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According to Bloomberg, AI programming startup Cognition AI Inc. is nearing the completion of a new funding round, planning to raise approximately $1 billion, with the company's valuation expected to reach around $47 billion. People familiar with the matter said that due to investment demand exceeding expectations, the final fundraising amount could surpass $1 billion; the company has already received nearly $10 billion in investment commitments. Negotiations are still ongoing, and specific terms may still be adjusted.
US-listed Hyperliquid Strategies Inc. (PURR), the HYPE treasury company, has amended its ChEF Purchase Agreement with Chardan Capital Markets, increasing the total committed amount for newly issued common shares from $1 billion to $2.5 billion. The amended agreement introduces a new trading cap mechanism: once cumulative sales exceed $1 billion, if the offering price falls below $12.02 per share, additional issuances will be capped at 42,641,847 shares, representing 19.99% of the outstanding shares prior to the amendment. Any additional issuances exceeding this cap require shareholder approval in accordance with Nasdaq rules, aimed at mitigating the dilutive impact on existing shareholders caused by low-priced offerings.
Odaily News: BitcoinTreasuries.NET indicates that SATA, a subsidiary of Strive, has raised enough funds today to purchase 104 Bitcoin.
: This funding round was led by Gumi Cryptos Capital, with participation from institutions including Maven 11, Metalayer, Joint Effects, and Tribe Capital. Alkemya Metacore primarily holds approximately 7 million meters of ultra-high-purity nickel wire with a purity of 99.99% and a diameter of 0.025 mm. This asset has been independently verified with an estimated value of approximately $1.64 billion and is currently held in institutional custody in Lugano, Switzerland. The company plans to process the nickel wire into engineered mesh products for applications such as electromagnetic shielding, aerospace and defense, marine and desalination, power and industrial, semiconductors, green hydrogen, and precious metal recovery. It also aims to raise additional funds by issuing tokenized equity in the form of ALKN tokens. ALKN is issued by Alkemya Metacore SCSp in Luxembourg and is planned to be traded on regulated platforms such as Bitfinex Securities. The new issuance price is set at $1 per token, targeting institutional and professional investors, with the offering deadline set for October 15. Under the revenue distribution mechanism, investor capital will receive priority full repayment, along with a preferred return of 6% compounded annually. Profits from commercial operations will be split between token holders and partners on an 80:20 basis.
According to CoinDesk, DeFi protection protocol Firelight Protocol has announced an $8 million funding round led by Gumi Cryptos Capital, with participation from Maven 11, Metalayer, Joint Effects, and Tribe Capital. Incubated by DeFi infrastructure provider Sentora, which manages $2.4 billion in assets, Firelight is scheduled to officially launch this September.
According to CriptoNoticias, data from El Salvador's National Digital Assets Commission (CNAD) shows that 233 new tokens were registered in the country's digital asset market in 2026, with 182 concentrated between July and August, accounting for 78.1% of the annual total. The registered assets encompass tokenized stocks of tech giants including Apple, Microsoft, Nvidia, Amazon, Alphabet, and Meta, alongside financial institutions such as JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Visa, and Mastercard. The list also features consumer brands like Walmart, Netflix, McDonald's, and Coca-Cola, as well as tokenized versions of indices and assets such as the S&P 500, NASDAQ 100, gold, and U.S. Treasury bonds. Major issuers include MIO 3 MARKETS 1 (101), Monetae Securities (70), and NexBridge Digital Financial Solutions (27). Additionally, 35 tokens originate from local Salvadoran enterprises, covering corporate bonds, commercial paper, real estate financing instruments, and venture capital agreements.
Odaily News: Stablecoin payment company Kast has launched the KAST Business platform, integrating corporate accounts, payment cards, cross-border transfers, and stablecoin yield-bearing balances. The platform provides services through stablecoin infrastructure.Kast stated that businesses can receive funds through fiat virtual accounts provided by regulated partners, deposit supported stablecoins and crypto assets, issue virtual cards, and make local payments in more than 20 currencies. The platform's services cover over 170 countries and regions, though specific availability varies by jurisdiction. Idle balances earn up to 8% annualized yield, with up to 3% cashback on spending also available.Kast is a fintech company rather than a bank, and regulated services are provided by licensed partner institutions. In March, Kast completed an $80 million fundraise at a $600 million valuation, which will be used for product development, license acquisition, and expanding into North America, Latin America, and the Middle East. The company claims to have over 1 million users and plans to attract 1,000 to 5,000 active businesses by the end of 2026. (Cointelegraph)
According to Decrypt, South Korea's Gwangju Metropolitan Police Agency arrested four Uzbek citizens on charges of "terrorist financing," one of whom appears on the Interpol Red Notice list. The principal suspect is accused of, between August 2024 and April 2025, sending a total of 4,267 USDT via seven transfers to the UN-designated terrorist organization Katibat Tawhid wal Jihad (KTJ), while simultaneously receiving cryptocurrency from KTJ to purchase 11 used cars and 2 excavators (totaling approximately 170,000 Korean won, equivalent to roughly $121,000) for shipment to Syria. Police stated that this case marks South Korea's first involving the receipt of crypto funds from a terrorist organization and their return in the form of physical goods.
Odaily News, according to reports, U.S. Treasury Secretary Bessent recently urged Japan to raise interest rates to curb the continued depreciation of the yen. Analysts believe this highlights that traditional monetary policy is susceptible to government and external influences. In contrast, Bitcoin's monetary policy is preset by code, with new coin issuance following a fixed schedule and halving approximately every four years, offering greater predictability. In the short term, Bitcoin still finds it difficult to shake off shocks from traditional financial markets. If Japan's rate hike drives a rapid appreciation of the yen, low-interest yen financing trades accumulated over the long term could be unwound, potentially triggering sell-offs in stocks, bonds, and crypto assets. In August 2024, the Bank of Japan's rate hike strengthened the yen and put pressure on risk assets, including Bitcoin. On the technical front, BTC's 50-day moving average has been rising steadily and is close to crossing above the 200-day moving average, potentially forming a "golden cross." Analysts note that moving averages are lagging indicators, and the historical predictive performance of the golden cross as a standalone indicator has been unstable.
According to Bloomberg, remittance startup Felix Pago announced the completion of a $200 million Series B financing round, featuring an $87 million equity investment led by Andreessen Horowitz and a $113 million credit facility from General Catalyst’s Customer Value Fund. Felix Pago plans to leverage the proceeds to expand from its remittance business into other financial services, including lending and savings, targeting Latin American immigrants in the United States.
Odaily News - Bitfinex Securities, the tokenized investment platform under crypto exchange Bitfinex, has listed 5 tokenized notes, providing eligible investors with economic exposure to bitcoin treasury companies such as Strategy, Metaplanet, H100 Group, and Capital B. The platform has also listed Strategy's floating-rate perpetual preferred stock, STRC.The aforementioned notes are issued through the Luxembourg-based ORO (II) fund and managed by SICOS Securities. The underlying securities are held in custody by regulated financial institutions but do not grant investors direct ownership of shares in the corresponding companies. The products allow fractional investments starting from approximately $1 and support trading in USD, USDT, and Bitcoin, and are only available to eligible non-US investors.Bitfinex Securities stated that this marks the first time such products are available for secondary trading on a regulated tokenized securities exchange. Following the completion of a $50 million tokenized fundraising round for metals company Alkemya in August this year, the platform's total listed assets have surpassed $500 million. (Cointelegraph)
According to EU-Startups, Berlin AI-native energy platform Cloover announced the completion of a new funding round of €86.2 million (approximately $100 million), securing a €350 million guarantee from the European Investment Fund (EIF), bringing its cumulative financing total to over €1.12 billion (approximately $1.3 billion). Meanwhile, the company announced that it has officially achieved profitability three years after its founding, with annualized revenue surpassing €301.7 million (approximately $350 million). Cloover focuses on residential solar, heat pumps, and home electrification. By partnering with independent installers, it provides them with financing, software, and energy products. It currently covers five major European markets, completing approximately 20,000 installation projects annually, making it one of the top three residential energy players in Europe's largest energy markets. The company plans to further expand into the UK, France, and Poland. Additionally, Cloover officially launched its AI-native "neo-utility" model, which transforms each household into a virtual power plant through home energy management systems. By aggregating distributed solar, energy storage, heat pumps, and EV chargers, it enables real-time trading of power flexibility.
According to The Block, Nasdaq-listed Solana treasury company DeFi Development Corp (ticker: DFDV) announced plans to publicly offer up to $20 million in Variable Rate Series C Perpetual Preferred Stock, with a par value of $10 per share, an initial annual dividend rate of 13%, and the first dividend payment date set for October 1, 2026. The company plans to use the proceeds to purchase additional SOL and other crypto-related assets. Currently, the company holds approximately 2.33 million SOL, having increased its holdings by around 19,000 at an average price of $98.14 last week. DFDV shares rose 8.03% on Monday to $5.38, posting a cumulative gain of 110% over the past month; SOL appreciated approximately 41% during the same period, currently trading at $103.3.
According to Chaoxiang Research, a Bernstein report dated August 31, 2026, notes that Meta is poised to surpass Google Search for the first time in Q4 2026, becoming the world’s largest single ad platform. By mid-2024, market expectations for 2026 Google Search ad revenue growth were just 8%, but have since been revised upward to 16%, while Meta’s have increased from 12% to 26%. Year-over-year growth for the digital advertising basket in H1 2026 hit 21%, far exceeding the 6% recorded in 2022. AI is driving simultaneous growth in both ad pricing and impression volumes, a rare combination achieved by both Meta and Google Search. Yet, digital advertising equities have underperformed across the board this year, whereas e-commerce stocks have significantly outperformed. E-commerce firms have reaped the same AI-driven advertising tailwinds but at a fraction of the cost, sidestepping the massive AI capital expenditure burden and associated valuation discounts. Bernstein has assigned an Overweight rating to Meta, Pinterest, and Amazon, with respective target prices of $800, $28, and $320. Key risks include whether AI investments can sustain growth momentum and potential deceleration in the advertising market.
According to Bloomberg, venture capital firm 1789 Capital is leading a new funding round for prediction market platform Polymarket, with the round reaching a size of $1 billion and a post-money valuation of $21 billion. 1789 Capital plans to contribute approximately $300 million.
据官方公告，tZERO 集团与洲际交易所（ICE）于 2026年 8月 31 日宣布达成一系列合作协议，共同推进代币化证券市场建设。双方签署谅解备忘录（MOU），tZERO 将作为 ICE 旗下 NYSE 关联数字交易平台的首席设计合作伙伴，负责开发数字转移代理及经纪商-交易商基础设施，以支持代币化证券交易的链上结算。 ICE 同时宣布参与 tZERO 最新一轮融资，并获得 tZERO 区块链专利组合的授权许可，该专利组合涵盖 23 个专利族、103 项专利，覆盖合规转移逻辑、可升级智能合约框架等核心技术。此外，双方还将评估在 ICE 清算所中使用 tZERO 代币化资产进行抵押管理的可能性。
Odaily News - Investment firm Dragoneer Investment Group has raised approximately $1 billion for a new continuation fund, using its stakes in star assets such as OpenAI, SpaceX, Databricks, and wealth management firm Creative Planning as leverage. However, sources familiar with the matter revealed that Dragoneer's initial fundraising target was $2 billion, and it remains unclear which specific assets are included in the final $1 billion fund.It is understood that Dragoneer aims to hold some of its existing assets for a longer period through the continuation fund, thereby enhancing the fund's appeal to investors. This fundraising effort also reflects that, as the valuations of popular private tech companies like OpenAI and SpaceX continue to attract market attention, holding early-stage or private equity in these companies is becoming a key bargaining chip for asset management institutions in fundraising and asset restructuring. (Bloomberg)
Odaily News, according to Bitcoin News monitoring, OCEAN operator Mummolin Inc. and co-founder Luke Dashjr issued a joint statement on August 29, agreeing to part ways. Luke Dashjr resigned as OCEAN Chairman, Chief Technology Officer, and Director, and Mummolin bought back all of his equity. Neither party disclosed the transaction amount nor Luke Dashjr's previous shareholding ratio. Both parties stated that the split stemmed from differing visions regarding the future direction of Bitcoin mining.The BIP-110 dispute subsequently escalated into a split of the Bitcoin chain. BIP-110, also known as the "Data Carve-out Temp Soft Fork," aims to restrict the use of Bitcoin transactions to store non-financial data, including content related to Ordinals. Before the activation period began, only 51 out of 2,016 blocks supported the proposal, accounting for 2.53%, falling below the 55% threshold required for activation.On August 8, nodes enforcing BIP-110 split from the Bitcoin main chain by rejecting blocks that did not support the proposal. On that day, the minority chain only produced 2 blocks before halting; since then, the chain mined 6 more blocks, bringing the total to 8 blocks. The initial alternative chain blocks were mined by the Roughnecks mining organization using OCEAN infrastructure.On August 10, other Bitcoin developers removed Luke Dashjr from the editor list of the Bitcoin Improvement Proposal repository, citing his involvement in BIP-110 and its editorial process. Luke Dashjr disputed this and stated that day that he would temporarily leave OCEAN to focus on Bitcoin and open-source development.Luke Dashjr is currently advancing a new project called CONVOY, using the X account @CONVOY_Mining. This project will continue his push for the decentralization of Bitcoin mining, though its specific structure and launch arrangements have not yet been announced. The X account was created in August 2026 and currently has 0 posts and fewer than 500 followers.OCEAN was founded by Mummolin and co-founded by Luke Dashjr in 2023, and previously secured a $6.2 million seed round led by Jack Dorsey. OCEAN operates under a non-custodial model, with mining rewards paid directly to miners rather than being held and distributed by the pool. OCEAN also developed the DATUM protocol, designed to give individual miners greater control over the transactions included in blocks they participate in mining. OCEAN stated that it will continue operating its transparent non-custodial mining pool and the DATUM protocol after Luke Dashjr's departure. According to Mempool.space data, OCEAN is still mining on the Bitcoin main chain.The change proposed by Luke Dashjr altered the proof-of-work algorithm of the alternative chain to Blake2b, which went live on the new chain at approximately 3:00 AM EST on August 30, making it a hard fork of the Bitcoin main chain. The new chain continued from block 961,639, which was mined before the chain stalled, and reduced mining difficulty fr
Odaily News: Japan's Financial Services Agency (FSA) has applied to exempt trust-type stablecoins from mandatory tax filing requirements starting from fiscal year 2027, including trust reports itemizing beneficiary names and incomes, as well as calculation breakdowns. The agency stated that trust-type stablecoins circulate among a large number of users, with frequent and high-volume transactions, and holders cannot derive income from them.If approved by the legislature, the tax exemption could take effect on April 1, 2027, the start of Japan's fiscal year 2027. In July, Japan's parliament passed an amendment classifying crypto assets as financial assets under the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act (FIEA). (Cointelegraph)
According to on-chain analyst Willy Woo (@willywoo), approximately 5% of the global population currently holds BTC, surpassing the 4.5% who hold gold and the 4% who hold the S&P 500. Woo noted that if BTC adoption remains at 5%, it is merely a conventional financial asset; however, if it rises to 50%, it could enable a separation between currency and the state.