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AI hardware startup Hark announced the completion of a $700 million funding round, reaching a post-investment valuation of $6 billion. This Series A round was led by Parkway Venture Capital, with participation from NVIDIA, AMD Ventures, ARK Invest, Brookfield, Greycroft, Intel Capital, Qualcomm Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, and others. The new funds will be used to expand GPU infrastructure and accelerate large model research and development. (Bloomberg)
AI startup Hark announced it has raised $700 million in funding, achieving a post-money valuation of $6 billion. This Series A round was led by Parkway Venture Capital, with participation from NVIDIA, AMD Ventures, ARK Invest, Brookfield, Greycroft, Intel Capital, Qualcomm Ventures, and Salesforce Ventures.
TownSquare, an infrastructure platform focused on institutional yield and cross-chain lending brokerage services, has announced the completion of its new Pre-A round of funding, bringing its total funding to $16.25 million. This capital will be used to accelerate the institutional adoption of USD1 and other RWA assets on World Liberty Financial.
the Avalanche Foundation has announced the formation of an independent review committee to evaluate research proposals submitted under its "Call For Research Program" and provide up to $50,000 in funding for original academic research on the economics of decentralized networks. The committee comprises members from Ava Labs, the Avalanche Foundation, and external scholars specializing in economics, finance, and decentralized network design, aiming to select projects with long-term research value based on strict academic standards.The program covers two main research areas: crypto asset pricing and valuation, as well as validator economics and network security mechanism design. Evaluation criteria include research relevance, methodological rigor, innovation, feasibility, and the background of the research team.Emin Gün Sirer stated that Avalanche has been built on a foundation of academic research from the very beginning, and this program aims to continue that tradition while advancing the understanding and application of core economic issues related to decentralized networks. Committee members also include renowned scholars such as Campbell Harvey, Fahad Saleh, and Agostino Capponi, along with key members such as the Investment Director and Chief Economist of the Avalanche Foundation.
According to Businesswire, Solmate Infrastructure, a Solana treasury company listed on Nasdaq, announced the issuance of a total of 2,298,000 shares of Class B common stock via a registered direct offering. The offering price is $4.97 per share, raising approximately $11.4 million in gross proceeds. The transaction is expected to close around May 27, 2026, subject to customary closing conditions.
: AI live streaming prediction platform K25.ai announced the completion of a Pre-A strategic funding round with a post-money valuation of $100 million. This round was led by NewGenIVF, with a total financing scale of $10 million, including an initial investment of $2 million. K25.ai is currently exploring potential capital market pathways, including strategic transactions or reverse mergers, but emphasized that there are currently no definitive plans for a listing. (stocktitan)
According to PR Newswire, K25.ai announced the completion of a $100 million Pre-A strategic funding round, led by Nasdaq-listed NewGenIVF Group Limited (NIVF), which initially invested $2 million and secured an option to increase its investment up to $10 million. K25.ai stated that the two parties have also entered into an exclusive APAC distribution agreement, and K25.ai’s co-founders will join NIVF’s Board of Directors. K25.ai is an AI-native live-streaming and “watch-to-predict” platform targeting the APAC market and is evaluating potential listing pathways, including strategic transactions and reverse mergers.
Guy Wuollet, General Partner at a16z Crypto, wrote that the financial industry is undergoing a “digital migration” analogous to the cloud computing era—and blockchain is emerging as the core infrastructure driving this transformation. Wall Street’s adoption of blockchain is not motivated by the ideology of “decentralization,” but rather by practical needs: mitigating counterparty risk, improving settlement efficiency, and ensuring fair ordering mechanisms. “Digital assets,” in essence, represent the migration of the financial system’s underlying architecture onto blockchains—akin to how enterprise IT systems shifted from on-premises deployments to cloud services. When financial assets run on programmable, shared infrastructure, they unlock “composability”—a defining advantage enabling assets to be freely combined and extended like software. This significantly reduces development costs and boosts overall innovation efficiency across the financial system. This trend will propel traditional finance from “closed reconciliation systems” toward “on-chain coordination networks,” and blockchain technology will gradually become a standard component of the financial infrastructure layer.
According to The Block, Foundation, a Bitcoin hardware wallet manufacturer, has raised $6.4 million in funding. The round was led by Fulgur Ventures, with participation from Arche Capital. The company plans to accelerate its expansion from Bitcoin self-custody wallets into identity authentication, multi-factor authentication (MFA), and AI agent authorization. Following this round, Foundation’s total funding has reached $16.5 million. Meanwhile, Foundation has announced the full commercial launch of its flagship device, the Passport Prime, and opened its KeyOS platform SDK to developers. The device integrates a Bitcoin hardware wallet, FIDO security key, 2FA storage, secure vault, and 50 GB of encrypted storage.
According to TechFundingNews, crypto financial infrastructure firm Cycles has announced the completion of an $6.4 million seed funding round, led by Blockchange Ventures, with participation from Coinbase Ventures, Compound VC, and Primitive Ventures. Following this round, the company’s total funding has reached $8.7 million. Cycles aims to build a private clearing network for crypto markets and enhance capital efficiency through its “clearing network” mechanism. By leveraging zero-knowledge proofs and trusted execution environments, the network enables multilateral netting settlement—reducing counterparty risk and minimizing liquidity usage.
DDC Enterprise Limited, a Bitcoin treasury company listed on the New York Stock Exchange, announced an additional purchase of 200 Bitcoins, bringing its total holdings to 2,583 and further strengthening the crypto asset allocation on its balance sheet.The average cost of this transaction was approximately $79,496 per coin. The company stated that no new shares were issued for this purchase. Without equity dilution, the Bitcoin holdings per 1,000 shares increased by 8.4% to 0.0543 BTC.According to the disclosure, DDC's BTC yield since the beginning of the year has reached 36.6%. With its current scale, the company ranks among the top 30 publicly listed companies globally in terms of Bitcoin holdings. The company emphasized that the closed loop of "value-added financing + value-added allocation" has been completed and plans to continue increasing BTC holdings in the coming weeks and months. The specific pace will depend on liquidity and balance sheet conditions, rather than short-term price fluctuations. (Businesswire)
According to Bloomberg, the three founders of Manus are exploring multiple options to comply with Beijing’s requirement to unwind Meta Platforms Inc.’s acquisition of the company—including raising approximately $1 billion from external investors to repurchase the China-founded AI firm. Sources familiar with the matter said the three founders are in discussions regarding a funding round valued at no less than the $2 billion Meta paid; the founders may also personally fund the remainder of the transaction. If this plan moves forward, the next step could involve first establishing a China-based joint venture with relevant investors, followed by an IPO in Hong Kong.
on-chain card trading platform Fantasy.top has announced its decision to shut down after months of deliberation and exploring other options. Co-founder Kipit stated that the core reason for the failure was building crypto technology on top of a trading card game model, as the two are fundamentally incompatible. Crypto trading card games place financial value as the primary entry point for players, attracting investors rather than gamers. This leads the project to become about managing an economy rather than building a game. Furthermore, Kipit pointed out that issuing tokens before achieving product-market fit is toxic.In response to earlier accusations of refusing refunds, the official statement reiterated that since the business was self-funded through product revenue, investor funds were never touched. All pre-seed and seed round investors will receive full refunds. (theblock)
According to the official announcement, Bybit has launched pre-market perpetual contracts for SpaceX (SPCX/USDT), offering up to 10x leverage. SpaceX is scheduled to officially list on the Nasdaq on June 12 under the ticker symbol SPCX, with its IPO aiming to raise up to $75 billion. For more details, please visit the Bybit official platform.
BNB Smart Chain project IOTrader has announced the completion of a $3.8 million strategic funding round, led by Animoca Brands and ViaBTC Capital, with participation from Everwood Capital, CANDAQ, WAGMI Ventures, Credit Scend, and Web3 Labs. The project primarily focuses on integrating perpetual futures, prediction markets, custom event markets, and AI-assisted trading into a single wallet experience on the BNB Smart Chain.To date, the platform's cumulative trading volume has surpassed $1 billion, and its smart contracts have undergone third-party security audits. Its token whitepaper has been notified to the Central Bank of Ireland under the EU MiCA framework. (businessinsider)
Syndicate Labs stated that after five years of developing on-chain infrastructure for customizable Ethereum Rollups and sequencers, the company has decided to shut down due to a drastic contraction in the Rollup market. Syndicate Labs previously completed a $20 million Series A funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz in 2021.This decision caused the SYND token price to drop 21% in the past three hours, hitting an all-time low of $0.012, a 99.5% decline from its peak of $2.61 in September 2025.Additionally, Syndicate Labs stated that the Syndicate Network Collective operates independently of Syndicate Labs, so the governance of the SYND token will not be immediately affected. The decision to shut down was not influenced by the previous hacking incident involving bridged assets.
According to Bloomberg, prediction market platform Kalshi Inc. has added two new institutional investors, raising an additional $200 million and bringing the total funding for this round to over $1.2 billion. The newly added investors are Layer Global, led by Anton Levy, and the prominent asset management firm Baillie Gifford—both of which are investing in Kalshi for the first time.
sources revealed prediction market platform Kalshi has raised an additional $200 million from Baillie Gifford and Layer Global, further expanding the $1 billion funding round previously led by Coatue Management, while maintaining a company valuation of $22 billion.Earlier this month, Kalshi announced the completion of a $1 billion Series F round, with participants including Sequoia Capital, a16z, IVP, Paradigm, Morgan Stanley, and ARK Invest.Data shows that Kalshi's monthly trading volume in April exceeded $14 billion, with annualized revenue surpassing $1.5 billion. (Bloomberg)
According to The Wall Street Journal, Anthropic disclosed to investors that its revenue for Q2 2026 is expected to surge 130% year-on-year to $10.9 billion, marking its first-ever operational profitability. These figures were released as part of the company’s ongoing new funding round; upon completion, Anthropic’s valuation is poised to surpass that of OpenAI. Analysts note that this earnings outlook challenges the widespread skepticism about AI companies’ ability to achieve short-term profitability amid substantial expenditures.
Monitoring by Odaily Seer Prophet Channel shows that on predict.fun, the probability of "Variational's FDV market cap exceeding $500 million one day after opening" has risen to 57%, up 12% in 24H. Additionally, the probability of "Variational's FDV market cap exceeding $800 million one day after opening" has risen to 36%.Last night, Variational announced the completion of a $50 million Series A funding round, led by Dragonfly Capital, with participation from Bain Capital Crypto and Coinbase Ventures.Odaily Seer Prophet Channel continues to monitor the prediction market — seeing changes before they are priced in.