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According to Techstartups, Microsoft had explored acquiring AI programming tools company Cursor but ultimately did not proceed with the deal. Subsequently, SpaceX swiftly secured an option to acquire Cursor at a $60 billion valuation. Cursor has now become one of the key players in the AI programming space, benefiting from strong developer demand for automated programming and productivity tools—where OpenAI and Anthropic are fiercely competing. Meanwhile, Microsoft faces another set of pressures, with its stock down 10% this year, underperforming its peers in the hyperscale data center sector.
RealGo announced that it has completed over $3.5 million in funding, with its early-stage and strategic funding rounds supported by institutions and strategic partners including Animoca Brands, Cogitent Ventures, X21 Digital, Notch VC, and Becker Ventures. RealGo stated that it will use these funds to advance infrastructure development for Meme 3.0, driving the evolution of memes from mere topical buzz into assets that are captureable, collectible, battleable, social, monetizable, and truly owned by users.
Sooth Labs, an AI prediction laboratory founded by former Meta executives and a CMU professor team, is completing a $50 million funding round at a $335 million valuation, led by Felicis Ventures. Yann LeCun and Jeff Dean are participating as individual investors, and Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth serves as an advisor. The company specializes in multimodal AI event probability prediction, serving institutions in finance, defense, insurance, and other sectors, and has already provided probability predictions for events such as the WHO pandemic and Anthropic's IPO.
According to Bloomberg, Sooth Labs, an AI lab founded by former Meta employees, is raising approximately $50 million in funding, led by Felicis Ventures, with a post-money valuation of about $335 million. The company plans to develop AI models that predict the probability of specific geopolitical and market events, offering these capabilities to enterprises. Sooth Labs has also received support from Yann LeCun and Google’s Chief Scientist Jeff Dean, and Meta’s CTO Andrew Bosworth serves as an advisor.
According to an official announcement, Robinhood has received in-principle approval (IPA) from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) to launch brokerage services in Singapore, covering securities trading, exchange-traded derivatives, custody, product financing, and collective investment schemes. Robinhood stated that Singapore will serve as its Asia-Pacific headquarters to support its international expansion. Its subsidiary, Bitstamp Asia Pte. Ltd., already holds a Major Payment Institution (MPI) license issued by the MAS. Note that in-principle approval is not equivalent to a formal license; Robinhood Singapore Pte. Ltd. must still meet relevant conditions before receiving final approval to commence operations.
Odaily News: Daniel Edrisian, a former engineer from the OpenAI Codex team, has announced his departure to found AI hardware company Blackstar Computers. The company has completed a $12 million seed funding round led by Abstract, with participation from SV Angel, Naval Ravikant, Chapter One, and Timeless.Blackstar positions itself as a new type of computing device, aiming to redefine the computing experience from the hardware, software, and interaction levels. Edrisian stated that while current software development is mature, further enhancement of human-AI interaction requires innovation at the operating system level. The company currently has a team of about 8 people, distributed between San Francisco and Shenzhen, and has not yet launched a public product.
Odaily News New Fire Technology (1611.HK) announced on April 22 that it will acquire the investment team and trading system of Li Lin's family office, Avenir Group, for $1.6 million. Following the acquisition, New Fire Technology plans to launch a Bitcoin-denominated asset management service named Alpha BTC, aiming to attract investments exceeding 10,000 Bitcoins within a year, valued at approximately $760 million. The strategy will generate returns through derivative trading such as options, using Bitcoin or the IBIT ETF as underlying assets. Target clients include crypto-native investors and local Hong Kong enterprises. As of the end of 2025, Avenir Group held 18.3 million shares of BlackRock iShares Bitcoin Trust, valued at $908 million.
According to official news, BitMart has recently launched a TradFi aggregation page, consolidating various traditional financial assets such as stocks, indices, precious metals, forex, and commodities onto a single page. Users can now view market data, filter targets, and execute trades all within one interface, eliminating the need to switch between different sections.The page has undergone structural adjustments centered around multi-asset trading scenarios, unifying previously dispersed asset entry points and simplifying the trading path. By optimizing the page layout and operational logic, asset switching and order placement processes have become smoother, thereby enhancing overall trading efficiency to a certain extent.
JackYi, founder of Liquid Capital, posted on X: “The recent wave of failures among crypto VCs and projects had one core cause: funding was largely spent on maintaining teams that built useless Web3 products. The biggest misconception was trying to replicate Web2 products. In essence, Web3 is a financial industry—it doesn’t require re-creating Web2 products. Historically, the most successful crypto companies have all been financial products: stablecoins, exchanges, payment solutions, etc. Now, with the AI era arriving, two things are clear: first, massive fundraising and large teams are no longer necessary; second, AI + finance presents a new opportunity. We believe exceptional founders, backed by just a few elite team members, can build world-class companies—this represents the single largest opportunity in today’s primary market.”
According to Bloomberg, cryptocurrency venture capital firm Blockchain Capital is concurrently raising two new funds, with a combined target size of $700 million—its seventh early-stage fund and its second growth fund. Sources familiar with the matter revealed that the firm has already begun deploying part of the newly raised capital, and the entire fundraising round is expected to be completed within five to six months.
Odaily News Keel Infrastructure and Hive Digital Technologies saw their stock prices rise on April 22. Keel completed the sale of its Paso Pe mining facility in Paraguay, securing $13 million in funds, with the aim of fully exiting the Bitcoin mining business and shifting its focus to high-performance computing and AI development in North America. Hive Digital Technologies completed a $115 million private placement, with the funds to be used for purchasing GPUs and developing data centers. The stock prices of the two companies have risen by over 40% and 31% respectively in the past month. Additionally, Core Scientific announced plans to issue $3.3 billion in high-yield bonds to fund its transition to AI infrastructure.
Odaily News SpaceX stated in its IPO filing documents that orbital AI computing, along with lunar and Martian industrialization efforts, are still in their early stages and involve significant technical complexities, potentially preventing them from achieving commercialization. Elon Musk once called space AI computing an obvious choice, believing that orbit could become the lowest-cost location for AI within two to three years. The document warns that orbital AI data centers operate in harsh and unpredictable space environments, where system failures may occur. Additionally, delays in the development of Starship could also limit the company's growth strategy. SpaceX currently targets a valuation of approximately $1.75 trillion and plans to raise $75 billion in the coming months.
According to Reuters, the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) stated that it has jointly searched eight London locations suspected of operating illegal peer-to-peer cryptocurrency trading activities, together with tax authorities and police, and issued cease-and-desist letters to each site. The FCA said evidence obtained during on-site inspections supports multiple ongoing criminal investigations. This operation was conducted under anti-money laundering (AML) and counter-terrorist financing (CTF) regulations, aiming to prevent such operators from providing criminals with channels to transfer, conceal, and use illicit funds. Currently, no peer-to-peer cryptocurrency exchange operators are registered with the FCA in the UK.
Odaily News: International gold and silver prices have experienced a slight pullback. Among them, gold (XAUT) saw a minor 24-hour decline of 1.10%, currently quoted at $4,752.65; silver (XAG) fell by 1.93%, currently quoted at $77.78. Despite signs of temporary easing in the international situation, market risk aversion sentiment remains strong, driving increased activity in both trading and open interest for related contracts.According to CoinGlass data, the 24-hour trading volume for Gate XAU contracts reached $197 million, a sequential increase of 68.68%, with open interest reaching $22.11 million. The 24-hour trading volume for Gate XAG contracts reached $143 million, a substantial sequential increase of 108.06%, with open interest reaching $15.30 million.Gate pioneered the metal contract trading sector, offering 7×24 hour continuous trading, providing users with greater strategic flexibility and asset management efficiency in volatile market conditions. Gate contracts now cover a wide range of traditional financial assets including stocks, metals, forex, indices, and commodities, supporting trading of core assets such as gold, silver, and globally popular stocks. Gate continues to build a more efficient and professional multi-asset one-stop trading platform for global users.
According to The Information, Tencent and Alibaba are in talks to invest in DeepSeek, which is valued at over $20 billion.
According to TechCrunch, AI research lab NeoCognition has announced a $40 million seed funding round, co-led by Cambium Capital and Walden Catalyst Ventures, with participation from Vista Equity Partners and others. Founded by Professor Yu Su of The Ohio State University and others, the company’s core focus is enabling AI agents to build environment-specific “world models” through real-world operational experience—rather than relying solely on general pre-training—to improve task execution reliability. NeoCognition currently targets the enterprise market and plans to offer embeddable AI agent systems for SaaS companies.
Yi Lihua, founder of Liquid Capital (formerly LD Capital), stated that the current cryptocurrency market rally is still ongoing. However, compared to the U.S. stock market’s S&P 500 hitting new highs and MicroStrategy’s continued aggressive Bitcoin purchases, this Bitcoin rally is relatively weak overall and exhibits clear characteristics of a bear-market rebound. He noted that his team has recently focused on analyzing MicroStrategy’s risks, concluding that its strategy of aggressively raising funds to continuously buy Bitcoin may be effective in the short term but poses medium-term risks—especially amid broader macro-financial risks. JackYi also said the team is preparing for potentially major opportunities, adding that such opportunities in the crypto space often emerge during bear markets.
SpaceX announced today that it has reached a cooperation agreement with AI-powered programming startup Cursor, which has granted SpaceX the right to acquire Cursor later this year for $6 billion—or pay $1 billion to advance their collaboration. According to reports, Cursor’s developer, Anysphere, closed a $400,000 pre-seed funding round in April 2022, co-led by Alameda Research and Heroic Ventures. Alameda invested $200,000 in Anysphere, acquiring approximately 5% equity; this stake was sold at its original price during FTX’s bankruptcy liquidation. Had it not been sold, the stake would now be worth roughly $3 billion.
Odaily News According to Etherealize's latest research report, which proposes the "Productive Money" theory, if Ethereum captures the combined monetary premium of approximately $31 trillion currently held by gold and Bitcoin, its implied price could exceed $250,000, far above the current level of around $2,300.The report points out that ETH not only possesses traditional monetary attributes such as scarcity, verifiability, and censorship resistance but can also generate an annualized yield of about 2%–4% through staking, achieving an "interest-bearing" monetary characteristic, thereby distinguishing it from non-productive assets like gold and Bitcoin.Furthermore, within the DeFi system, ETH serves a triple demand source as a "collateral asset + fee-burning mechanism + staking lock-up," forming a mechanism for supply contraction and value accumulation. The report believes that with the development of on-chain finance and asset tokenization, ETH is expected to simultaneously possess the dual attributes of a "store of value + productive asset."However, the report also notes that ETH's path to achieving this valuation still faces multiple uncertainties including regulation, technology, and competition. Its long-term value revaluation depends on the market's recognition of its monetary properties.
Odaily News: HIVE Digital Technologies, a technology company specializing in crypto mining and high-performance computing hosting, announced that its subsidiary has completed a private placement of $115 million in 0% interest exchangeable senior notes (maturing in 2031). The offering included an over-allotment option of $15 million, indicating strong institutional demand.HIVE Digital stated that the net proceeds from this financing are approximately $109.5 million. The funds will be primarily used for capital expenditures (including GPU procurement), data center construction, general corporate purposes, and to support its AI infrastructure expansion strategy. The initial conversion price for the notes is approximately $2.57 per share, representing a premium of about 17.5% over the pre-issuance stock price, with a capped hedge price premium reaching 125%. This zero-interest financing introduces a new group of institutional investors while helping achieve its 2026 growth targets under reduced capital costs.