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prediction market platform Polymarket has disclosed the completion of its first institutional on-chain block trade. The six-figure USD transaction was executed on the Polygon blockchain by digital asset broker FalconX and AI risk settlement infrastructure startup Anera Labs, targeting contracts related to the Ornn Compute Price Index, which tracks the rental price of NVIDIA H100 GPU chips. Polymarket stated that this is the first institutional on-chain block trade in the prediction market field. Going forward, FalconX will also serve as the exclusive market maker for block trades on the Polymarket platform to support institutional clients' liquidity needs and price discovery. (CNBC)
: Axe Compute (NASDAQ: AGPU) has announced that the underlying infrastructure provider for its $260 million enterprise-level contract is Aethir, a globally distributed GPU infrastructure network. It is reported that Axe Compute has confirmed receipt of the first payment of $43 million under this contract. Aethir has officially initiated the compute delivery process for the corresponding cluster of 2,304 NVIDIA B300 GPUs, with a target go-live date set for the third quarter of 2026.The contract adopts a 36-month take-or-pay structure, and is expected to generate approximately $21 million in revenue per quarter after going live.
Gracy Chen, CEO of Bitget, announced that Bitget’s new product, RealityFi (@RealityFi_xyz), directly connects to licensed broker-dealers registered with FINRA and members of the Securities Investor Protection Corporation (SIPC). This enables orders to flow straight into the native order books of NASDAQ and the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), fundamentally resolving the liquidity fragmentation and severe slippage issues plaguing existing tokenized U.S. equities products—and delivering “what you see is what you get” execution prices. The product supports 24×5 trading hours, with plans to expand to 24×7 continuous trading. Pre-market and after-hours liquidity matches that of established brokers, utilizing compliant off-market channels. RealityFi is a pure spot product—offering no leverage and zero liquidation risk. In its initial phase, over 30 U.S. equity tokens will be listed, scaling to more than 100 within one to two weeks. These will include popular stocks such as Apple, Tesla, and NVIDIA, as well as major index ETFs like SPY and QQQ. The corresponding rTokens will begin rolling out in early June.
amidst the US earnings season and the continuous advancement of AI narratives by tech giants, according to official sources from Bitget, the platform has recently added 10 new US stock contract targets. As a result, Bitget's Universal Exchange (UEX) now supports 263 US stock tokens and 81 US stock contracts. The total number of US stock-related assets tradable across the entire platform has exceeded 340.This week enters a period of密集 earnings reports and macroeconomic data releases. Through continuous expansion, Bitget aims to provide users with a wide range of cross-market asset allocation channels.3 Key Focus Targets This Week:• NVDA (NVIDIA): Will release Q1 earnings after the US market closes on May 20. The implied volatility from the options market suggests a potential single-day swing of over 7.5%. As the core of AI computing power, its performance will directly impact the overall valuation trend of the tech sector.• GOOGL (Google): Recently, at its I/O conference, Google intensively released multiple new products such as Gemini 3.5 and AI agents. The market is closely monitoring the subsequent pace of commercial implementation and revenue monetization capabilities.• WMT (Walmart): Will release Q1 earnings before the market opens on May 21. As a retail giant, Walmart's resilience during the consumer downturn cycle is under significant scrutiny. The earnings results and guidance will directly influence investors' assessment of full-year growth expectations and the stock's short-term performance.
According to the latest 13F filing, as of the end of Q1 2026, NVIDIA’s proprietary investment portfolio held stocks with a total market value of approximately $18.374 billion—significantly up from $13 billion at the end of 2025. The portfolio is highly concentrated in AI-ecosystem-related names (semiconductors, cloud computing infrastructure, EDA, optics, networking, and biopharmaceuticals). Notably, in Q1, NVIDIA increased its stake in CoreWeave by 94.5% to approximately 47.21 million shares, raising the holding’s value by roughly $1.78 billion. It also initiated new positions in Coherent Corp. (approximately 7.8 million shares) and Generate Biomedicines (approximately 833,000 shares). Intel remains NVIDIA’s largest holding, with over 214.7 million shares. This reflects Jensen Huang’s strategic initiative to support the entire AI ecosystem—from chips and cloud computing to networking, photonics, and drug discovery.
U.S. President Trump concluded his visit to China, and the China-U.S. talks released positive signals, boosting market expectations for trade easing, supply chain stability, and technological cooperation. WEEX Labs noted that U.S. equities linked to the accompanying business delegation—including Tesla (TSLA), NVIDIA (NVDA), and Apple (AAPL)—continued their upward trend, reflecting heightened market optimism regarding long-term opportunities arising from AI collaboration, access to the Chinese market, and supply chain optimization. Meanwhile, news of the U.S. rejecting Iran’s ceasefire proposal may further push up energy prices, exacerbating global inflation and volatility in risk assets. Currently, the WEEX TradFi segment supports tokenized trading of U.S. equities, gold, crude oil, and other assets, and has launched a TradFi Spot Trading Competition with a $100,000 prize pool—enabling users to conduct global asset allocation and event-driven hedging in one integrated platform.
today, the RWA trading platform MSX Maitong officially launched spot trading for the US stock token ($CBRS.M) of AI computing unicorn Cerebras. Market data shows that $CBRS.M opened at $350, surged to a high of $386.34 during the session, and triggered an upward circuit breaker on its first day.It is reported that Cerebras is the first Pre-IPO core target launched by MSX. The locked subscription price for early participants was only $100.35, and the current actual yield has exceeded 300%. From $100.35 to $350: MSX's first issuance of Cerebras successfully exited, completing a historic closed loop for on-chain RWA. It is one of the very few platforms in the entire network that allows retail investors to genuinely access subscription quotas for top tech stocks and successfully cash out.Cerebras is regarded by the industry as "NVIDIA's strongest challenger," possessing the world's largest AI training chip and recently signing a strategic agreement with OpenAI worth over $20 billion.
Aethir Claw has officially launched its Model-as-a-Service (MaaS) layer, integrating API credits for cutting-edge large models from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and others directly into a single platform subscription. Users no longer need to individually register with external LLM providers or manage API keys; one payment covers the entire stack from VPS hosting to model inference.Going forward, Aethir Claw plans to deploy mainstream models on Aethir’s own GPU network, achieving true data sovereignty at the inference layer.Aethir is a leading platform in decentralized GPU cloud computing infrastructure. To date, the network has deployed over 430,000 GPU containers across more than 200 nodes in 94 countries globally, accumulated nearly 1.8 billion hours of computing time, and served over 150 partners and enterprise clients. Its GPU hardware spans the NVIDIA Hopper and Blackwell generations, including the H100, H200, B200, and B300.
According to the official announcement, the second asset launched on Bitget IPO Prime is preOPAI—a digital token issued by the regulated issuer Republic on the Solana blockchain, designed to mirror OpenAI’s post-IPO economic performance on a 1:1 basis. As the world’s leading consumer AI provider, OpenAI reports approximately 900 million weekly active users, according to official data. Its most recent funding round raised $122 billion, with participants including Microsoft, NVIDIA, Amazon, and SoftBank. Bitget IPO Prime operates on a subscription model, whereby users receive subscription quotas based on their account tier. Upon completion of token allocation, users may trade the tokens on the upcoming spot market. Alternatively, after the lock-up period for preOPAI’s underlying debt assets expires, the issuer will authorize Bitget to convert users’ holdings into either stock tokens or USDT, referencing the underlying company’s (OpenAI’s) publicly traded stock price. IPO Prime Details: • OpenAI Implied Valuation: $898.21 billion • Total IPO Prime Subscriptions: 29,082 • Total Subscription Value: $21,084,450 • Subscription Price: 1 preOPAI = $725 • Accepted Subscription Currencies: USDT or USDGO • Total Subscription Pool Cap: $300,000,000
According to GlobeNewswire, IREN, a Nasdaq-listed company, released its latest financial results and disclosed that it has signed a $3.4 billion AI cloud contract with NVIDIA. Under the agreement, IREN will deploy air-cooled Blackwell GPU infrastructure for NVIDIA over a five-year term. The financial report also indicates that IREN is accelerating its transition from Bitcoin mining to AI cloud services. Construction of the data center related to its $9.7 billion contract with Microsoft is underway. As of April 30, IREN held $2.6 billion in cash. Revenue for the third quarter of fiscal year 2026 totaled $144.8 million, down from $184.7 million in the prior quarter. The company reported a net loss of $247.8 million, primarily driven by non-cash impairments related to the retirement of mining equipment.
According to official announcements, xStocks—a tokenized U.S. equities platform—has launched its Unified Execution Layer, xChange, on Mantle. Powered by Atomic RFQ, xChange locks in optimal pricing and delivers deep liquidity—ensuring no partial fills and zero slippage. Users can now trade 10 tokenized U.S. equities—including Tesla (TSLAx), NVIDIA (NVDAx), Apple (AAPLx), and Meta (METAx)—24/7 via the Fluxion platform, with TradFi liquidity during market hours and on-chain liquidity outside of market hours—no waiting required. Meanwhile, from issuance through trading to redemption, Mantle is building a unified distribution layer by integrating Bybit’s CeFi liquidity, Fluxion’s DeFi execution, and xStocks’ Atomic RFQ into a composable stack—delivering a CeDeFi-standard experience engineered for institutional-grade precision trading.
According to an official announcement, OpenAI has partnered with AMD, Broadcom, Intel, Microsoft, and NVIDIA to launch Multipath Reliable Connection (MRC), a new open networking protocol designed to help large AI training clusters operate at higher speeds and with greater reliability, while reducing GPU time waste.
BNB Chain officially announced the launch of the tokenized stock platform xStocks, with the first batch opening over 50 tokenized US stocks and ETFs, including Apple, Tesla, NVIDIA, and the S&P 500 ETF, with more than 100 additional assets to be added in the coming weeks. Users can participate with a minimum of $10 and enjoy 24/5 uninterrupted trading.Trading is now available directly on PancakeSwap and CowSwap, with 1inch integration coming soon. These tokenized stocks can also be used as collateral for loans and integrated into structured yield strategies. Further integration with Venus Protocol and Flux through Chainlink is planned.BNB Chain has become the second-largest RWA public chain globally, with on-chain RWA assets totaling $3.8 billion, approximately 45,000 holders, and a transfer volume of $1.17 billion.
NVIDIA announced on X platform that it has launched the open-source multimodal model Nemotron 3 Nano Omni today. The model adopts a 30B-A3B mixture-of-experts (MoE) architecture, supports a 256K context window, and can uniformly process video, audio, image, and text inputs. Compared to open-source omnimodal models at a similar interaction level, this model achieves up to a 9x increase in throughput, significantly reducing inference costs and improving scalability. Nemotron 3 Nano Omni is now available on Hugging Face, OpenRouter, and NVIDIA NIM, and has been adopted by enterprises including Aible, Applied Scientific Intelligence, and H Company.
in the Gate Prediction Market event concerning the "Second-Largest Company by the End of April," Alphabet's current probability has reached 99%, significantly领先 over other options such as Apple, NVIDIA, Microsoft, Amazon, Tesla, and Saudi Aramco, indicating a highly concentrated market expectation. In terms of related asset trading, Gate's Perpetual Contract Stock Section has listed several popular tech stock perpetual contracts, including GOOGLXUSDT, NVDAXUSDT, and TSLAXUSDT, providing users with diverse participation pathways from event assessment to asset trading.Meanwhile, the Gate Prediction Market has completed multiple functional upgrades: added a one-stop search and intelligent recommendation mechanism, supporting keyword quick retrieval and category browsing; enhanced historical billing and filtering functions, making fund flows clearer and more traceable; added a multi-level category and breaking news section on the homepage to help users efficiently capture hot opportunities; and expanded the sports market to include more derivative gameplay, enhancing strategic flexibility while lowering participation barriers.Currently, Gate's performance within the Polymarket partnership channel continues to improve, with its market share ranking among the top two in the industry. Users can access the prediction market directly through the Gate App, enter the Polymarket page via the Alpha feature on the platform's homepage, and use USDT in their exchange account to participate in event predictions. This integration marks a key step for Gate in merging the crypto trading ecosystem with the prediction market, offering users a diversified market experience from expectation assessment to trading participation.
Nasdaq-listed Axe Compute Inc. (NASDAQ: AGPU) announced today that it has signed a 36-month AI infrastructure contract valued at approximately $260 million with an enterprise client. The deployment includes a dedicated cluster of 2,304 NVIDIA B300 GPUs and a high-speed AI storage system, scheduled to go live in Q3 2026 at a Tier 3 data center in the United States. This is Axe Compute’s largest single enterprise contract since its founding. Axe Compute’s underlying compute infrastructure is powered by Aethir’s decentralized GPU cloud. Daniel Wang, Co-Founder and CEO of Aethir, stated: “Enterprise workloads supported by 2,304 NVIDIA B300 GPUs represent precisely the scale we targeted when designing Aethir’s compute infrastructure. Today’s announcement demonstrates that decentralized GPU infrastructure is now capable of supporting the world’s top-tier enterprise AI workloads. I am proud of the dedication shown by both the Aethir and Axe Compute teams.” The contract includes dedicated 4.8-megawatt N+1 redundant power, with the client specifying the deployment location and service standards, and features a structured payment schedule. Following the announcement, A
Bitget Launches Phase 3 “Stock God Guessing” Campaign with a Total Prize Pool of $100,000 USDT; Participation Period: April 15–22. During the campaign, both new and existing users can complete daily tasks—including logging in, depositing funds, and executing stock trades—to earn a set number of guessing opportunities. Users may use these opportunities to predict whether NVIDIA’s price will rise or fall. Points will be awarded regardless of whether the prediction is correct or incorrect. Users ranked Top 1–100 by points will receive cash vouchers worth $100–$2,500 USDT; those ranked Top 101–1,086 will receive futures contract position experience vouchers worth $50–$100 USDT. To qualify for the corresponding ranking reward, users must satisfy both the ranking and minimum point requirements. Full campaign rules are published on Bitget’s official platform. Eligible users must click the “Join Now” button to complete registration before participating.
Odaily News AI agent platform 0G Labs has announced the launch of its consumer-facing AI development platform, 0G App. Users can build and deploy applications using only natural language prompts, without writing any code, bridging the ease of use of Web2 with the infrastructure of Web3. 0G App operates on decentralized computing power and incorporates a Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) verification mechanism, enabling AI models to run in a privacy-preserving environment. It integrates capabilities for application generation, AI agent deployment, and token issuance, allowing users to complete the entire process from idea to launch within the same ecosystem.In terms of its underlying architecture, 0G App combines Intel TDX and NVIDIA H100/H200 hardware environments to achieve verifiable and privacy-preserving AI inference. It supports the operation of the open-source large language model GLM-5. Applications can be deployed with one-click access to Vercel, while data is synchronized to a decentralized storage network. (CoinMarketCap)
According to The Block, AlphaTON Capital has announced plans to raise $43 million through a strategic partnership with Vertical Data Inc. to expand its AI compute infrastructure; the transaction is expected to close in Q2 2026. AlphaTON CEO Brittany Kaiser stated that the funding will be used to deploy additional NVIDIA B300 GPUs, with the core objective of advancing the convergence of AI, digital assets, and confidential computing—and scaling up the platform’s overall compute capacity. On the business front, AlphaTON not only holds a substantial amount of TON tokens as corporate treasury assets but also actively participates in building infrastructure for the Telegram and TON ecosystems, with key investment focus areas including Cocoon, Telegram’s decentralized AI platform. Background-wise, AlphaTON was formed through the restructuring and transformation of former biotech public company Portage Biotech Inc., which had previously focused on cancer therapy research; the company completed the spin-off of its cancer therapy subsidiary in February this year.
AlphaTON Capital (NASDAQ: ATON) announced a strategic AI hardware and financing agreement with Vertical Data Inc., with a total transaction value of approximately $43 million, expected to close in Q2 2026. The agreement centers on deploying high-performance GPU clusters powered by NVIDIA’s B300 architecture. Financing will be provided through Vertical Data’s GPUfinancing.com platform via an asset-backed, non-recourse structure and includes managed infrastructure services. This expansion will support AlphaTON’s business initiatives with partners including Telegram, Gamee, Animoca Brands, and Midnight Blockchain.