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White Hair Stock Oracle Serenity posted on X platform: "The divergence between fundamental demand and valuations has now reached an extreme level. On one hand, procurement from Super Micro Computer (SMCI) to SpaceX (SPCX) is accelerating; on the other hand, stock prices from Applied Optoelectronics (AAOI) to data center hosting providers are collapsing. I believe that after the earnings season, October 2026 will be seen as another (buy-the-dip) opportunity similar to the 'DeepSeek shock' or the 'April tariff panic.'
Odaily report: As the financing models of Bitcoin treasury companies Strategy and Strive come under pressure, related companies are attracting investors by offering higher-yield preferred stock to sustain their crypto asset accumulation strategies. Strategy's STRC preferred stock, which carries a 12% annualized dividend rate, has not been issued again since its price decline in June. The company is now seeking to promote daily dividend payments and continues to raise funds by issuing additional common stock to buy Bitcoin, resulting in equity dilution for existing shareholders.Bitcoin treasury company Strive disclosed that it has completed a $630 million preferred stock offering, with the fundraising scale about 25% higher than initially planned. The preferred stock carries a nominal annualized yield of 15% and was issued at a discount, with an effective yield of nearly 17%, far exceeding the yield on one-year high-grade U.S. Treasury bonds and approaching the returns on distressed debt. (Bloomberg)
Odaily reports: According to people familiar with the matter, as volatility in the data center sector intensifies, DayOne Data Centers is reassessing its US IPO plans and may delay its listing or reduce the offering size. The people said that Singapore-based DayOne has been waiting for the right moment to launch its IPO and is also considering postponing the offering until the market stabilizes. Other options include scaling down the offering to raise $2.5 billion to $3 billion, roughly half of its original target.The people said DayOne is still engaging with potential investors and hopes to move ahead with the listing as soon as market conditions permit. It was previously reported that the company initially considered raising up to $5 billion through an IPO as early as the fourth quarter, targeting a valuation of about $20 billion. The people said discussions are ongoing, DayOne has not made a final decision, and the company may still choose to proceed with the IPO in the coming weeks. DayOne declined to comment.
According to TechCrunch, robotics startup Eka Robotics announced it has closed a $150 million Series A round, reaching a post-money valuation of $1.45 billion, co-led by a16z and F-Prime. The company was founded by MIT professor Pulkit Agrawal and former Google DeepMind researcher Tuomas Haarnoja. Eka has developed a manipulation architecture that combines force-sensitive grippers with a "vision-force-action" model, differing from the mainstream "vision-language-action" models. By leveraging physics simulators and large-scale reinforcement learning training, the model can generate thousands of hours of robotic experience in just minutes. According to the company, its robots can grasp approximately 1,500 objects weighing no more than 1 kilogram per hour (compared to about 600 for humans), with a success rate exceeding 95%. The gripper hardware costs less than $1,000, with a rated lifespan of 5 million cycles, aiming to meet the industry standard of 20 million cycles for industrial robotic arms.
According to CNBC, Arda, an AI manufacturing startup founded by former OpenAI research chief and ex-Palantir head of product and engineering Bob McGrew, has announced the completion of a $230 million funding round at a $1.5 billion valuation. The round was led by Altimeter Capital, Accel, and Khosla Ventures. Arda develops AI software and agents for manufacturing engineers, helping them build and adjust assembly lines faster. Its AI models have been deployed at defense technology company Anduril. McGrew noted that when product designs change, it takes just one day to retrain workers, whereas adjusting automated production lines typically requires three to six months. Arda runs its software using a combination of proprietary, open-source, and select frontier models, with robotics set to be included in its next product roadmap. Co-founders include Augustus Odena, Alex Mark, and Jakob Frick. Apoorv Agrawal of Altimeter stated that the global manufacturing industry amounts to $16 trillion, with approximately $3 trillion in the United States. McGrew joined OpenAI in 2017 and departed in 2024.
The Blockchain Association (@BlockchainAssn) posted on the X platform that the association has submitted a comment letter to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) regarding the proposed Regulation Crypto Assets. Previously, the committee led by SEC Chair Paul Atkins had proposed exemptions for startups and fundraising activities, as well as a safe harbor mechanism to clarify when tokens are no longer considered investment contracts. The main recommendations in the letter include: • Establish clear objective criteria: Provide non-exclusive indicators to determine when an issuer’s core managerial efforts have ended, such as open-sourcing the source code or the absence of an entity capable of unilaterally reviewing transactions. • Link liability to control: Project developers shall only be responsible for areas within their control, excluding third-party applications and community activities; exchanges, liquidity providers, and other entities relying in good faith on SEC filings by projects shall be protected. • Create a safe harbor for existing tokens: Qualified third parties such as trading platforms may file for already-issued tokens, and such filing shall not be construed as acknowledging that the tokens were once securities. • Increase exemption limits: Raise the startup exemption cap to $10 million, excluding airdrops and network rewards from the limit; raise the fundraising exemption cap to $150 million, and allow on-chain transparency to substitute audited financial statements. • Strengthen federal preemption: Satisfy
Ethereum Institutional has announced the appointment of David Duong as its US Lead, responsible for driving collaboration with US institutional investors and helping institutions deepen their participation in building the Ethereum ecosystem. David Duong previously served as Global Head of Investment Research at Coinbase, where he led crypto market research for the exchange's institutional clients, covering areas such as macroeconomic analysis, valuation models, and market structure. He also spent 17 years in sell-side macro strategy research at HSBC, Santander, and Deutsche Bank.
Odaily Report: The Blockchain Association has submitted a comment letter to the SEC regarding its "crypto asset regulation" proposal, recommending raising the startup exemption cap to $10 million, the fundraising exemption to $150 million (supporting on-chain transparency as an alternative to audits, with airdrops excluded from the count), and establishing a third-party filing safe harbor for existing tokens.The Blockchain Association calls for clear, objective decentralization standards for tokens to shed their "investment contract" status (such as open-source code and the absence of unilateral review rights), while strengthening federal regulatory preemption over state-level legislation, and supporting 24/7 exchange trading and self-custody.
Nvidia is in talks to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in Australian AI cloud service provider Firmus. (The Information)
Elon Musk revealed that SpaceX and Tesla have formed a special committee to evaluate a merger, with the two companies combined valued at approximately $3.5 trillion, and AI superintelligence serving as the core of potential synergies.
A Fox Business crypto reporter posted on X that the comment period for the SEC's "Reg Crypto" proposal closes today, but an SEC spokesperson said the Commission will continue to accept public comments after the comment period ends. The proposal would establish a new fundraising exemption for crypto issuers raising funds in the United States.
Odaily reports: Asset management firm Bitwise Asset Management and the Hyperliquid Policy Center submitted comment letters to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Monday, calling for changes to proposed crypto rules to clarify token classification, airdrops, and secondary market trading rules.The SEC's proposed Regulation Crypto Assets would establish exemptions for qualifying crypto fundraising and provide a conditional safe harbor for tokens related to investment contracts. Bitwise is asking for clear standards by which investment managers can determine whether a token is subject to securities laws.The Hyperliquid Policy Center is asking for an expansion of the safe harbor's scope and for clear rules on airdrops that reward network participants and on token buybacks. The organization also wants the SEC to clarify whether unregistered intermediaries can facilitate token trading, and whether tokens can be freely traded through on-chain protocols.Former SEC enforcement official John Reed Stark and Duke University finance scholar Lee Reiners, meanwhile, are calling for the proposal to be withdrawn, arguing that it exceeds the SEC's statutory authority and weakens investor protection. The SEC will decide whether to revise, adopt, or withdraw the rule after the public comment period ends, and the final rule must take effect after a Commission vote. (Cointelegraph)
Odaily reports: Crypto researcher Stacy Muur has compiled a list of 82 digital asset projects and protocols said to have shut down in 2026, including Balancer, Radiant Capital, Neon EVM, Step Finance, and others, spanning DeFi, blockchain infrastructure, and Web3 gaming.The shutdowns were driven by declining revenue, exhausted funding, and security incidents. Earlier this year, Bitcoin's price briefly fell below $60,000, retreating from an all-time high of over $126,000 in October 2025, adding financial pressure on projects.When Ethereum Layer 2 network Blast announced its shutdown, it stated that the project had no "credible path to economic viability." Step Finance shut down following a major treasury exploit, while Radiant Capital announced the end of operations after failing to recover from a 2024 exploit.An August study by DeFiLlama showed that 100 crypto projects had announced shutdowns in 2026, 40 of which occurred in the preceding 90 days; the most common reason was product-market mismatch, followed by exhausted funding, insufficient revenue, and pivots to other products. The projects involved raised a combined total of approximately $1 billion and generated $250 million in cumulative fees, with 9 individual projects each raising over $50 million. (Cointelegraph)
Odaily reports: Abu Dhabi-based listed esports company NIP Group has announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire Bitcoin mining equipment with a total hashrate of approximately 4.47 EH/s, bringing its total deployed hashrate to approximately 13.85 EH/s. The transaction is valued at up to $27.3 million, and the company will issue up to 247.1 million Class A ordinary shares to the seller.NIP Group expects that once all related equipment is deployed, the mining farm's monthly output will reach approximately 195 BTC, up from its previous target of 160, valued at approximately $16 million at then-current prices. The equipment is already running at hosting facilities and can immediately increase Bitcoin output upon completion of the transaction.NIP Group launched its Bitcoin mining business in July 2025 and has been gradually scaling its hashrate to higher levels. The company said the additional hashrate will serve its digital infrastructure strategy, and it plans to expand into AI, high-performance computing, and gaming applications. (Bitcoin.com News)
Odaily reports: Optimum has announced that its block propagation software mump2p has officially launched on the Ethereum mainnet. ether.fi previously offered the software as an optional feature, but has now mandated its adoption across all 12 of its node operators. Currently, a total of 16 node operators are running mump2p in production environments, collectively managing approximately 22,000 validator keys and over 1.4 million staked ETH, accounting for more than 3% of Ethereum's total staked supply. Partners include Blockdaemon, Everstake, P2P.org, Stakefish, and Bitcoin Suisse.mump2p operates as a sidecar gateway, rather than replacing Ethereum's default GossipSub, it layers on top of libp2p and uses random linear network coding technology. Optimum claims that mump2p achieves block arrival speeds 2.42 times faster than GossipSub, with arrival time variance reduced by approximately 7.88 times. Optimum is led by MIT professor Muriel Médard and launched its private testnet in June 2025. The company previously completed an $11 million seed round led by 1kx and plans to expand to other high-throughput blockchains beyond Ethereum.
Bitcoin Treasuries posted that Strive (ASST) is pushing for the second spot on the Bitcoin treasury rankings, with a funding round of $700 million that was 2x oversubscribed. As of now, cumulative Bitcoin treasury holdings have reached 36,818 BTC. SATS has begun trading. @GrafYves, @TheOtherParker_, and @TylerCompiler will provide analysis on this, and the discussion also touches on whether STRC has a pricing discrepancy relative to SATA.
According to Fortune, the New York startup Mural, founded by former Palantir engineers, has secured $15 million in funding. The company aims to offer businesses a unified international payments management platform, reducing the complexity of simultaneously managing banks, payment service providers, and disparate regulatory requirements during cross-border transfers.
ARK Invest has released an update to its open-source Tesla valuation model, projecting that Tesla will be worth approximately $4,400 per share by 2031. A Monte Carlo simulation based on 32 independent variables shows a bear case of around $3,300 per share and a bull case of around $5,000 per share, corresponding to annualized share price gains of 53% and 66%, respectively, with the base case implying an annualized return of approximately 62%.Under the base case, ARK Invest expects Tesla's total revenue to reach approximately $1.45 trillion by 2031, with EBITDA of about $902 billion and a market capitalization of approximately $17.5 trillion.To support the development of its AI and robotics businesses, the model also assumes that Tesla's cumulative AI infrastructure spending will increase from approximately $7 billion at the end of 2025 to approximately $225 billion by the end of 2031. Robotaxi is expected to become Tesla's primary source of value, contributing approximately 80% of enterprise value by 2031. The humanoid robot Optimus will also become an important growth engine, with Tesla's cumulative external sales of Optimus robots reaching approximately 1 million units by 2031, and revenue from robotics-as-a-service (RaaS) and related businesses amounting to approximately $212 billion.However, ARK Invest cautions that these valuations depend on multiple assumptions, including the pace of autonomous driving commercialization, the maturity of robotics technology, profit margins, and capital efficiency. Actual results may differ significantly from these projections. The model is for reference only and does not constitute investment advice.
Odaily reports: Stablecoin issuer Tether's investment arm Tether Capital has announced its participation in AI chip company Tenstorrent's $1.5 billion Series E funding round, valuing Tenstorrent at $6.2 billion post-funding. Tenstorrent, led by chip architect Jim Keller, primarily develops high-performance AI processors, server systems, and software, aiming to provide open AI computing infrastructure and reduce developers' reliance on the proprietary hardware and cloud services of a handful of large tech companies.Tenstorrent plans to use this round of funding to expand production and deployment of its Galaxy server systems, advance R&D in AI chips and CPU technology, and expand its global commercial operations. The company's technology already serves enterprises including Samsung and LG, with applications spanning large language models and video generation, among other fields.
Brad Gerstner, founder of Altimeter Capital and a key driving force behind the Trump Account program, said that the relevant team is pushing legislation to expand Trump Account eligibility to people under 40 and allow funds to be used for retirement, education, and entrepreneurship. The expansion is expected to cover about 100 million additional people, and related legislation may be introduced in the coming months.Brad Gerstner expects that by the end of 2027, total private donations to Trump Accounts could reach $100 billion. Previously, Elon Musk announced plans to gift one SpaceX share to every American child in 2027, with the total value estimated at nearly $11 billion based on current valuations. The shares will be distributed through the account program.Currently, Trump Accounts are primarily aimed at U.S. citizens under 18. Funds in the accounts will be invested in the stock market, and beneficiaries can use them for education, home purchases, entrepreneurship, and other purposes after turning 18. However, the plan to expand eligibility still awaits legislative progress. (New York Post)