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According to a PR Newswire press release, AI training environment company Plato announced the closing of its $16 million Series A funding round led by Nava Ventures, with participation from Gradient Ventures, Transpose Platform, and Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman. Nava Ventures founder Freddie Martignetti will join the board. This round brings Plato’s total funding to $19 million, following a seed round previously led by Gradient Ventures.
据 Decrypt 报道，由高盛和贝莱德前员工创立的纽约初创公司 Birch Hill 已完成 400 万美元种子轮融资，由 Multicoin Capital 领投，ParaFi Capital、Castle Island Ventures 和 Nascent 参投，公司累计融资额达 650 万美元。Birch Hill 计划在美国监管框架下，将美国公寓、农场和能源贷款上链，其 Enterprise 部门已向 FINRA 申请经纪自营商会员资格。
According to Fortune, financial AI startup Casap announced on Wednesday that it has closed a $56 million Series B round led by Base10 Partners, with strategic investments from Synchrony and Experian, bringing its total funding to $90 million.
Odaily reports: AI cloud security startup Upwind has announced the completion of a $400 million funding round led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with participation from existing investors including Greylock Partners and Craft Ventures, at a valuation of $3.8 billion. Upwind primarily provides security protection for enterprise cloud infrastructure, capable of detecting malware and suspicious activity, and expanded its platform this year to address AI-related security risks. The new funds are intended for engineering R&D as well as sales and marketing team building. (Bloomberg)
According to Bloomberg, Anthropic's planned IPO could reach a valuation of $1.5 trillion, with plans to invest approximately $800 billion in computing infrastructure that is expected to benefit TSMC, SK Hynix, and Samsung Electronics. Due to strong subscription demand and related restrictions, it has proven difficult for Asian investors to participate directly in the IPO, prompting them to turn to indirect investment channels such as crypto derivatives. According to reports, OKX and Binance have launched perpetual contracts tied to Anthropic's valuation, while perpetual contracts on the EntropyIO platform under Hyperliquid briefly implied valuations of around $1.88 trillion. However, Anthropic still faces risks including an uncertain path to profitability, high capital requirements for AI projects, and intense industry competition, and related "proxy" investments may also be influenced by factors from other sectors.
The campus is operated by ACS and has entered into a 10-year master service agreement with a new cloud service provider in California, initially providing 20 MW of critical AI compute capacity. The customer holds two five-year renewal options and a right of first offer on an additional 32 MW of capacity, bringing the total maximum capacity to 52 MW. The company expects the initial 10 MW of capacity to be energized in December 2026 and begin generating revenue.
Odaily Report: Bitget, in collaboration with Reality and Keyring, has published a research report exploring the synergies between tokenized stocks, perpetual contracts, and decentralized lending, while assessing the potential returns and risks of related strategies through simulated calculations. The report notes that the application of tokenized stocks is expanding from traditional stock trading to collateralized lending, asset management, and systematic investment strategies.The research is based on Reality's rToken, combined with stock perpetual contract hedging and onchain lending mechanisms, to explore stock basis yield strategies. Historical simulation data shows that from December 15, 2025, to October 19, 2026, the strategy index achieved annualized net returns of approximately 7% and 4% in-sample and out-of-sample, respectively, with a gross funding rate premium of approximately 11%–14%. The report also notes that financing costs, trade execution fees, market liquidity, and risk management are key factors affecting the strategy's actual returns.It is understood that Bitget and Keyring plan to jointly develop a stock basis index and build an onchain lending market based on Reality's rToken. Reality will provide exposure to tokenized stock assets, while Keyring will be responsible for developing the index methodology and building the related lending market. The index aims to capture funding rate and basis yield opportunities by combining rToken holdings with hedged positions in corresponding stock perpetual contracts, providing a new strategic pathway for the application of tokenized stocks in onchain financial scenarios.
This funding round was led by Peak XV and 137 Ventures, with Amplify, Avra, a16z, Redpoint, Sequoia, and Zero Prime participating.
According to Tech in Asia, Mirae Asset Securities (Korea)’s Hong Kong subsidiary, Mirae Asset Securities (HK), announced that it has completed an issuance of tokenized financing notes on the Solana blockchain for qualified institutional investors. The notes are denominated in US dollars, have a six-month term, and are floating-rate notes. They are part of the company’s $3 billion guaranteed structured note program (which denotes the total program size, not the issuance amount for this offering). Singapore-regulated digital market infrastructure operator Marketnode served as the authorized distributor, with support from the Solana Foundation, while Mirae Asset handled the token issuance, payment processing, and full lifecycle management. The notes were offered exclusively through a private placement to professional investors as defined under Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Ordinance, and have not been recognized or registered by the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission.
Meanwhile, the company signed a basic cooperation agreement on Lightning Network routing business with ALC, utilizing the BTC held by ALC as liquidity for its operated channels to jointly build Japan-based routing infrastructure. The raised funds will be allocated to payment infrastructure development, talent recruitment, routing business, and R&D, with a primary focus on advancing "aurora," a Lightning payment service that can integrate with merchants' existing payment systems via API.
According to Business Insider, Hyperbolic, an AI computing infrastructure startup, has completed a $30 million Series A-1 funding round led by Walden Catalyst, co-founded by Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan and former Samsung President Young Sohn, with participation from Dell Technologies Capital, General Catalyst, and others.
Odaily reports: The U.S. government has sold 4.45 million Anthropic shares seized from FTX, obtaining approximately $627 million, with the funds to be used to repay FTX creditors.According to the S-1 filing submitted by Anthropic, this batch of shares was resold to 9 buyers. Based on the valuation ahead of Anthropic's planned Nasdaq listing under the ticker symbol ANT, these shares are currently worth approximately $3.94 billion. (BeInCrypto)
Cancore raises $7.2 million in a seed round at a $60 million token valuation, led by Paper Ventures and DAO5.
Cancore, a cross-chain trading platform built on the Canton network, has completed a $7.2 million seed round. The round was conducted through Simple Agreements for Future Tokens (SAFT), corresponding to a fully diluted valuation (FDV) of $60 million for its planned CNRX token.The round was participated in by Paper Ventures, dao5, ArkStream Capital, X Ventures, MH Ventures, and Proof of Talk, with Paper Ventures and dao5 receiving the largest allocations. Wasif Rashid, co-founder and CEO of Cancore, said the company began engaging with investors in June this year, officially launched fundraising in July, and closed the round in mid-September. (The Block)
on-chain compliance platform Predicate has completed an $8 million Series A funding round, led by Blockchain Capital, with participation from Paxos, 1kx, and Tribe Capital. Predicate primarily provides pre-transaction compliance review and risk control for stablecoins, tokenized assets, and other on-chain financial products, supporting the restriction of high-risk addresses and sanctioned transactions.
Odaily reports: AI compute startup General Compute has completed a $100 million Series A funding round, led by Blackbird Ventures and Abstract Ventures, with a post-money valuation of $800 million, a significant increase from the $60 million valuation after its seed round in May this year. The funding was driven by an order from a large customer with $100 million in annual recurring revenue.General Compute focuses on AI inference compute, using specialized chips from NVIDIA competitors, and has reached a $400 million chip procurement agreement with SambaNova, with suppliers also including Positron and Cerebras. Unlike the traditional approach of building large data centers, the company deploys AI compute by leasing data center space, utilizing smaller-scale power resources, and retrofitting Bitcoin mining farms, with plans to deploy 75 megawatts of compute capacity by 2027. Amid CoreWeave's stock falling to near a 12-month low and Elon Musk's prediction that more than 200 new cloud service providers will undergo elimination and consolidation, General Compute co-founder and CEO Finn Puklowski believes that market fears of a chip-induced industry collapse are severely exaggerated, and customer demand for various chips and compute remains strong.PANews, October 27: According to reports, AI compute startup General Compute has completed a $100 million Series A funding round, led by Blackbird Ventures and Abstract Ventures, with a post-money valuation of $800 million, a significant increase from the $60 million valuation after its seed round in May this year. Currently, General Compute focuses on AI inference compute, using specialized chips from NVIDIA competitors, and has reached a $400 million chip procurement agreement with SambaNova, with suppliers also including Positron and Cerebras. (TechCrunch)
Luxor Technology, a full-stack hashrate services provider, has completed a $16 million strategic funding round led by CMT Digital, with participation from Canaan, MicroBT, Halo, Steelhead, and several angel investors. Luxor plans to use the funds to expand its agent cloud platform, AI hardware business, and hashrate derivatives trading capabilities, as well as to grow its team. The company originally served Bitcoin mining companies and is now expanding into GPU and AI server procurement, targeting opportunities arising from the convergence of the Bitcoin mining and AI compute markets. (Cointelegraph)
Odaily reports: Bonk Guy posted stating that the view that onchain trading and the Meme coin market have fallen into the worst period in history reflects a misperception within the crypto community (CT) regarding the current state of the market. Over the past 4 months, about 6 new tokens reached market caps of $100 million to $300 million or more, among which PONS started from zero and its fully diluted valuation (FDV) once reached $960 million, while the FDVs of tokens such as ANSEM, CASHCAT, AI, and STONK also all broke through $300 million at one point. In addition, dozens of new tokens surpassed $10 million in market cap, and despite the deterioration in market structure, tokens with sharp gains still occasionally emerge onchain.Bonk Guy compared the current market with previous downturn periods, noting that before the emergence of Robinhood Chain, the market went through a long stretch with almost no notable rallies; and after the launch of the TRUMP token last year and before the initial rise of BonkFun, there was also a period of about half a year during which almost no token could break through a market cap of $2 million to $5 million.He believes that although the current market is no longer in the broad rally phase seen a few months ago, this does not mean trading opportunities have disappeared. He expects the market may recover soon, even faster than most people anticipate, and suggests paying attention to tokens that have already demonstrated the ability to deliver outsized performance in the previous cycle, seeking opportunities during market pullbacks. The market is currently filled with pessimism and negative narratives, and investors should not be swayed by the noise. Historical experience shows that some previously strong tokens may not only return to their prior highs but even break through further once the next market cycle begins. The biggest opportunities often appear before market sentiment reverses and while mainstream investors have yet to change their views.
According to reports by Sifted, London-based UK AI startup 22one has reached a valuation of approximately $400 million, with backing from venture capital firms such as Sequoia Capital and General Catalyst. Founded by a former senior police officer, the company primarily develops AI tools for police departments. The report notes that the UK government is driving police modernization, providing a policy backdrop for the application of such technologies.
According to Wintermute's weekly market report, Bitcoin fell 2.43% last week, marking its third consecutive weekly decline, breaking below $82,500 and retesting $80,000 before closing at approximately $80,500. ETH dropped 3.40%, closing at around $2,330. U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded a net outflow of $636 million on Thursday, the largest single-day outflow since June, coinciding with a 2.6% drop in the Nasdaq on the same day. On the macro front, following Houthi attacks on Saudi oil infrastructure, Brent crude surged 5.66% to $116.72, with oil prices displacing AI financing as the primary market concern. Wintermute noted that as of October 18, markets price in roughly an 86% probability that the Federal Reserve will hold rates steady this Wednesday, alongside expectations for a December rate hike. The Fed's forward guidance regarding December represents the key risk. Technically, BTC must reclaim the $82,000–$82,500 zone. Should the $80,000 level fail, the next support sits at $76,000, with a breakdown likely pushing prices to just over $70,000. The firm stated it is temporarily not taking a bearish view but will remain cautious until the FOMC meeting concludes and BTC reclaims $82,500. Key upcoming events include the October 28 FOMC meeting, October 29 reports for Q3 GDP and September PCE data, and the October 30 monthly options expiration.