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According to CoinDesk, cryptocurrency platform Bullish will provide $100 million in stablecoin debt financing to USD.AI to support loans collateralized by GPUs and other high-performance computing assets, advancing AI infrastructure development.
According to LatePost, general-purpose robotics company Sharpa has raised over 4.5 billion yuan in funding. Investors include corporate backers such as Alibaba, Meituan, Tencent, and JD.com, as well as investment firms like Sequoia China, Qiming Venture Partners, and Meituan Dragon Fund, bringing its post-money valuation to 22 billion yuan. This marks the first time Sharpa has publicly disclosed a financing round since its founding.
: Capital B has issued approximately 36.22 million share warrants (ABSA) to global institutional investors at an issue price of €0.58 per share, raising approximately €21 million, with net proceeds of approximately €19.9 million after deducting related fees. Strategic investors include early Bitcoin developer Adam Back and asset management company TOBAM, with Maxim Group acting as the sole placement agent. Capital B is a French listed company focused on Bitcoin reserves, primarily advancing a Bitcoin treasury strategy. The funds from this round are planned to be used to purchase approximately 270 additional Bitcoins, and upon completion of the transaction, its Bitcoin holdings are expected to increase to approximately 3,415 BTC.
According to Chaoxiang Research, a Morgan Stanley report dated August 25, 2026, indicates that SpaceX has announced a $100 billion Starbase project in Louisiana, planning five launch complexes totaling 10 launch pads, with construction set to begin in 2027 and the maiden flight scheduled for 2029. SpaceX has currently planned a total of 15 launch pads. Morgan Stanley believes the market has not fully appreciated the scale of Starship; even without including the new base, projected launches through 2040 would only require eight launch pads to sustain operations. Morgan Stanley maintains an Overweight rating with a $300 price target, offering 118% upside from the current $137. Louisiana has provided a substantial incentive package, selected for four key reasons: access to polar orbits, natural gas supply, political hedging, and government incentives. With a payload capacity exceeding five times that of Falcon 9 and full reusability, Morgan Stanley projects launch costs will fall to $500/kg by 2030 and drop below $200/kg by 2035. In Morgan Stanley's sum-of-the-parts valuation, the Enterprise AI segment carries a value of $165. The current stock price implies an extremely low single-digit multiple for this business line, while the orbital AI call option is priced near zero. SpaceX has completed its final Falcon 9 Starlink launch from Florida, with all future Starlink missions transferring entirely to Starship. Each launch's downlink capacity is Falcon
According to Bloomberg, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is attempting to revive the Initial Coin Offering (ICO), a cryptocurrency market fundraising model that was once highly popular. However, while some venture capitalists see this as a key opportunity to reset the market, attracting back investors who have long since exited may prove to be a more formidable challenge than regulation itself.
According to Yonhap, SK Telecom announced it will spin off the data center and submarine cable businesses of its subsidiary SK Broadband to establish a specialized AI data center (AIDC) company named "SK Horizon," raising a total of 3.08 trillion Korean won from global private equity firm KKR and a domestic IMM consortium. Following the transaction, SK Telecom will hold a 51% stake in SK Horizon, while KKR and the IMM consortium will hold 29% and 20%, respectively. In response, Mirae Asset Securities has raised its target price for SK Telecom from 120,000 Korean won to 150,000 Korean won, maintaining a "Buy" rating.
According to Reuters, Anthropic had planned to acquire AI chip startup MatX for $7 billion, but ultimately abandoned the deal. MatX is currently seeking approximately $4 billion in new funding. Anthropic is now in talks with several chip startups, planning to accelerate hardware development for its AI model Claude through self-developed custom chips to reduce reliance on Nvidia chips.
According to an official announcement from BitGo, the company has reached a definitive agreement with NYDIG to acquire its institutional trading business, adding capabilities in execution, derivatives, structured products, and financing to complement its existing federally regulated custody, settlement, and wallet infrastructure. NYDIG's institutional trading business serves institutional clients including asset management firms, hedge funds, corporations, and family offices.
IREN reported Q4 fiscal 2026 revenue of $137.2 million, roughly in line with expectations; adjusted EBITDA was $19.2 million, approximately 53% lower than expected. AI cloud services revenue increased quarter-over-quarter from $33.6 million to $70.5 million, while Bitcoin mining revenue declined from $111.2 million to $66.7 million. The company currently operates approximately $1 billion in ARR, with FY2026 capacity nearly sold out, corresponding to a contractual ARR of about $4 billion, and has signed a new multi-year contract with a frontier AI lab. Recent three-year contracts generate over $20 million per IT MW in revenue, with some negotiated prices reaching approximately $25 million. IREN plans to increase cumulative IT capacity from roughly 0.3GW in FY2026 to around 0.8GW in FY2027; existing cash, committed GPU financing, and customer prepayments total approximately $14 billion.
Odaily News: BitGo has announced the acquisition of NYDIG’s institutional trading business and related assets, incorporating derivatives, structured products, financing, and capital markets capabilities into its institutional platform. Approximately 30 NYDIG employees will join BitGo, and NYDIG’s institutional trading client relationships will also transfer to BitGo as part of the deal. BitGo will integrate the related business with its custody, trading, settlement, and wallet infrastructure. NYDIG will focus its resources on power generation, Bitcoin mining, and high-performance computing data center operations. NYDIG stated that its hash rate infrastructure development pipeline currently exceeds 3 gigawatts, with over 1 gigawatt expected to be ready for delivery in 2027 and 2028.
According to Bloomberg, insiders revealed that JPMorgan has initiated preliminary discussions with potential lenders to secure a $5 billion debt financing package to support Volta Infra Holdings Ltd. in constructing artificial intelligence data centers. Earlier this month, Volta AI completed a $300 million venture capital funding round at a valuation of $2.4 billion, with the goal of enabling more technology firms to access costly AI chip resources.
Odaily News According to official sources, anonymous Q&A game Chomp has completed a $3.6 million funding round, co-led by Jsquare and Blueyard, with participation from Accomplice, Big Brain Holdings, No Limit Holdings, Reverie, Caballeros, and other VCs.Chomp is a social game based on anonymous Q&A and prediction mechanisms, allowing users to answer questions and predict others' responses to uncover the public's true opinions, as well as their own cognitive biases toward others. In addition to its consumer-facing product, Chomp also applies these anonymous, well-labeled opinion datasets to scenarios such as AI model training and consumer research.Founder and CEO Kiko previously served as COO at Orca, a decentralized exchange on the Solana ecosystem.
Odaily News - PURR, a token related to the Hyperliquid ecosystem, rose approximately 15% after Hyperliquid Strategies published its "HYPE Treasury" and balance sheet updates.According to the disclosure, Hyperliquid Strategies has completed a $647 million equity financing round and increased its HYPE token reserve to 29.3 million tokens, valued at approximately $1.9 billion based on fiscal year-end prices—more than doubling from its previous size.The company stated that it subsequently invested an additional $773.4 million to acquire approximately 16.5 million HYPE tokens at an average purchase price of $46.77. The company said the continued expansion of its HYPE holdings is aimed at building a "fortress balance sheet" to strengthen long-term support for the Hyperliquid ecosystem.Market observers believe that sustained institutional allocation to HYPE assets has further reinforced expectations regarding the Hyperliquid ecosystem's value-capture capabilities, driving related ecosystem tokens like PURR higher. (The Block)
Odaily News, stablecoin protocol Ethena has announced four ecosystem updates, including buying back some locked tokens from early investors, adjusting the relationship between tokens and equity, launching a revenue buyback mechanism, and canceling VC monthly unlocks.The Ethena Foundation stated that it has completed buybacks of locked ENA tokens from certain large seed round investors who had sold ENA over the past nine months.At the same time, the Ethena Foundation has entered into a master framework agreement with Ethena Labs, transferring the intellectual property and value generated by the protocol to the Foundation, governed by ENA token holders, ensuring that protocol value growth does not result in residual cash flows flowing to Labs equity investors.In addition, an Ethena governance proposal has been launched to enable a "fee switch" that would use net income generated from various business lines under the Ethena brand for programmatic buybacks of ENA tokens. The proposal has been approved by the Risk Committee.Ethena also announced the cancellation of monthly unlock arrangements for future VC investors, eliminating market concerns about sustained sell pressure by releasing unvested tokens; team tokens will still follow the original lock-up and vesting schedule. These adjustments are aimed at further strengthening the binding relationship between ENA tokens and protocol value.
Odaily Odaily News: FUNDA posted on X platform that North American AI data center demand in 2027, measured by IT load, is approximately 35GW, while actual deliverable supply is only 16.5 to 23.4GW. The overlapping range of two independent supply projections shows a gap of 1.8 to 2.1 times between demand and deliverable supply, which serves as the core of this report.Demand was cross-validated using two methods, yielding similar results. Based on CoWoS capacity build-out projections, global chip-level electricity demand in 2027 is estimated at 44 to 49GW; based on platform-by-platform bill of materials projections, the result is 48.4GW. The current market discussion range is 40 to 60GW, and the report estimates global demand at approximately 50GW, with North America accounting for about two-thirds.Supply is largely locked in, and capital investment cannot change this. Grid interconnection pathways can deliver 11 to 14GW of IT load, depending entirely on which projects enter the interconnection queue before mid-2025; applications submitted today cannot contribute to 2027 supply. Behind-the-meter installations can add 5.5 to 9.4GW of IT load after accounting for overlap, but large gas turbine orders are already booked through 2031. Since it typically takes 4 to 5 years from order placement to commercial operation, turbines ordered today will only come online between 2030 and 2032.Power delivery is the binding constraint and sits upstream of all links that project developers can accelerate through capital spending. Permitting hurdles prevent 78% of the 43GW of shelved projects from moving forward. Over the past 12 months, power-related factors have caused 60% to 70% of project delays on a megawatt-weighted basis. Next is the shortage of certified labor: skilled electricians require 10,000 hours of training, and only about 30% of the current electromechanical, piping, and HVAC workforce is located in regions hosting 70% of projects. Modular construction can compress build timelines but cannot shorten queue times, only reducing the probability of commercial operation delays by 10% to 20%.Scarcity is already reflected in pricing. Annual recurring revenue per GW across the four comparison companies ranges from $8.3 billion to $50 billion, and NBIS has signed contracts over an 18-month period at prices 3 to 4 times its existing installed base unit pricing. The significant repricing in Q1 and Q2 has concluded, and the report expects market stabilization with modest increases starting in Q4 2026. As new supply comes online, rents on a generation-by-generation basis are expected to decline by approximately 20% to 30%, while utilization rates are expected to remain high.The four power procurement pathways correspond to four different risk profiles. xAI trades speed for doubled power costs and permitting risk, holding the shortest contract duration among the four companies; CRWV converts power delivery risk into refinancing risk; NBIS operates on customer prep
Volcengine unveiled its embodied AI solution at the 2026 World Robot Conference, providing end-to-end closed-loop data capabilities spanning data collection, processing, annotation, management, simulation, and training. Yang Liwei, Vice President of Volcengine, stated that the company is advancing the engineering deployment of core scenarios in partnership with the Seed team. Currently, 15 of China's top 20 embodied AI companies by valuation have established deep collaborations with Volcengine, including Shangwei New Materials, Xinghaitu, Qianxun Intelligence, Zibianliang, Daxiao Robotics, Qiongte Intelligence, and Jubrao Panshi.
Odaily News: Digital asset investment platform Rockawayx has acquired digital asset hedge fund Relayer Capital, incorporating its directional long/short strategy into its approximately $2 billion investment platform. Relayer Capital founder Austin Barack will continue to oversee the strategy and assume the role of Chief Investment Officer of the newly renamed Rockawayx Liquid Opportunities Fund.Rockawayx CEO Viktor Fischer stated that the fund will invest in highly liquid crypto tokens and digital asset-related equities, with a focus on identifying assets that are mispriced relative to their business fundamentals, market position, or growth prospects. The fund is currently open to new external investors.Rockawayx disclosed that the strategy's estimated net return from the start of 2026 through August 21 stands at approximately 70%, outperforming a weighted portfolio of Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana by 86 percentage points. Major contributing positions include Venice AI, Hyperliquid, Grass Network, Pump.fun, and Zcash, with investment themes centered on AI and tokenized real-world asset markets.The acquisition adds a directional liquid strategy to Rockawayx's venture capital and market-neutral businesses. Rockawayx also operates infrastructure and onchain liquidity divisions, noting that these capabilities support its team in identifying blockchain market opportunities across stages—from early-stage funding and token issuance to public market trading. (Bitcoin.com News)
According to Bloomberg, Matthias Reischke, Head of European Investment Grade Financing at JPMorgan, stated that bond issuances by leading artificial intelligence companies are testing the bond market's acceptance of price and premium levels. He noted that the market does not doubt these bonds will successfully complete their issuance; the key lies in the price at which investors are willing to participate. Reischke pointed out that AI-related debt deals will continue to test investor demand and market pricing capabilities.
Odaily News Recently, the Pre-IPO derivatives sector has seen rising momentum. Ave.ai continues to launch new trading pairs for stock-crypto contracts. On August 27, Ave.ai listed two popular Pre-IPO contract trading pairs: $ANTH and $SHEIN.It is reported that Anthropic, as the developer of the Claude large language model, is a highly sought-after unlisted company in the global AI sector. As its products continue to gain traction in code generation, intelligent agents, and professional research scenarios, market discussions around its IPO valuation have been intensifying. Meanwhile, cross-border e-commerce company SHEIN's listing plans are also a topic of shared interest in both traditional financial markets and the crypto market.Currently, trading $ANTH and $SHEIN through Ave.ai's contracts section is not restricted by US stock trading hours. Users can engage in leveraged long or short trading 24/7 based on business progress, financing news, and IPO expectations. Both contract pairs are now live on Ave.ai.
Bybit today added a Pre-IPO pre-market perpetual contract for Shein (SHEINUSDT), supporting up to 10x leverage. Users can trade its valuation ahead of Shein's official listing.