasoning, relation-specific query strategies, and a reasoning-based empty-set gate to elicit parametric knowledge. [7] The REAP system operates subject to a budget of at most 32 billion parameters and requires no model fine-tuning. [8]
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  1. Payward, the parent company of cryptocurrency exchange Kraken, will not pursue an initial public offering until the second quarter of 2027 at the earliest. · Unchained
  2. The REAP system was presented for the AKBC Shared Task 2026 on constructing knowledge bases from language models in a closed-book setting. · arXiv.org
  3. CoinDesk reported on Wednesday that two people familiar with the matter confirmed the delay of Payward's IPO plans. · Unchained
  4. Payward confidentially filed a draft S-1 registration statement with the SEC in November 2025. · Unchained
  5. Payward raised $800 million at a $20 billion valuation in November 2025, which included a $200 million investment from Citadel Securities. · Unchained
  6. On the test set, the REAP system, built on the Mistral-Small-24B-Instruct-2501 model, achieves a macro-F1 score of 0.62. · arXiv.org
  7. The REAP system combines structured chain-of-thought reasoning, relation-specific query strategies, and a reasoning-based empty-set gate to elicit parametric knowledge. · arXiv.org
  8. The REAP system operates subject to a budget of at most 32 billion parameters and requires no model fine-tuning. · arXiv.org
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