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According to EU-Startups, Berlin-based AI services company Integral announced the closing of an €18 million Series A financing round, co-led by Mosaic Ventures and Reid Hoffman, with Cherry Ventures, General Catalyst, and Puzzle Ventures participating. Since its founding in 2024, the company has raised over €30 million in cumulative funding. Integral specializes in providing AI-driven accounting, tax, and payroll services for SMEs. It leverages AI agents to handle invoice reconciliation, bookkeeping, payroll calculation, and tax filing, with every document reviewed and signed by licensed professionals. Currently, over 50% of its clients have achieved fully automated accounting processes, shortening the monthly accounting cycle from several weeks to just a few hours.
According to Cointelegraph, the U.S. Senate failed to advance a procedural vote on the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act (CLARITY Act) on Tuesday. Bernstein analysts anticipate that the SEC and CFTC will subsequently embark on "proactive and swift" rulemaking to compensate for the time lost during prior negotiations. The forthcoming regulations are expected to cover: classification criteria for token offerings, developer protections for DeFi and self-custody protocols, innovation exemptions for equity tokenization, an expedited approval pathway for physical asset perpetual futures, and swap designation rules for federal sports event contracts. Bernstein pointed out that the CLARITY Act was originally intended to provide the industry with institutional safeguards against "shifts in political winds," and its defeat has once again cast doubt on regulatory certainty. Analysts also noted that the likelihood of a reconsidered vote on the bill remains low.
Bernstein analysts said that after the U.S. Senate failed to pass the procedural vote on the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) are expected to accelerate the development of digital asset regulatory rules.The analysts expect the new rules to cover the classification of fundraising tokens, protections for DeFi and self-custody protocol developers, innovation exemptions for equity tokenization, approval of real-world asset perpetual futures, and adjustments to swap classification rules for federal sports event contracts. (Cointelegraph)
According to EU-Startups, Lyon-based AI-driven Vulnerability Operations Center (VOC) Hackuity has announced the completion of a €16 million funding round (approximately $19 million), led by Forgepoint Capital International alongside Bright Pixel, Bpifrance, and Seventure Partners, bringing its cumulative funding to €32 million. The funds will be allocated toward product innovation, AI capability enhancements, and expansion into European and Asian markets. Hackuity’s platform integrates data from over 130 security tools, automating vulnerability prioritization and remediation through a proprietary risk scoring engine. It currently serves more than 6,000 users, protects over 2 million assets, and manages 1 billion security findings, with enterprise clients including ENGIE, BPCE, and Orange Cyberdefense.
PPP prediction market monitoring shows that on Polymarket, the probability of "OpenAI's valuation will reach $1 trillion by the end of 2026" has risen to 82%, up 20% in 24 hoursIf from the event creation date through December 31, 2026, the OpenAI NPM Price published by Nasdaq Private Market corresponds to a private market valuation that at any point reaches or exceeds the target valuation set by the event, it resolves as "Yes"; otherwise, it resolves as "No."NPM publishes data only on trading days and updates it at 1:00 PM ET the following day. If by January 1, 2027, relevant data has still not been published, the event may remain open at the latest until January 4 at 11:59 PM.If OpenAI conducts an IPO or direct listing during this period, then in addition to the pre-listing NPM valuation, the valuation corresponding to the official offering price and the public market market cap from after listing through December 31, 2026, will also be referenced. Public market cap is calculated as "the highest/lowest official trading price on a trading day × the total number of outstanding common shares at that time."In simple terms: as long as before the end of 2026, OpenAI has at any point reached the valuation threshold set by the event according to NPM or official post-listing market data, it counts as "Yes."Join the PPP signal push community to stay one step ahead and seize the opportunity.
Odaily reports: Prediction market platform Kalshi is seeking to raise at least $750 million at a $40 billion valuation, doubling its $22 billion valuation from six months ago. The platform was approved as a designated contract market by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) in 2021.As of September 4, Kalshi's trading volume over the past 30 days reached $14.1 billion, while Polymarket's stood at $3.1 billion, with Kalshi accounting for approximately 82% of their combined trading volume. More than 80% of Kalshi's trading volume comes from sports events. (Bitcoin.com News)
Odaily News: U.S. Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren stated that she still hopes to push a crypto regulatory bill into law, but does not support the current version of the Clarity Act.Warren said the Clarity Act is Washington's first opportunity to achieve "meaningful crypto regulation," but any bill must include several core elements: regulating public officials' crypto investments, protecting national security and consumers, and strengthening the fight against illicit finance and terrorist financing.Her stance could become more critical next year. If Democrats regain control of the Senate after the November election, Warren could become chair of the Senate Banking Committee, one of the key bodies for digital asset regulatory legislation. The article notes that Kalshi prediction markets currently show a 52% probability of Democrats retaking the Senate.When asked whether she would lead crypto legislation if she headed the Banking Committee, Warren said she would be willing. She said she is willing to sit down with Democrats, Republicans, and the industry to craft a crypto bill that protects national security, protects the economy, and reduces corruption.
OpenAI is discussing a new round of private financing with investors, targeting a valuation of approximately $1.2 trillion to prepare for an IPO. The company's annualized revenue has already exceeded $40 billion, but CEO Sam Altman stated that the listing may not occur earlier than 2027.
A BIS research report shows that Bitcoin on-chain transfer values may contain errors of up to six times due to differing statistical methodologies, and traditional market capitalization calculation methods may also deviate from actual figures by up to four times.
Dragonfly managing partner Haseeb Qureshi stated that price movements in onchain Pre-IPO derivatives reflect interesting market expectations for AI lab valuations. He noted that Jacob Coxon's earlier pessimistic remarks about AI risk actually pushed related lab valuations higher, arguing that "scaring everyone seems to be good for business."Haseeb said that after Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei proposed "slowing the frontier race," related valuations were not significantly affected, which is not surprising, since reducing the model race means training spending declines, thereby lowering major capital expenditures. However, after David Sacks publicly criticized Dario, Anthropic's valuation was largely unaffected, while OpenAI's valuation declined, and he raised questions about the reason for this.
According to TheEnergyMag, Hut 8 has filed for a nearly $399 million construction project at its Beacon Point AI data center campus near Corpus Christi, Texas. The project involves a data center building of approximately 657,000 square feet, expected to commence construction on September 28 and be completed by November 2027. The campus has currently signed two 15-year leases for 352 MW each, bringing the total contracted capacity to 704 MW, with base lease contract values totaling approximately $19.6 billion; the initial phase has secured $4.25 billion in financing support.
According to EU-Startups, Rome-based Physical AI cybersecurity company Exein has announced the completion of a new funding round totaling €234 million (approximately $270 million), valuing the firm at €1.4 billion (around $1.7 billion) and making it Europe's most highly valued cybersecurity startup. The round was led by Headline, with participation from Sofina, Goldman Sachs, the European Investment Bank, KfW Capital, and T.Capital, while J.P. Morgan concurrently expanded its revolving credit facility.
According to reports from Bitcoin.com, the National Bank of the Kyrgyz Republic (NBKR) signed a memorandum of understanding with blockchain security company Certik on September 9. The two parties will collaborate in areas such as cybersecurity, digital asset custody, anti-money laundering (AML), and counter-terrorism financing (CFT) to jointly advance the security development of the country's digital currency, the Digital Som. Under the agreement, NBKR will deploy Certik's monitoring tools to implement 24/7 compliance monitoring of digital assets, and provide technical training and knowledge transfer to central bank personnel. Previously, Certik has provided technical advisory support to U.S. regulators and the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS).
Odaily reports: The company plans to issue perpetual preferred shares under the ticker MORE, with a fundraising target of £15 million to £25 million and a minimum raise of £10 million. Listing admission requires support from three market makers. Holders will receive cumulative weekly dividends and liquidation preference but will not have voting rights, and the company may redeem the shares. As of mid-2026, SWC held 2,878 Bitcoins; following High Court approval of its capital reduction, the company has £132.5 million in distributable reserves available for payment.
Odaily News: Bitget Wallet has announced its integration with RWA protocol Reality, opening trading access to over 1,700 rToken tokenized US stocks. Through this integration, users can trade tokenized US stocks 24/7 on Arbitrum and Morph without needing to open an overseas brokerage account, submit KYC, complete a W-8BEN form, or arrange a wire transfer. Dividends generated by the corresponding underlying assets will be credited to Bitget Wallet in USDT at a 1:1 ratio.Reality is a compliant tokenized asset issuance platform, licensed under El Salvador's digital asset issuance law framework. Its issued rTokens are backed 1:1 by real US stocks, currently supporting over 1,700 tokenized US stocks including rTSM, rNVDA, rAAPL, and rQQQ, covering approximately 95% of US market trading volume. rTokens can connect directly to liquidity across all US markets including Nasdaq and the NYSE, with underlying assets compliantly custodied by FINRA-licensed broker-dealer Alpaca Securities, maintaining a reserve ratio exceeding 100%, with third-party CPA firms issuing daily real-time Proof of Reserve (PoR). This integration will further advance Bitget Wallet's Everyday Finance strategy, aiming to enable users to seamlessly conduct everyday transactions of traditional financial assets through an on-chain wallet.
According to Bloomberg, startup Model ML, which provides AI software services to investment banks and other financial institutions, is negotiating to raise over $100 million at a valuation exceeding $1 billion. The funding round has not yet closed, and specific details remain subject to change. Sources familiar with the matter indicated that the fundraising amount could increase to $150 million depending on investor interest.
According to TechStartups.com, Dutch AI chip startup Euclyd has completed an over €200 million (approximately $231 million) Series A funding round, co-led by Samsung, Somerset Capital Partners, EQT’s Scaleup Europe Fund, and Innovation Industries. Founded in 2024 by Bernardo Kastrup and Atul Sinha, Euclyd is headquartered in Eindhoven and focuses on AI inference, aiming to replace GPU solutions with proprietary chips and memory architectures to reduce energy consumption for AI inference and lower cost per token. Former ASML CEO Peter Wennink will serve as the company's board chairman.
According to CoinDesk, stablecoin payment infrastructure company Velocity announced the completion of an expansion round of its Series A financing, adding $10 million to bring the total round financing to $48 million, with a post-money valuation of $200 million. Investors in this expansion round include Visa Ventures, Circle Ventures, Ripple, Haun Ventures, Translink Capital, and Mirana Ventures, following the announcement of the initial Series A financing in July this year. Velocity is dedicated to providing stablecoin settlement, liquidity, and treasury management infrastructure to payment companies and banks, enabling them to integrate into blockchain payment networks without replacing existing systems. The head of Global Growth Products and Strategic Partnerships at Visa stated that stablecoins are reshaping how value flows within the Visa ecosystem, and Velocity is building the related infrastructure to drive the widespread adoption of stablecoin payments.
According to Decrypt, Solana treasury company DeFi Development Corp (DFDV) announced the acquisition of an additional 55,491 SOL tokens (approximately $5.78 million), bringing its total SOL holdings to approximately 2.389 million, representing a roughly 2% increase from August 27. Meanwhile, the company announced the launch of a $300 million ATM program for CHAD variable-rate Series C perpetual preferred shares, with New York broker R.F. Lafferty & Co. acting as the sole sales agent, and the proceeds intended primarily to further increase SOL holdings. The company noted that issuance will only occur when the price is at or above a $10 par value per share, with no mandatory selling requirements. CHAD's first issuance was completed on September 8, raising approximately $11 million, with Fundstrat founder Tom Lee participating in the subscription. As CHAD comprises non-convertible preferred shares, any subsequent issuances will not dilute the equity of common shareholders.
According to Fortune, New York-based payments company Fin.com has announced the closing of a $20 million seed round, completed in August and led by Expa and Uber co-founder Garrett Camp, with participation from Coinbase Ventures, Tenet Fund, the founder of Figure, Mesh founder Bam Azizi, Second Sight Ventures, and Gulf and African sovereign and royal family offices. Founded by Bangladeshi founder Nabeel Alamgir and Pakistani founder Mustafa Dar, Fin.com aims to solve the "last mile" challenge of converting stablecoins into local bank accounts or digital wallets, providing white-label payment infrastructure to financial institutions, consumer platforms, and prediction markets. Its client platforms collectively serve over 800 million users. The company focuses on the South Asian, African, and Middle Eastern markets, and currently maintains offices in New York, Las Vegas, Dubai, Dhaka, Bangalore, and Lahore.